Maintenance Fitter

Job description

Job responsibilities

4.2 Management and Leadership

There is a regular responsibility for ongoing training and teaching of apprentices and trainees in their core subjects. i.e Electrical/Mechanical trade practices,. And other trade practices, and other staff specialisms, i. e decontamination, medical gases, welding etc.

• Coach and mentor for other junior staff, ie apprentices and maintenance assistant

Financial Responsibility

Responsible for the installation, repair and maintenance of the building fabric, physical assets and machinery throughout the Trust

• Accountability for appropriate use and allocation of stock issued.

Information Management

Make professional judgements involving a arrange of facts or situation, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options

• Produces engineering plant reports using computer software, including the management and storage/retrieval of information and records
• Reviews all capital schemes with respect to compliance and maintainability .
• Communicates technical information with specialists and non-specialists.
• Communicates technical issues to non-clinical staff in emergency situations
• Communicates instructions, directs, mentors and guides junior staff to support their personal development
• Works from technical specifications and drawings associated with building services plant and equipment
• Interpret and works from instruction, drawings and specifications, drawings and specifications without supervision.
• Carry out complicated analysis of test results to ascertain is the equipment meets its operating parameters during plant annual validations.
• Ensure all policies complied with and knowledge translated to the staff and monitored effectively.
• Implement revised or newly introduced operational procedures for plant and equipment.

Education and Professional Development

Undertake training as and when required to obtain, maintain and develop skills and knowledge base

• Be able to learn and adapt to new techniques, embrace training and provide written and verbal instruction to staff and colleagues on all aspects or their work.

Note:

This job description is intended as an outline of the general areas of activity and will be amended in the light of the changing needs of the organisation. To be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder.

• Staff may be asked to work reasonable additional hours (voluntary) and may be required to participate in an on-call rota (voluntary) which could necessitate them being asked to return to deal with emergency situations which could arise outside of normal working hours.
• This post will be Trust wide and may involve working on either site.
• Work independently when on-call throughout night and weekends. There is a requirement to act independently, deciding when to call independent contractors.

The post holder is required to follow Trust policies and procedures which are regularly updated including:

Confidentiality / Data Protection / Freedom of Information

Post holders must maintain the confidentiality of information about patients, staff and other health service business in accordance with the Data Protection Act of 1998. Post holders must not, without prior permission, disclose any information regarding patients or staff. If any member of staff has communicated any such information to an unauthorised person those staff will be liable to dismissal. Moreover, the Data Protection Act 1998 also renders an individual liable for prosecution in the event of unauthorised disclosure of information.

Following the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2005, post holders must apply the Trusts FOI procedure if they receive a written request for information.

Information Governance

All staff must comply with information governance requirements. These includes statutoryresponsibilities (such ascompliance with the Data Protection Act),following nationalguidance (such as theNHS Confidentiality Code of Practice) andcompliance with local policies and procedures (such as the Trust's Confidentiality policy). Staff are responsible for any personal information (belonging to staff or patients) that they access and must ensure it is stored, processed and forwarded in a secure and appropriate manner.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised full apprenticeship in relevant trade / NVQ level 3 / BTEC national certificate or equivalent training.
• Demonstrable experience working within this trade.

Desirable

• Certified person (CP) in their current trade or associated trade.
• Asbestos awareness training.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working on a broad range of plant and services. Including air / water / gas / steam and oil / heating and cooling plant.
• Able to communicate technical information to specialist and non-specialists.

Desirable

• Has good experience in health and safety and the ability to lead on this.
• Has worked in a Hospital / health care environment before.

Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of other trades and ability to work with them.
• Excellent oral and communication skills.
• Proactive, versatile and problem solving.

Desirable

• Experience with Microsoft Word / Excel and Power point.
• Ability to evaluate the needs of other colleagues.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Thomas'

Westminster Bridge Road

London

SE1 7EH

Employer's website

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)