Main area: Estates Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work) Job ref: 435-UHMBX220125 Site: Furness General Hospital Town: Barrow in Furness Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Dependant on experience Salary period: Yearly Closing: 05/02/2025 23:59 Job overview
The Estates department at Furness General Hospital is a group of highly skilled electrical, mechanical and plumbing engineers, creative building craftpersons, and dedicated support staff. We are looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic Building Services Engineer to join us. You should be an experienced and time-served Electrician, Plumber, or Mechanical Engineer looking to progress your career. You will be part of a 7 person shift team providing 24/7 cover to the FGH and Millom hospital sites, and will be trained to specialise in healthcare ventilation and decontamination. Main duties of the job
To ensure the safe and continuous operation of all engineering and building plant and equipment, in accordance with statutory requirements, codes of practice, guidance notes and Trust procedures to an agreed standard. Out of normal office hours site maintenance responsibility. To be the department’s point of contact for all out of hours incidents and breakdowns, carrying out first line assessment, fault finding, repair, substitute of service and/or safe isolation as required. To be the Trust’s Fire Controlling Officer and undertake the duties of that role for the site as a whole during a fire event. To be appointed Authorised Person for roles within Health Technical Memoranda (HTM) 1 to 8. To carry out line manager duties for contractors. Person specification
Qualifications
Full Electrical, Mechanical or Plumbing and Heating apprenticeship up to HNC/HND + Specialist knowledge in relevant area or equivalent degree level experience. The following NHS specific training will be provided and must be undertaken in the first 12 months of post. HTM 02 - Authorised Person Medical Gas HTM 03 - Authorised Person/Competent Person Ventilation combined HTM 04 - Competent Person Water HTM 06 - Competent Person LV CP/AP Pressure Systems Boiler Operator Training Willingness to undertake further training Experience
Experience of engineering and building services installations Experience of HTM's and HBN's Experience of the capital bidding process Experience of security systems Experience and knowledge of legal, statutory, and non-statutory legislation Skills
Ability to deal with information confidentially and sensitively Ability to work unsupervised including within unsociable hours Excellent communication on all levels Good leadership, influencing, planning, and team building skills Good analytical skill Personal Qualities
Ability to comply with all trust policies Ability to travel between trust sites as required Can demonstrate flexibility in approach to work patterns PLEASE NOTE THAT SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL. The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities where ever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be Effortlessly Inclusive. The trust operates a No Smoking Policy. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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