15 Oct
Minnie Kidd House
London
Main area
Support Services
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
196-ESS1464-S
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Minnie Kidd House
Town
London
Salary
£31,944 - £34,937 p.a inc HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/10/2024 23:59
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs,
local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres.
In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality,
safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The post holder will provide a mechanical multiskilled service to the Community Engineering Department and other directorates within Guy’s and St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). Responsible for effective maintenance of the Trust’s technical infrastructure.
Through personal leadership, commitment and practice the post holder will secure the highest professional standards of engineering standards throughout the Trust.
The post holder will be expected to work closely with the engineering teams, Capital development and environment teams.
Responsible for the effective implementation of the Community’s Health & Safety policies and protocols
They will demonstrate total commitment, versatility and flexibility whilst undertaking all tasks and delegated work as instructed by the engineering team.
Ability to organise and prioritise own workload where required and work unsupervised and independently.
The post holder will be held to account for effective performance and will need to manage and balance competing priorities.
Main duties of the job
Professional
Management and Leadership
Financial Responsibility
Information Management
Education and Professional Development
Working for our organisation
Essentia is part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and is the in-house team responsible for non-clinical healthcare services. Essentia designs, builds and maintains healthcare infrastructure vital to the smooth running of healthcare services. This encompasses everything from construction projects and healthcare planning to waste management, housekeeping, transport and security. Essentia employs around 1,700 people, who provide essential facilities management support to clinical teams. It combines exceptionally high standards and public sector values with commercial focus, innovative thinking and modern technology to create the best possible patient experience. Essentia strives to be a great place to work,
grow and build a career. The Essentia Way is:
- Working together
- Doing it well
- Looking after each other
We have a great NHS pension scheme, access to our own training academy, interest free season ticket loans and much more. If you fit the criteria, apply and you could be part of our Community Family.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
In support of the Mechanical Team Leader and Maintenance Manager to ensure the day to day efficient and safe working of all engineering plant on site, supporting a multiskilled, multi-disciplined engineering workforce.
To work within the Estates Department Health & Safety policies and protocols, ensuring that working practises comply with these in both spirit and practise.
To carry out day to day maintenance of engineering plant as directed by the Mechanical Team Leader, Maintenance Manager.
To attend to plant breakdowns, carry out repairs and restore the units to service as quickly and efficiently as possible.
With support to be able to fault find on electric motors and their associated control gear.
To activate changeover of plant and or it’s safe isolation in the event of a malfunction or breakdown.
Experience in fault finding and installation on building mechanical services. Able to carry out mechanical work such as connection/disconnection of belt drives, pulley and direct drive couplings.
To maintain and efficiently run plant and equipment and to instruct others on the above features and other aspects of the work.
To efficiently diagnose and repair faults in mechanical installations, plant and equipment, to deal with new situations as they arise and to pass on knowledge to others.
Have a working knowledge of building management systems.
Able to carry out minor Electrical work.
To interpret and work from all instructions, drawings and specifications appropriate to the trade, without supervision.
To develop an understanding of the complete working of the mechanical installations within the sites, to maintain and efficiently run plant and equipment and to instruct others on the above features and other aspects of the work.
To efficiently diagnose and repair faults in mechanical installations, plant and equipment, to deal with new situations as they arise and to pass on knowledge to others.
To set out new work or set up new production appropriate to the trade using relevant instruments and machinery, without supervision.
To manufacture, assemble, erect and install new work. To use all relevant tools and equipment.
Professional
Carries out the responsibilities of a competent person for
Pressure Systems
Ventilation Systems
Confined Spaces
L8 Legionella
When working on call have delegated responsibility for all Trust engineering assets
Works with complex workings of all mechanical/electrical building services plant and equipment located in NHS buildings.
Responsible for calibrating and maintaining highly specialist equipment associated with pressure/ventilation and other computerised building control systems
Install, service, test, diagnose and repair mechanical/electrical plant and equipment
Implements interruptions of engineering services in close liaison with both engineering and clinical managers
Carries out planned preventative and reactive maintenance on all of Trust asset and engineering systems
The duty holder (authorised person) takes responsibility for the engineering services on site whilst on duty.
Deputises for the Mechanical Team Manager in their absence
Responsible for the personnel management when deputising for the team manager
Management and Leadership
There is a regular responsibility for ongoing training and teaching of apprentices and trainees in their core subjects. i.e. Mechanical/Electrical trade practices, And other trade practices, and other staff specialism’s, i. e Ventilation, L8, Pressure Systems etc
Coach and mentor for other junior staff, i.e. apprentices and maintenance assistants
Financial Responsibility
Responsible for the installation, repair and maintenance of the building fabric, physical assets and machinery throughout the Trust
Accountability for appropriate use and allocation of stock issued.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
For and informal discussion, please email Steve King for a telephone appointment.
▶️ Mechanical Maintenance Engineer (multi skilled) trainee
🖊️ Minnie Kidd House
📍 London