Job summary
- Main area
- Minor Works
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time)
- Job ref
- 040-EA084-0825
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Cadocs Hospital
- Town
- Newport
- Salary
- £31,516 - £38,364 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Minor Works Supervisor
Band 5
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments OR SUPPORT needed. If you need any documents in a larger font or a different format (such as braille) please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3 OR EMAIL [email protected]
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job overview
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- Able to travel across all sites within the ABUHB portfolio and to work hours flexibly when required.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Justin Jones
- Job title
- Assistant Head of Estate, Capital and Property
- Email address
- [email protected]
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