Overview
Main area Estates Mechanical Technician Grade Band 5 - Annex 21
Contract Apprenticeship: 3 years (Annex 21) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7.5 hrs per day) Job ref 343-NN-7353570-HM-FM
Employer Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. Site: Epsom Hospital, St Helier Hospital, Sutton Health & Care & Surrey Downs Town Epsom. Salary £21,457.80 - £32,599.50 Annex 21. Salary period Yearly. Closing 25/09/2025 23:59.
Estates Apprentice Electricians - Apprenticeship (Annex 21)
Band 5 - Annex 21
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
ESTH Trust are looking for Apprentice Estates Electrical Technicians to work in Property maintenance at a AFC Band 5 ( Annex 21 )- 37.5 hours a week.
3 years apprenticeship depending on a start date.
Salary details: £21,457.80 - £32,599.50 Annex 21 - 60% top of Band 5 (Year 1), 65% top of Band 5 (Year 2), 70% top of Band 5 (Year 3), 75% top of Band 5 (Year 4).
This role will be required to work trust-wide across Epsom, ST Helier Hospitals,
Responsibilities include training to become an electrical technician capable of highly complex fault finding and maintenance on all aspects of engineering plant and equipment throughout the Trust. Duties must be carried out within stringent timescales and statutory guidelines. The post holder will have day to day contact with internal and external stakeholders regarding sensitive, complex and confidential issues. They will present verbal, written and numerical issues, explaining complexities to a wide range of stakeholders. To provide stakeholders updates and potential disruptions, to organise planned shutdowns.
If you are interested and available please apply today.
Main duties of the job
* To conduct PPM and assist reactive tasks
* To assist with fault find on complex mechanical systems
* To help and escort contractors
* To manage personal jobs on the CAFM via PDA
* To support in mechanical system shut downs and isolations
Working for our organisation
The Trust’s mission is ‘to put the patient first and deliver great care to every patient, every day’. Our priorities are to create a “one team, one trust” culture and focus on the delivery of the following five objectives to ensure we provide high quality, compassionate care to all of our patients:
* Delivering safe and effective care across our sites
* Creating a positive experience that meets the expectations of our patients, their families and carers
* Providing responsive care that delivers the right treatment, in the right place at the right time
* Being financially sustainable
* Working in partnership with our patients, commissioners, other health and care providers, local authorities, the voluntary sector, the NHS TDA, NHS England and Monitor in the interests of our patients and a sustainable local health and social care economy.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Technical
* carry out planned preventative maintenance
* To fault find on complex Air Handling Units and Refrigeration Plant, and to carry out regular, Planned Preventative Maintenance when required
Information and reporting
* Responsible as part of the local team for the information upkeep of the CAFM
* To investigate incidents and report back into the management structure.
* To produce engineering reports where requested, for safety groups and trust committees as example
Technology or system support
* Be conversant with the CAFM via handheld PDA system
* Be conversant with BMS and Bold systems
Communications and Engagement
* Provide and receive complex information to managers and end users
* Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information
* Communicates technical project related information with other professionals, both internal and external personnel, including senior managers, directors, to ensure that work undertaken conforms to all statutory and HTM requirements.
* To work effectively with relative services within the trusts to ensure that due process and governance is followed in the delivery of additional works
General responsibilities
* To support the department and organisation by carrying out any other duties that reasonably fit within the broad scope of a job of this grade and type of work.
* Assist visitors, patients and staff during incidental contact
* When required assist in grievances and disciplinary issues
Person specification
Qualifications
* C&G, NVQ or similar in a mechanical discipline
* CPD in line management
* HNC/HND in an engineering discipline
* Competent person in specialist subject such as safe water
* Time served apprenticeship
Experience
* Experience of working with advanced plumbing and/or mechanical systems. Fault finding on mechanical with skills to isolate, keep running and fully repair.
* Experience of delivering safe water services tasks, temperature monitoring, cleaning and chlorination of taps/TMVs and fault finding on systems.
* Experience in working within healthcare premises
* Working with a PDA installed with CAFM, MICAD and Zetasafe.
Knowledge
* Sound knowledge of mechanical systems. In depth knowledge of HaSaWA and other relevant acts, standards and guidance notes
* Understanding of permit to work systems, risk assessments and good working practices.
* Knowledge of HTM and HBNs
* Basic understanding of asset management (PPM and reactive tasks, SFG 20)
Skills
* Ability to read and understand technical drawings and specifications
* Knowledge and awareness of diversity and human rights as appropriate to your role
* Effective communication to ensure high standards of care, treatment, service or support
* Customer-focused service
* Strong team and personal organizational and time management skills
* Ability to work in a fast paced environment and ensure paperwork, drawings and reports are correct
* IOSH Management certification
* Ability to analyse complex problems and develop workable solutions
Other Requirements
* Good understanding of policies and procedures governing their area of work
* Self-motivated and proactive with a can-do attitude and track record of delivery
* Able to work autonomously
* Honest, reliable and trustworthy; treat patients, visitors, colleagues with respect
* Ability to travel between Trust sites
* Flexible to meet the needs of the team, the service and the Trust
* Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills; work on own initiative and lead meetings with contractors and Trust staff
* Willing to work in unpleasant conditions (e.g., undercroft, sewage lines)
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please advise the interviewers to avoid delays.
Closing date: We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are shortlisted. Check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. If this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required. All employees have a responsibility for safeguarding and for ensuring awareness of duties relating to their role.
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Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: esth.dal@nhs.net.
Our confidential answering service is available after 5pm.
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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their duties. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020; a Disclosure to the DBS will be required to check for any previous convictions.
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