Maintenance Assistant

OB TITLE: Building Services Operative

GRADE: Band 3

DEPARTMENT / LOCATION: Estates Dept, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust

REPORTS TO: Assistant Estates Officer

ACCOUNTABLE TO: Estates Officer

HOURS 37 per Week

Job Purpose

To participate in the provision of an Estates service primarily undertaking day-to-day inspections, repairs, planned maintenance, installation and minor improvements to the hospital Mechanical/ Electrical systems and building fabric.

The post is primarily based at AHR but candidates will work at all Trust sites if required to.

Some out of hours work is anticipated to gain access to problematic areas

Scope of Duties

This post has no budgetary responsibilities.

The post has no supervisory responsibility.

The Estates Department is primarily responsible for two hospital sites the Kidderminster Hospital, and Alexandra Hospital Redditch. The Alexandra hospital is a 325 bed general hospital.

The Kidderminster hospital site contains a small rehabilitation ward, a GP lead ward, a treatment and diagnostic centre which contains 4 theatres, Endoscopy, X-ray and a Renal unit.

Key relationships

Internal

Liaise and co-operate with all estates personnel and persons carrying out duties prescribed by the assistant Estates Officer or any other member of the Estates Management team.

Develop and maintain a close working relationship with modern matrons, ward sisters and other clinical / non clinical staff. Promote and maintain good working relationships with all Trust staff.

External

Promote and maintain a good working relationship with all relevant external service engineers/contractors and service providers.

Where necessary promote and maintain a good working relationship with all relevant material/spares suppliers and equipment manufacturers.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The maintenance assistant will be employed on work in a multi-skilled way, on their own initiative on less complex tasks and under the instruction and supervision of skilled building service staff on more complex tasks .

1. Carry out simple planned preventative maintenance work in accordance with Estates schedules and accepted good working practices.

2. Carry out general building fabric repairs, e.g. making good brickwork and walls, simple joinery, floor repairs including outside paving, painting etc assist craft staff in more complex repairs

3. To carry out simple necessary plumbing or drainage repairs or installations

4. Carry out simple electrical repairs such as replacing lamps, cleaning diffusers, PAT testing

5. Use chemicals to clean / disinfect internal / external areas

6. Participate fully in all relevant estates procedures and ensure completion of all necessary documentation in accordance with Estates Department policies.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large

acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute

services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a

larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from

three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our

caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred

care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to

work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our

everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise

accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working

within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a

DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check

(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting

Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

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