Band 4 - St Albans, United Kingdom - West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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St Albans, United Kingdom

4 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are seeking a qualified tradespersons responsible for undertaking planned and reactive maintenance of complex electrical, mechanical and control systems across the diverse building services of the Trust estate.

The vacancies will be based at our St Albans Hospital, however there may be occasions when roles will be required across sites.

They will have the ability to analyse complex faults and undertake rectifications to ensure continuity of service.

The Electrician will be able to prioritise their workloads, identify potential improvement to operational system and management processes in order to increase departmental efficiencies.

The job:

May involve shift working and planned overtime.
Will involve oncall responsibilities you would need to be on site within 1 hour of call out.

All staff required to undertake on-call commitments must be able to make their own way to and from the required locations.

The post-holder will be required to undertake complex trade tasks within their specialist area in support of the Team's overall output whilst promoting the Estates Departments Health & Safety awareness and operational practice culture, demonstrating good and safe working practices in line with Trust and industry standards.

They will manage, coordinate, and monitor an assigned list of daily planned and reactive workloads, escalating to the Operational Supervisors any instances where additional staff or materials are required or where works require Contractor support.

In addition, they will Implement and enforce current policies relating to works undertaken personally or under their instruction, carrying out ad hoc inspections of works completed to ensure appropriate standards are being delivered, all whilst acting appropriately with due regard for the patients and clinical staff.

There has never been a more exciting time to join West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Major redevelopment works are planned as part of the New Hospital Programme.

These will be most dramatic at Watford General Hospital where up to 90% of buildings will be new.

The trust has recently gained 'teaching hospital' status which reflects the dedicated work of many teams and individuals who have set the standard for delivering high quality training, learning and education at all levels of the workforce.

We encourage and welcome people with disabilities. If you need help, please ask.

Responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

Carrying out Electrical Installation works supervised.
Carrying out fault finding and testing on Emergency lighting and keep all relevant records.
Working within a Shift system, or on planned overtime, or to participate in an out of hours oncall rota, as necessary.
Completing job sheets for effective feedback, record keeping and the initiation (when required) of followon works.
Working the BMS system (Building Management System)
Testing and repairing street lighting, general lighting, nurse call systems and small power circuits
Carrying out essential maintenance on all plant and Air Handling Units

Advising, assisting, supervising, training and supporting team members on methods of working in order to deliver jobs efficiently, to the required standard and in accordance with current best practice.