Description
Maintenance Assistant
Location: Cherwell Hospital, Banbury
Hours: hours per week, Full-time
The role:
We currently have a great opportunity for a Maintenance Assistant to join our team at Cherwell Hospital, Banbury. You will assist with maintaining ageing of building, general maintenance around site. Flexible days in accordance with the needs of the service. Working alongside the hospital engineer to maintain, repair and service all hospital equipment and facilities to a high standard.
This is a varied role and tasks included, but not an exhaustive list, will be:
1. Responding to departmental maintenance requests in all areas of the hospital in a timely manner
2. Managing maintenance folder to log, plan and complete job requests in a timely manner
3. Proactively identify areas and items in need of repair in a timely manner
4. Basic plumbing tasks: repair baths, showers, sinks and toilets, fix minor leaks and unblock sinks, fixing radiators
5. Basic carpentry jobs including replacing door locks, hanging shelves and pictures.
6. Changing light bulbs and minor electrical work
7. Basic decorating jobs: touching up paintwork, filing wall defects
8. Moving of furniture and equipment
Required Skills & Experience:
9. General maintenance knowledge and experience
10. Good understanding of Health and Safety procedures and best practice
11. Good communication skills
12. Confident team player
13. Clean driving license
14. Use of a car
Benefits:
15. 25 Days Leave + Bank Holidays
16. Private Pension where Ramsay will match up to 5% after a qualifying period
17. Flexible shift patterns available where possible
18. Enhanced Competitive Parental Leave Policies
19. Private Medical Cover with option to add partner & dependants
20. Life Assurance (Death in Service) x3 base salary
21. Free Training and Development via the Ramsay Academy
22. Subsidised staff restaurant
23. Concerts for Carers
24. Employee Assistance Programme
25. Cycle2Work scheme available, in partnership with Halfords
26. The Blue Light Card Scheme
About Us:
Ramsay Health Care UK is a well-established global hospital group with over 60 years’ experience. We are a global provider operating in 11 countries with 77,000 staff who treat 8 million patients each year. It is well respected within the healthcare industry and is one of the leading providers of independent hospital services in England. We are well known for our strong, long-standing relationship with the NHS.
We love people with a positive, “can do” attitude who want to make a difference in their work. "Our employees are Ramsay." The skills and commitment of our employees forms the basis for our success.
We know our people are our greatest asset, our business is growing and we would like you to join us. “The Ramsay Way” culture recognises that people – staff and doctors – are Ramsay Health Care’s most important asset and this has been key to our ongoing success.
We are proud of our ‘Speak Up for Safety’ programme and ensure that the patient is at the heart of everything we do. Join us and have more ‘Time to Care’.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all.
We care.
It’s more than what we do, it’s who we are. Everything we do is about striving to deliver the best care. And it's a belief that's as true today as it was when we welcomed our first patients in 1964.
“The Ramsay Way” culture recognises that our people are our most important asset and this has been key to our ongoing success.
We are proud to support the UK’s Armed Forces and Reservists and have already achieved the Silver Award as part of the MOD’s Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme. The scheme recognises employers who actively support Defence while encouraging other organisations to adopt the same behaviours in their workplace. As a company we are committed to supporting the wider Armed Forces community and this includes our staff as well as our patients.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all. This position is subject to background and DBS checks.