Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7250015SC
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHFM (Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management)
- Employer type
- Private Sector
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Building Craftsperson (Joiner)
Band 4
NHFM is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Established in 2012, NHFM provide specialist project management services for large and small capital developments, estates maintenance and a full range of facilities services for all of Northumbria Healthcare Trust’s sites.
Come and work for us and we can offer you:
- Competitive rates of pay
- Enhanced rates of pay for working evenings, nights, weekends and bank holidays
- Favourable employment terms and conditions – we mirror NHS Agenda for Change terms and conditions (https://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook) which includes up to 33 days annual leave + bank holidays per year, generous maternity and paternity leave provisions, occupational sick pay, and much more
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Career development opportunities
- Fantastic staff benefits including car lease, home electronics, cycle to work and childcare schemes, priority access to vaccinations, physiotherapy, counselling, among many more
- A great employee experience - we score very highly on our employee satisfaction metrics
Work for us and you will be making a real difference to the NHS and the thousands of people who use our services each year. Visit our website www.nhfm.co.uk for more information about who we are and benefits of working for us.
Whilst NHFM are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
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Job overview
An Opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Building Craftsperson to work at North Tyneside General Hospital. The successful candidate will work alongside the current team of to maintain the hospital site and Cobalt Offices. The post is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday and will also take part in the Emergency Maintenance assistant on call rota.
The Post is working for Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management Ltd.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The successful post holder will be involved in the day to day operations and maintenance of all building fabric within the Trust and non-Trust properties, including some installation work. They will be required to participate in the Estates on-call rota and undertake essential out of hours on-call duties, as directed.
The successful applicant will already have significant experience in Building Services , be versatile, able to handle conflicting priorities and have the ability to work under pressure. They will be computer literate, have good knowledge and ability, with good verbal and written communication skills. They will also possess good interpersonal skills, allowing them to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical personnel, within and beyond the organisation.
Working for our organisation
NHFM is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Established in 2012, NHFM provide specialist project management services for large and small capital developments, estates maintenance and a full range of facilities services. Carrying out facilities management for a state-of-the-art specialist emergency care hospital - The Northumbria, three general hospitals - North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham hospitals - and a number of smaller community hospitals and clinic sites, we cover one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country.
Work for us and you will be making a real difference to the NHS and the thousands of people who use our services each year. Visit our website www.nhfm.co.uk for more information about who we are and benefits of working for us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a skilled Joinery provision for the Estates Department to all client departments and Business Units.
Ability to organise and prioritise own workload, where required, and work unsupervised.
Must demonstrate total commitment, versatility and flexibility whilst undertaking all tasks and delegated work as instructed by Estates Officers Supervisors.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which:
(a) engages, enables and empowers others
(b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and,
(c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Must hold a relevant City & Guilds, BTEC or NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification in Joinery/building Craftsperson.
- Recognised CITB Craft Apprenticeship or *equivalent with previous experience of working within an Estates Healthcare environment having demonstrated total commitment to versatility and flexibility.
Desirable criteria
- BTEC HNC
Other
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous experience post apprenticeship experience or equivalent proving ability
- Experience of various painting and decorating techniques, such as, spray painting, and rag rolling etc
- Experience of sign writing and road marking including setting out from drawings
- Experience of preparation/clinical cleaning of walls etc. contaminated with bodily fluids.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Hanley
- Job title
- Estates Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07802686282
- Additional information
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