Job summary
The Estates Department is a patient, visitor and staff driven department focused in delivering a range of engineering and building services in a professional, effective, consistent and friendly manner.
We need to appoint a Minor Works Supervisor to supervise a wide range of minor works schemes involving building, electrical and mechanical trades. This post is required to deliver a range of building services schemes and requires strong skills in administration, financial controls and service delivery.
The post holder will supervise a multi skilled, mainly contracted workforce, giving technical guidance and close supervision, ensuring all statutory and mandatory requirements are met. The post holder will also liaise with specialist contractors and provide an essential link between clinical and non clinical departments.
A good understanding of CDM regulations is essential.
Main duties of the job
To supervise a group of multi-skilled maintenance staff of more than one trade including maintenance assistants and apprentices.
To be responsible for the effective planning and efficient use of both labour and financial resources.
To be responsible for engendering a positive culture within the workforce with regard to health and safety, manual handling, including permits to work and risk assessments.
To be responsible for performance, standards monitoring and auditing of completed works, carried out by both the directly employed staff, agency labour and contractors.
To supervise both maintenance and/or minor works schemes and activities.To liaise with Minor Works and Capital Projects Team.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Served as a recognised apprenticeship in either mechanical, electrical or building disciplines
- Qualified to HNC
- Higher national diploma or level 4 vocational qualification with comparable work experience
- Possess a sound knowledge of trade principles and practice
- Project management experience, managing multiple contractors onsite
- advanced Health and Safety test and hold a current CSCS card
Experience
Essential
- Thorough understanding of building services and have a minimum of two years relevant experience
- Demonstrated high versatility and flexibility
- Kept abreast of technical knowledge associated with a healthcare environment.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Review and analyse highly complex technical guidance and documents and make judgement on whether further information is required, or enough information has been received.
- Ensure that own workload is managed effectively and autonomously to deliver against business priorities in a timely manner with an ability to regularly reframe and make adjustments to the original plan. Demonstrating flexibility in thinking and readiness for frequent change at short notice.
- Work without supervision, using initiative and be able to make decisions without reference to Minor Works Manager about the handling of sensitive matters.
- Identify errors or omissions, take action to resolve contractors design or quote and escalate as necessary.
- Demonstrate effective decision-making skills, at times informed by undertaking and using analysis from across a range of options.
- The post holder will require standard IT skills and will use a platform of different IT packages.
- The post holder will have incidental contact with patients.
- The post holder implements policies and procedures for own work area, however, these will have impact on other areas/divisions.
- The post holder will be responsible for purchasing materials, physical assets, raising requisitions via Oracle, receipting orders after checking invoices are correct and supplies maintained for Minor Works projects.
- The post holder will be responsible for inductions and training to external contractors when completing work projects. These groups could range from 2 members of staff up to 20 people.
- To be responsible for performance, standards monitoring and auditing of completed works KPI`s of measured term contractors.
- The post holder will manage their own workload. The post holder would escalate to the manager if required.
Other
Essential
- Able to travel across all sites within the ABUHB portfolio and to work hours flexibly when required.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Served as a recognised apprenticeship in either mechanical, electrical or building disciplines
- Qualified to HNC
- Higher national diploma or level 4 vocational qualification with comparable work experience
- Possess a sound knowledge of trade principles and practice
- Project management experience, managing multiple contractors onsite
- advanced Health and Safety test and hold a current CSCS card
Experience
Essential
- Thorough understanding of building services and have a minimum of two years relevant experience
- Demonstrated high versatility and flexibility
- Kept abreast of technical knowledge associated with a healthcare environment.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Review and analyse highly complex technical guidance and documents and make judgement on whether further information is required, or enough information has been received.
- Ensure that own workload is managed effectively and autonomously to deliver against business priorities in a timely manner with an ability to regularly reframe and make adjustments to the original plan. Demonstrating flexibility in thinking and readiness for frequent change at short notice.
- Work without supervision, using initiative and be able to make decisions without reference to Minor Works Manager about the handling of sensitive matters.
- Identify errors or omissions, take action to resolve contractors design or quote and escalate as necessary.
- Demonstrate effective decision-making skills, at times informed by undertaking and using analysis from across a range of options.
- The post holder will require standard IT skills and will use a platform of different IT packages.
- The post holder will have incidental contact with patients.
- The post holder implements policies and procedures for own work area, however, these will have impact on other areas/divisions.
- The post holder will be responsible for purchasing materials, physical assets, raising requisitions via Oracle, receipting orders after checking invoices are correct and supplies maintained for Minor Works projects.
- The post holder will be responsible for inductions and training to external contractors when completing work projects. These groups could range from 2 members of staff up to 20 people.
- To be responsible for performance, standards monitoring and auditing of completed works KPI`s of measured term contractors.
- The post holder will manage their own workload. The post holder would escalate to the manager if required.
Other
Essential
- Able to travel across all sites within the ABUHB portfolio and to work hours flexibly when required.
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
