Job summary
The Estates department at Furness General Hospital is a group of highly skilled electrical, mechanical and plumbing engineers, creative building craftpersons, and dedicated support staff.
We are looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic Building Services Engineer to join us. You should be an experienced and time served Electrician, Plumber, or Mechanical Engineer looking to progress your career.
You will be part of a 7 person shift team providing 24/7 cover to the FGH and Millom hospital sites, and will be trained to specialise in healthcare ventilation and decontamination.
Main duties of the job
To ensure the safe and continuous operation of all engineering and building plant and equipment, in accordance with statutory requirements, codes of practice, guidance notes and Trust procedures to an agreed standard.
Out of normal office hours site maintenance responsibility. To be the department's point of contact for all out of hours incidents and breakdowns, carrying out first line assessment, fault finding, repair, substitute of service and/or safe isolation as required.
To be the Trust's Fire Controlling Officer and undertake the duties of that role for the site as a whole during a fire event. To be appointed Authorised Person for roles within Health Technical Memoranda (HTM) 1 to 8.
To carry out line manager duties for contractors.
About us
We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, and Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe.
FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.
WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.
All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies,daycase and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our websitehttps://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/
Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our websitehttps://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full Electrical, Mechanical or Plumbing and Heating apprenticeship up to HNC/HND + Specialist knowledge in relevant area or equivalent degree level experience.
- The following NHS specific training will be provided and must be undertaken in the first 12 months of post.
- HTM 01 - Competent Person Decontamination
- HTM 02 - Authorised Person Medical Gas
- HTM 03 - Authorised Person/Competent Person Ventilation combined
- HTM 04 - Competent Person Water
- HTM 06 - Competent Person LV
- CP/AP Pressure Systems
- Boiler Operator Training
- Willingness to undertake further training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of engineering and building services installations
- Experience of HTM's and HBN's
- Project management experience
- Performance management experience
- Experience of the capital bidding process
- Experience of security systems
- Experience and knowledge of legal, statutory, and non statutory legislation
Skills
Essential
- Ability to deal with information confidentially and sensitively
- Ability to work unsupervised including within unsociable hours
- Excellent communication on all levels
- Extensive fault finding skill
- Good leadership, influencing, planning, and team building skills
- Good analytical skill
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to comply with all trust policies
- Ability to travel between trust sites as required
- Can demonstrate flexibility in approach to work patterns
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full Electrical, Mechanical or Plumbing and Heating apprenticeship up to HNC/HND + Specialist knowledge in relevant area or equivalent degree level experience.
- The following NHS specific training will be provided and must be undertaken in the first 12 months of post.
- HTM 01 - Competent Person Decontamination
- HTM 02 - Authorised Person Medical Gas
- HTM 03 - Authorised Person/Competent Person Ventilation combined
- HTM 04 - Competent Person Water
- HTM 06 - Competent Person LV
- CP/AP Pressure Systems
- Boiler Operator Training
- Willingness to undertake further training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of engineering and building services installations
- Experience of HTM's and HBN's
- Project management experience
- Performance management experience
- Experience of the capital bidding process
- Experience of security systems
- Experience and knowledge of legal, statutory, and non statutory legislation
Skills
Essential
- Ability to deal with information confidentially and sensitively
- Ability to work unsupervised including within unsociable hours
- Excellent communication on all levels
- Extensive fault finding skill
- Good leadership, influencing, planning, and team building skills
- Good analytical skill
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to comply with all trust policies
- Ability to travel between trust sites as required
- Can demonstrate flexibility in approach to work patterns
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.
