Employer London Ambulance Service NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Rainham Essex Town Rainham Salary £59,490 - £66,239 Per annum inclusive of Outer HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 17/06/2025 23:59
Mechanical Engineer
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year. We are the busiest emergency ambulance service in the UK serving one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities. We provide emergency and urgent healthcare that is free to patients at the time they receive it.
We are the only NHS provider trust to serve the whole of London and the nine million people who live in, work in or visit the city. We cover an area of 620sq miles and have more than 8,000 people who work or volunteer for us – rising to 10,000 when including bank staff and students.
We answer around two million 999 calls a year and our crews attend more than 3000 emergencies a day. Our 24-hour 111 integrated urgent care services London answer around two million calls a year.
We play a leading role in integrating access to emergency and urgent care in the capital and are striving to ensure patients receive the right response, in the right place, at the right time
Our main role is to respond to emergency 999 calls, providing medical care to patients across the capital, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Other services we offer include providing pre-arranged patient transport and finding hospital beds. Working with the police and the fire service, we are prepared for dealing with large-scale or major incidents in the capital.
Job overview
To assist the Building Services Manager with all building services matters.
To deputise in absence of the Building Services Manager.
· To arrange planned and adhoc repairs and maintenance of building, mechanical and electrical works ensuring satisfactory completion.
· To prepare annual schedules of condition in order to develop long term maintenance plans.
· Maintain up to date knowledge of new legislation covering building mechanical and electrical services including but not limited to fire safety, building regulations, electrical regulations, CIBSE, Health and Safety.
· Project manage major M&E maintenance works ensuring effective liaison with local operational managers to minimise operational disruption and ensure continuity of service.
Ensure critical areas served by Mechanical and Electrical services including Building Management Systems, are maintained in good working order.
· To ensure a regular program of maintenance and repair to all buildings and stations is maintained.
Main duties of the job
· To advise the Building Services Manager on building service issues affecting the planning and implementation of the Trust-Wide Estates strategy.
· To prepare and develop annual programmes for building services maintenance and capital projects.
· Investigate market trends for procurement and building services management and implement work practice/polices.
· Ensure continuous supply of plant and utilities to essential LAS Services, in consultation with IM&T managers.
· Develop, maintain and supervise Engineering Standards and Corporate Maintenance Polices.
· Develop and maintain Estates asset register database.
· To project manage all Estates major engineering capital schemes, liaising with all consultants, preparing briefs and monitoring budgets.
· Develop/compile Business Cases in conjunction with operational managers, incorporating operational data/statistics.
· Monitor total engineering of the Estate to ensure compliance with Health and Safety requirements.
· Develop and maintain protocols of good engineering practice and professional expertise for the Head of Estates & Facilities, Managers and Officers.
· To develop/monitor Quality Assurance and Benchmark Standards to ensure commitment to the pursuit of value for money.
· To supervise and monitor all contractors in relation to maintenance of building services within the estate.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year. Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:
* Our care– delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.
* Our organisation– being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.
* Our London– using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.
To achieve these three missions we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organisation, with our partners and with our patients, and we have analysed population trends and horizon scanned the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details of the job description and main responsibilities, please see attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree in Building Services engineering or equivalent
* Hold Gas Registration in the UK
* Qualified Chartered Engineer or membership of equivalent professional association or equivalent experience
* Extensive post-qualification training and experience in Estates, Facilities and complex project management in the Private or Public sector
* Hold a full car driving licence
* Membership of appropriate profession institute
Experience
* Extensive experience of managing mechanical and electrical plant to critical services
* Estate, Facilities and Project Management experience either within the public or private sector
* Have held financial delegation
* Experience in implementing, developing and operating safe systems of work
* Experienced in the procurement and maintenance of plant and equipment
* Working in Partnership with external organisations
* Experience with appointing external consultants
Knowledge
* Preparing and writing budget
* Construction Design and Management Regulations
* Knowledge/understanding of statutory and local requirements including electrical regulations, planning permissions, conservation area applications etc
* Building Services requirements for Health Care premises (HTM’s)
* Gas and Mechanical Services regulations
* Specialist knowledge of all building services installations
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust is a member of the Business Disability Forum and is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.
In addition to the basic salary for all Agenda for Change posts, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust in line with the NHS Agenda for Change provides 15% or 20% High Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) dependant on the location of your role. The supplement is subject to minimum and maximum payment.
High Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) for part time employee will be based on the part time salary.
Please note, the selection processes at London Ambulance Service are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications is monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.
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If you are successful at interview and offered employment, your personal details will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Pre-employment checks will be required for all applicants who are issued with a conditional offer of employment. This includes Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) checks as required for the post and registration with the DBS update service. Documents presented for the purpose of Identity Checks will be verified for authenticity via an ID Scanner. The security features to be checked include machine readable zone, ultra violet image and infra-red image.
The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust reserves the right to close adverts before the published closing date due to high volumes of applications received.
If you do not hear back from us within four weeks of the advert closing date, please assume that you have not been successful at the shortlisting stage.
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