Joiner

Job summary

Previous Applicants Need Not Apply

An exciting opportunity is now available to strengthen the existing workforce and to promote and enhance the Operational Estates Team.

Your base will be Fairfield General Hospital where you will carry out joinery, basic building repairs and planned maintenance, breakdown maintenance and diagnosing faults including a degree of new installation work. You may also be required to work across other trust sites when required.

This is a great role to work with likeminded people within one of the biggest employers.

In line with the Trust's Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the above you will work on install, maintain, service and repair the full range of Estates Structural and Fabric components / elements with a focus on Joinery repairs including a degree fabrication work. Perform work including activities which require comparison of a range of options, facts requiring analysis to resolve technical issues in complex and multifaceted equipment / situations. Responsible for comparison of structural components in the Trust's building Portfolio and fault finding on a wide range of structural elements and equipment including roads and footpaths, external drainage, walls, floors, ceilings, windows, doors, roofs and all relevant fire compartmentalisation and associated elements, maintenance of the Trusts complex window locking and gearing systems in accordance with statutory requirements (HTM's (Health Technical Memorandum's) e.g. 81 to 88 (Fire code), 54 to 70 (Component Data Base) and HBN's (Health Building Notes) e.g. 00-10 (Designing for floors, walls, ceilings, sanitary ware and windows).

Work out of hours in order to achieve pre-planned maintenance requirements and conduct necessary works in clinical environments in order to minimise disruption to the hospital function

Overtime may be available, enabling a boost to earning potential.

You will have a minimum NVQ 3 Joinery qualification (City & Guilds) or equivalent and proven post apprenticeship experience.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk