Maintenance Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Priory Healthcare

Priory Healthcare

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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WE ARE LOOKING FOR TALENTED PEOPLE LIKE YOU
Knowing that you're making a difference to people's lives is rewarding in itself. But our many roles offer much more than that.

As well as helping you grow and develop your talent, we want you to feel proud of where you work and what you do.

Knowing that you're making a difference in people's lives is rewarding in itself.

Our roles offer much more than that with lots of opportuntities in training to support you to grow in your career pathway.

Priory Enfield Hospital is a 53-bed mental health hospital in North London with good commuting access to/from London. The hospital has a full care pathway, including one ward offering acute services for males and females and medium and low secure wards for males across three wards.

As a Maintenance Assistant, your primary duty will be to ensure that our patients and service users are within a hospital that is a safe environment for them that adheres to health and safety standards.

You will need to work closely with the Maintenance Manager to ensure that all fixtures and fittings are in excellent condition and equipment is regularly serviced.

Duties will include:

Ensuring the hospital is maintained as a safe and secure place for patients and service users to be within
Work on the environmental plan to carry out local painting with the site
Log and record environmental faults, as well put faulty equipment out of use and make areas safe as required
Maintaining the hospital grounds to ensure they are in excellent condition at all times
Carry out routine health and safety checks and tests
Work closely with the Maintenance Manager on long term maintenance plans
Check and repair fixtures and fittings that may include lighting and heating

Essential:

To have a proactive approach in the identification/resolution of defects.
Experience of general painting/redecoration works
Awareness of general plumbing including carrying out water temperature checks and plant room checks
Electrical awareness so that you can become familiar with the hospital's electrical safe isolation points
Experience of carrrying out fire safety checks ensuring all paperwork is completed,
Have a basic undertanding of what contractors are doing when carrying out planned maintenance tasks.
The ability to become familiar with the building layout and access to services
Experience of dealing with COSHH substances and the Health & Safety rules around these substances
Be competent in Manual Handling techniques
Have good IT skills and be able to resolve any local IT issues (connecting PC's/networks & Printers)
Good time keeper and good customer service skills.
May be required to work alone and follow lone working procedures.
Experience in managing contractors whilst on site, ensuring they are inducted and comply to the sites Health & Safety Arrangements.
Work as part of the oncall rota with the Maintenance Team