Job summary
- Main area
- Building Maintenance
- Grade
- NHS AfC Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 44 hours per week (shift working pattern)
- Job ref
- 196-ESS1268
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Guy's Hosptial
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £30,279 - £33,116 per annum (incl. of HCA)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/06/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Shift Multi-Skilled Craftsperson
NHS AfC Band 4
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
Essentia provide effective management and co-ordination of all non-clinical support services which are vital to the Trust functioning effectively, efficiently and economically to safely meet its overall objectives and continuing success.
The Building Maintenance & Improvement Department which covers all traditional ‘Estates functions’ is primarily responsible for providing professional, effective and efficient customer focused reactive and planned maintenance services to the Trusts buildings.
The Department is also responsible for minor improvements, refurbishment works, also replacement programmes, delegated capital projects and provides similar services to other third party organisations through Service Level Agreements. The Department works very closely with the Capital Projects, Engineering and Operation’s teams together with the end-user for successful delivery of all of these services
Main duties of the job
The Building Maintenance Team have exciting opportunities for Shift Multi Skilled Craftsperson's to play a key role in the Building Maintenance Service within St Thomas's Hospital, ensuring they meet the required standards in relation to quality of service.
You will have an NVQ Level 2 in a Building Maintenance field or equivalent. The successful candidates will be a self starters with proven skills.
Strong communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills are essential for this role, with the successful candidates operating across organisational boundaries.
The posts are part of the Essentia Building Maintenance Team and report to the Building Maintenance Team Manager.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Ensure that all policies and procedures laid down by the Trust are strictly complied with.
Report all defects on all items of equipment and any potentially hazardous risk.
Assemble and fix flat pack furniture and office equipment.
Carry out emergency glazing repairs, remove broken glass, board up or re-glaze
Undertake the cutting of keys using the computerised key cutting machine, replace a full range of locks to all types of doors.
Carry out repairs on locks and fit digital locks including mortice, Yale, Union and electronic locks.
Undertake measuring and pricing works which include quotes/estimates for locks.
Carry out temporary and permanent minor repairs to footpaths and road surfaces.
Carry out repairs to flat and pitch roofs and assist specialist roofing contractors and surveyors as required.
Carry out the removal of defective floor and floor covering and undertake temporary and permanent repairs as appropriate.
Fit and carry out repairs to external work including fencing, barriers, gateways, and assist the Gardening Team.
To assist departments in clearing and preparing work areas when required including the removal and repositioning of furniture, shelving, notice boards and office furniture etc.
Carry out a wide range of minor improvements works e.g. support brackets for monitors, shelving, storage facilities any wall mounted equipment
Identify and report faults/breakdowns that require the attendance of specialist support contractors and assist the contractor with the repair as and when necessary.
Carry out painting and decorating duites, minor repairs and full decorations
Assist in surveys of new works as and when necessary.
Carry out the full of associated building repair work including (but not exclusive) brickwork, block work, floor screeding, plastering, floor and wall tiling, coving.
Work in close proximity to patients and take requests from medical and nursing staff (i.e. assist with the loss of keys for drug cabinets or patient lockers).
Assist the Security Team in emergency situations i.e. patients getting locked in toilets, etc.
Work with a range of chemicals i.e. solvents, glues, varnish, stains, polishes and mix up stains as required.
Erect and dismantle access platforms, vertical and horizontal (base working platforms).
Use wood working machines to produce timber products, i.e. planer overhead router, band saw, mortise machine, cross cut saw, panel saw and lathes.
Undertake routine maintenance in wards and to communal areas as requested.
Make up signs by using the computerised sign making machine.
Person specification
Knowledge skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify existing paint applications and identify action/ treatment to ensure correct system used in non-clinical/clinical area (infection control)
Desirable criteria
- Shall be required to build up their own set of hand tools. Large or specialist tools will be provided by the Trust.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience having demonstrated high versatility and flexibility
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within NHS Acute Trusts with maintenance and minor works project delivery experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completed and passed City & Guilds in Painting & Decoration or Equivalent NVQ3 Qualification
Desirable criteria
- CSCS Card
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties 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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- William Hardcastle
- Job title
- Site Buliding Maintenance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07775548435
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