Maintenance Painter & Decorator

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

The closing date is 24 November 2024

Job summary

Come brighten up our Herefordshire & Worcestershire Mental Health NHS Trust with your expert painting skills!

Join our skilled craftspersons team, taking pride in providing outstanding painting repair and maintenance. We will provide you with resources to develop and progress a long-term career as well as flexibility, continual professional development as well as a wide range of wellbeing and support activities. If you would like to discuss informally if this is the right role for you, please get in touch with Recruiting Manager which can be found on the top right-hand side of this advert.

37.5 Hours/week oft 08:00 16:00 Hrs 5 day week.
Join a team of 4 builder, carpenters and painters meeting bi-monthly for team meetings, rest of time lone working amongst hospital staff and patients under your own responsible direction.
Painting activities across 46 sites around Hereford & Worcestershire including mental health and community hospital sites.
Based from Newtown Hospital workshop, Newtown Rd, Worcester WR5 1JG covering Herefordshire & Worcestershire Counties
Painting in low VOC water based Trust colour palette internal & external areas.
Your well-being is our priority where you will be offered a van, mobile phone to receive jobs and independence to manage the jobs received from CAFM job management solution.
Interviews 12th December 2024 Come and join our amazing team - apply now !

Main duties of the job

Arriving from home in the Trust provided van, to your first job site of the day, which could be in Worcester, Tenbury, Kidderminster, Bromsgrove, Pershore, Evesham or Redditch, you will paint your way through the reactive tickets received on your mobile hand held, alongside any planned larger project works. For example, this could be to paint 30 doors and door frames for a hospital or a ward walls and ceilings, first cleaning, repairing (plaster), priming then painting using the Trust approved estate wide colour palette.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer;

27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
Flexible and agile working opportunities
Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
Wide range of supportive staff networks
Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit our website.

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Date posted

06 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,071 to £25,674 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9798-0878

Job locations

Newtown Workshop, Newtown Hospital

Newtown Road

Worcester

WR5 1JG

Job description

Job responsibilities

At Herefordshire & Worcestershire Mental Health NHS Trust we pride ourselves in a positive work culture for our dedicated teams to ensure a fantastic place to work. An ability to champion a positive attitude and kind behaviours whilst delivering your work is key to the success of work outputs and outcomes being successful in delivering quality work. Taking pride in your painting and projects will stand you in good stead for joining a hard working respected team, the backbone of NHS building estates and making sure its fit for purpose for our patients and employees alike.

For full detail of the duties and criteria for the role, please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full detail of the duties and criteria for the role, please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Minimum 2 years experience in a similar environment
Range of experience in painting and decorating work to include preparation of work surfaces, colour matching, wallpaper hanging etc.

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ, City & Guilds or a recognised qualification in painting and decorating
I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Additional Criteria

Essential

Full driving licence/ability to meet the travel requirements of the role

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Minimum 2 years experience in a similar environment
Range of experience in painting and decorating work to include preparation of work surfaces, colour matching, wallpaper hanging etc.

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ, City & Guilds or a recognised qualification in painting and decorating
I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Additional Criteria

Essential

Full driving licence/ability to meet the travel requirements of the role

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.