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Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
Our maintenance officers play a vital role within the running of the hospitals and health centres and take pride within the environment in which they operate. It is the Maintenance Officers responsibility to ensure that all equipment and facilities are fully functioning, keeping the safety of employees and customers at the forefront of everything we do. They must support the maintenance manager with their duties.
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will be responsible for assisting the Maintenance Manager across the full range of his/her duties ensuring that works are delivered to an agreed quality, cost and within agreed time parameters.
* To be responsible for the supervision of all external contractors.
* Re-schedule and reallocate work priorities at short notice to meet the changing needs of the Trust.
* Provide assistance and support to the Maintenance Manager while being the point of contact for all Engineering and Building maintenance and technical compliance issues, including the compilation and interpretation of data and reports for backlog maintenance planning and improvement to the engineering and building functions.
* To be responsible for the local Estates management system (Concept) and the development of the system to provide accurate information on the maintenance functions.
* To assist with the review and implementation of Pre-planned Preventive Maintenance systems as required.
* To be responsible for and to ensure that relevant statutory inspections are completed within the required time scales and records maintained.
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
* We are kind.
* We are respectful.
* We work together with our communities.
These three values help us tostrive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,313 to a maximum of £5,436 pro rata for part time).
On-call Allowance This post will be required to participate in the Estates on-call rota and attracts payment of 3% of the basic salary.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Evidence of a good general education
* Educated to degree level or HNC/HND plus additional education to degree level, or able to demonstrate equivalent level of knowledge
* Evidence of continuing professional development and to regularly undertake R & D activities. Willingness to undergo further training.
* Incorporated Membership of relevant professional body such as CIBSE, RICS or CIOB, IEEE, or an equivalent level of experience
Experience
* Relevant experience of building or engineering services siteworks or maintenance
* Supervision of Estates maintenance activities or contracts, and/or Estates project works or contracts
* Experience in production of specifications for maintenance, installation or refurbishment works and the supervision of contracts.
Knowledge
* In-depth knowledge of Building Engineering Services and or construction
* Knowledge of BMS application
* Ability to act as the departments Estates user/client when working with in-house project managers and external consultants, to brief on initial design and to support snagging and integration of new works into PPM system etc
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
* Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
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