Maintenance Technician - Plumber

The Role

To maintain a range of buildings services, plant and equipment, which can sometimes be complex and non-routine by diagnosing and repairing faults as they occur. You will Maintain NHSLs mechanical, electrical plumbing, associated building services plant and building fabric assets to a high standard. You will also carry out planned preventative maintenance including any corrective maintenance required using work requests and completing all records and documentation required.

This will include the planning and prioritising on a day-to day basis of their workload and material management requirements to include documentation, completion and sign off.  The postholders are then required to liaise with contractors and staff to ensure that disruption is kept to a minimum and safe working practices are observed, especially in areas where staff, patients or visitors may be in the vicinity of the work being carried out.

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring

• Completion of apprenticeship in Mechanical or Electrical Bias plus an HNC or equivalent,  with additional non-core training qualification at SVQ level or equivalent.

• Experience of working in an estates service environment.

• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of current statutory legislative requirements.

• Experience of inspecting and planning working in relation to PPM and Reactives.

  Requirement to undertake in house training relevant to position such as specific statutory training, Archibus, Learnpro and Toolbox Talks.

• Additional knowledge through training is also required for Portable appliance testing, periodic testing washer disinfectors, maintenance person sterilisers, asbestos awareness, legionella awareness and prevention, tube system maintenance, plc controllers, steam/Boilers etc to achieve competency and / or accreditation.

• Accredited Boiler/Steam course resulting in postholders gaining accreditation and ensuring the organisation meets HSE and Insurance requirements regards competent persons.

• Specific Medical Gas training and Medical Gas Pipeline Systems training is provided to ensure post holders have the required knowledge and can be deemed competent persons.

• Sterilisers and autoclave accredited courses are provided to ensure competent person status.

• Healthcare Ventilation course to ensure competent person status.

• Specialist manufacturer courses are provided for unique equipment used in and industrial scale e.g. Specialist laundry equipment. 

• Post holders are also required to develop additional skills through training provided in other specialist areas e.g. Complex Air Conditioning systems as evidenced throughout the Job description. Such systems require additional theoretical knowledge in order to understand their function and complexity.

• Multiple additional courses are evidenced via training records that current Post holders have been required to undertake and maintain to ensure legislative compliance and can be made available upon request.

• Car Driver with a full, valid UK/EU/EEA licence

It would be great if you also have

• Must have served at least a 4 year apprenticeship in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering and achieved City & Guilds Part 3, ONC or equivalent.
• Basic training in Health & safety,Manual handling and CPR
• Have worked on a wide range of electrical, mechanical equipment, both commercial and domestic

Contract type

Permanent

Full time

37 hours

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in University Hospital Monklands within PSSD Maintenance

The working pattern for this role will be confirmed by the hiring manager.

Looking to find out more?

If youre looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Ross Hogg, Maintenance Manager on Ross.Hogg@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk 

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Jennifer Hughes, Recruitment Administrator on jennifer.hughes@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk  (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshires benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service

• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays

• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)

• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service

• Occupational health services

• Employee counselling services

• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If youre looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

Additional Information for Applicants

• Posts close at midnight on the indicated date
• For help to complete an application on Jobtrain please follow this link: https://www.careers.nhs.scot/how-to-apply/application-process/
• Please note that our correspondence method is by e-mail, therefore please ensure you enter your email address accurately
• Please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders) and also your Jobtrain account for updates
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• Once you have submitted your application form you will be unable to make any amendments

In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received.  Please complete and submit your application early.

*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential childrens setting/secure unit.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.

From 1 April 2024, the working week for NHS Agenda for Change workers in Scotland will be reduced.  Full-time hours will reduce from 37.5 to 37 hours (pro rata for part-time staff) without loss of earnings.

NHS Lanarkshire will implement this change but it may not be possible to fully transition from 1 April and there may therefore be some areas of the organisation where implementation may take longer.  If the department is currently unable to safely accommodate the reduced hours from 1st April, you may be required to work 37.5 hours per week until the department can meet the requirements without impacting patient safety - you will, of course, be remunerated accordingly. NHS Lanarkshire is committed to full implementation of the 37 hour working week across all areas as soon as it is safe to do so.

NHS Lanarkshire Recruitment Website

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