The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Apprentice Electrician

The closing date is 25 August 2025

Job summary

Start Your Career in the NHS as an Apprentice Electrician! Are you enthusiastic, hands-on, and looking to kick start your career in electrical engineering? The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is offering a fantastic opportunity to join our Estates and Facilities team as an Apprentice Electrician. This is a structured apprenticeship programme, combining practical work with academic study. Youll gain nationally recognised qualifications while working on a wide range of healthcare electrical systems across our hospital sites. Your remuneration will be paid in line with Annex 21 of the NHS Agenda for Change, based on the top of Band 5, as follows: Year 1: 65% of top of Band 5 Year 2: 70% of top of Band 5 Year 3: 75% of top of Band 5 Year 4: On successful completion, eligible for Band 5 qualified post This progressive pay model supports your development and reflects your growing responsibility over the course of the apprenticeship.

Main duties of the job

What You'll Be Doing: Assisting in the maintenance, inspection, and installation of electrical systems and equipment across Trust properties Learning from experienced electricians and engineers in a real world environment Attending college to complete the required technical qualifications (such as NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Installation) Developing skills in fault finding, testing, and safety procedures Supporting reactive and planned preventative maintenance work in line with NHS standards

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Date posted

06 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,049 to £37,796 a year

Contract

Apprenticeship

Duration

3 years

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

000560

Job locations

Dewsbury District Hospital

Dewsbury

West Yorkshire

WF13 4HS

Job description

Job responsibilities

Under guidance, to carry out day to day routine maintenance of electrical services plant and equipment throughout Trust properties and other organisations as directed.
To carry out planned maintenance work.
To carry out new electrical works as and when required to BS 7671 IEE Regulations.
Interpret work from all instructions, drawings and specifications.
To diagnose and repair faults in electrical plant and equipment: - Under supervision year 1
- - Lighting & lighting circuits
  - Electrical Installation Testing
  - Power circuits
  - Low voltage switchgear
  - Fire alarm, emergency lighting and burglar alarm systems
  - Emergency generators and associated switch gear
  - Battery systems
  - Air conditioning equipment and controls
  - Heating controls, boiler controls and associated equipment
  - Portable and fixed equipment
  - Portable appliance testing
  - Nurse call system
  - Laundry equipment
  - Various other hospital equipment and installations
To ensure stock levels are maintained and order stock as required.
Understand fully the inter-relationship between various maintenance crafts and to participate in the multi skilling in place (once trained).
To carry out work in accordance with working at height and permit to work systems on various functions in various conditions i.e. confined space,
To work from ladders, to erect and work from scaffold (once trained) and safe use of safety harness system.
To carry out work of a lesser trade.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Under guidance, to carry out day to day routine maintenance of electrical services plant and equipment throughout Trust properties and other organisations as directed.
To carry out planned maintenance work.
To carry out new electrical works as and when required to BS 7671 IEE Regulations.
Interpret work from all instructions, drawings and specifications.
To diagnose and repair faults in electrical plant and equipment: - Under supervision year 1
- - Lighting & lighting circuits
  - Electrical Installation Testing
  - Power circuits
  - Low voltage switchgear
  - Fire alarm, emergency lighting and burglar alarm systems
  - Emergency generators and associated switch gear
  - Battery systems
  - Air conditioning equipment and controls
  - Heating controls, boiler controls and associated equipment
  - Portable and fixed equipment
  - Portable appliance testing
  - Nurse call system
  - Laundry equipment
  - Various other hospital equipment and installations
To ensure stock levels are maintained and order stock as required.
Understand fully the inter-relationship between various maintenance crafts and to participate in the multi skilling in place (once trained).
To carry out work in accordance with working at height and permit to work systems on various functions in various conditions i.e. confined space,
To work from ladders, to erect and work from scaffold (once trained) and safe use of safety harness system.
To carry out work of a lesser trade.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application)

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.