Maintenance Technician -Plumbing

The key function is to support NHS Property Services in delivering building services maintenance and repairs across the NHS to ensure buildings are maintained to the highest standards and to provide a safe and secure environment for visitors, customers, and employees.

Ensure compliance in line with all processes/procedures and policies that meets organisational standards/requirements including but not limited to our Health & Safety Policy/HTMs (Health Technical Memoranda) and SFG
20. Ensuring new or revised policies are implemented within own work areas. Deliver planned and reactive maintenance services from the PPM planner, ensuring that operational standards are maintained at all times. Duties may include (but not limited to) fault finding, minors repairs or installations and maintaining services and equipment within critical environments. Ability to assess problems to determine the best course of action, this would include complex technical issues.

To maintain effective site log books at all NHS premises ensuring that they are completed in a timely and accurate manner. Work with and support the Projects/Construction team and Technical Supervisor in identifying, scoping, and delivering minor capital works for NHS premises. Able to plan and organise a number of complex activities and adapt within a changing and challenging work environment.

Able to provide solutions to problems and undertake new installations from design to completion.

Established in April 2013, the company is a limited company but also part of the wider NHS family. Having inherited responsibility for the facilities and property management functions previously managed by NHS primary care trusts and strategic health authorities, we own and run properties that range from listed buildings and former workhouses through to award-winning, state-of-the-art integrated health campuses. Our aim is to deliver a fit for purpose estate in partnership with NHS organisations, generating cost efficiencies that will benefit our tenants, patients and the wider health economy.

We have a great opportunity for a Maintenance Technician - Plumbing. This will be to join our team based in Wokingham - Wokingham Hospital 41 Barkham Road. This is a permanent, full time position working 37.5 hours per week. Monday-Friday 8am-4pm. The starting salary for this role is from £39,000 (depending on experience) plus on call allowance. This is a mobile role covering West Berkshire.

Requirements for the role:
Qualifications - At least one of the below:

• BTEC City & Guilds plus relevant experience and training.
• NVQ Level 3 in Plumbing & Heating Engineering or equivalent.
• Formal apprenticeship or craft trained equivalent.

Additional Requirements:

• Driving licence is essential
• Must be comfortable using technological devices to log jobs.
• On-Call availability
• Desirable to have industry experience
• Ability to work alone and/or as part of a wider team as this role will require you to work cohesively with other Technical Disciplines.

• Ensure compliance in accordance with all NHSPS Health, Safety & Wellbeing Policies, relevant NHSPS Technical Guidance, Process and Procedures, Statutory Regulations, Approved Codes of Practice and any applicable aspects of HTMs.
• Ensure that new or revised practice and policies are implemented within own work areas.
• Deliver Scheduled, Reactive and Remedial maintenance services as directed by the PPM planner (CAFM), helpdesk or Technical Services Supervisor, ensuring that operational standards are always maintained.
• Duties may include (but not limited to) fault finding, minors repairs or installations and maintaining services and equipment within critical environments.
• You may be required to undertake tasks in disciplines other than your own.
• Ability to assess problems to determine the best course of action, this would include complex technical issues and be able to communicate technical and or complex information to various stakeholders.
• To maintain effective site log books at all NHS premises where required, ensuring that they are completed in a timely and accurate manner.

• On-Call…