Electrician Technician - Estates Maintenance

Electrician Technician - Estates Maintenance

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

The closing date is 11 March 2026

We are recruiting for an Electrician Technician who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for a technician with an electrical background and will conduct, with minimum supervision, maintenance and installation work on all facilities, plant, and equipment throughout East and North Herts NHS Teaching Trust.

They will provide reliable technical engineering advice and support for the maintenance of equipment, fabric, and utility services for the trust.

This role will involve an On Call rota of 1 in 5 weeks.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:
Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

The post holder will be diagnosing and repairing faults on Healthcare Building Services which includes the following equipment:

Hot water boilers, sterilizers, washer disinfectors, electrical distribution services, motors, heating and ventilating plant and controls, fire, nurse call and panic/intruder alarms, heating and ventilating plant and controls and carry out planned preventive maintenance tasks on the said equipment.

The successful candidate will be responsible for ordering engineering spares, materials and equipment needed to undertake the works.

You will understand the working layout and operation of healthcare Building Services including engineering, plumbing and electrical systems on all the Trust's properties and instruct others on maintenance and inspection.

The post holder should be able to travel between various hospital sites. A mileage allowance will be paid for this facility if own vehicle is used.

You will also deal with new situations as they arise and pass on knowledge to others.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

• Approved Apprenticeship, NVQ Level 3, or City Guilds Technicians Certificate, BTEC ONC or equivalent in relevant topics
• Current IEE 18th Edition
• Health and Safety qualification/ certification.
  
  E.g. (Risk assessment training)

• Experience of working in a demanding environment with many, sometimes conflicting priorities
• Experience in electrical maintenance and repair
• Experience of working within a team and own initiative
• Knowledge of HTM 06.02

• High degree of accuracy and diligence.
• Has the ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Able to solve problems or pre-empt problems by employing appropriate measures and processes.
• Commitment to, and experience of, multi-professional working arrangements and projects

• Exceptional understanding of electrical maintenance and repair
• Exceptional understanding and working knowledge of technical specifications required for electrical maintenance and repair
• Exceptional understanding and working knowledge of health and safety standards for electrical maintenance and repair.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust