Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist - Mechanical (Grade D)NHS

Job summary

Are you an experienced mechanical or building services professional looking for a role where your technical expertise can make a real difference?

We have an exciting opportunity for an Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist - Mechanical to join our Estates team, helping to ensure that the buildings, plant, equipment and essential services that support patient care remain safe, reliable and effective.

This is a varied and technically challenging role. You will undertake complex fault diagnosis, repairs, servicing, planned maintenance, inspections and condition surveys across a wide range of mechanical, building services and associated systems.

You will also supervise and support Estates Assistants, helping to ensure planned and reactive maintenance is delivered safely, efficiently and to a high standard. As an experienced member of the team, you will share your technical knowledge with colleagues and contractors and promote compliance with health and safety requirements and safe working practices.

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone with a recognised apprenticeship or formal period of training in mechanical, electrical engineering or building services, together with a relevant qualification to HNC/HND or NVQ Level 4, or equivalent training and experience. You will have a good understanding of health and safety requirements within a technical environment and be committed to developing your skills further.

Professional development is an important part of this role. You will undertake specialist training and a technical assessment process to enable you to act as a Competent Person in areas including:o Healthcare Low Voltageo Healthcare HVACo Healthcare Medical Gaseso Healthcare/MOD Mechanical Services

The post forms part of a 24/7 shift arrangement, providing essential out-of-hours cover and responding to emergency breakdowns involving patient-critical services.If you are a practical problem solver with strong technical skills, enjoy working as part of a team and are keen to develop your expertise within a complex healthcare Estates environment, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Job description

For full details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.

This position is not currently eligible for a certificate of sponsorship in line with Home Office guidance as it does not appear on the skilled worker visa occupation list.

If you currently hold a different type of visa allowing you to work in the UK we would welcome an application from you. If your visa expires or there is a change in status during your employment, the Trust will be required to review your employment which may result in the termination of your employment to comply with the relevant immigration legislation

About us

AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.

We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.

We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.

Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.

Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHSFT specifically.