Job summary
- Main area
- Joiner
- Grade
- Atlas Level 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 382-ATL30-24
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £24,650 - £29,801 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Joiner
Atlas Level 5
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
Please note that this role is advertised on behalf of Atlas BFW Management Ltd (Atlas), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and as such, successful applicant(s) will be on Atlas Terms and Conditions. For further information about Atlas, please visit: www.bfwml.co.uk
The post holder will undertake repairs, maintenance and installation work appropriate to core specialist skills across all healthcare facilities, dealing with mainly the joinery fabric, fixtures and fittings but will also include a comprehensive range of other building structures and fittings.
Please ensure you have read attached Job Description & Person Specification, before applying for the role.
Main duties of the job
Undertake unsupervised non routine joinery, carpentry diagnostic and repair work that requires the attention of a fully qualified craftsman related to his training and/or experience including those items listed above and other systems, structures and equipment as required using any specialized materials or equipment as necessary.
Both the former and the latter of the above will cover work relating to:
- Woodworking machinery operation and routine servicing
- Fire insulation work
- Glazing
- Locksmith work
- Wood treatment
- Furniture repairs and assembly
- Door and window manufacture
- Fire door repair and maintenance
- Powered door control mechanism repair and replacement
- Suspended ceilings
- Window blinds and curtain tracking systems
- Manufacture and assembly of general joinery fittings and fixtures
- Tiling
- Minor building / small works.
Working for our organisation
As experts in healthcare facilities and property management, we deliver fully-managed healthcare facilities services and property management solutions to clients throughout Lancashire and South Cumbria.
We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This means that we part of the Trust’s group and the wider NHS family, but are a separate Limited Company, with our own business plan, board, management structure and staff.
Any profits that we make are used to help grow our business, provide additional employment, training and development for our staff, whilst helping to support the Trust’s frontline clinical services, and the delivery of safe patient care.
Our healthcare facilities services and property management solutions encompass: Capital Developments, Estates Management, Facilities Management, Medical Engineering and Property Services.
Our teams ensure our clients properties and amenities provide the best environment for their customers, patients, staff and visitors.
Visit: bfwml.co.uk for further information.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Carry out work in confined spaces where necessary utilising the correct and appropriate PPE.
· Carry out the duties of the post using relevant power or hand tools and equipment as required.
· Demonstrate a good knowledge of statutory legislation, health and safety legislation and workshop safety practices in relation to the post, staff, patients and public.
· Instruct and assist others on all systems and equipment and any other aspects of his/her work.
· To liaise with management, contractors or suppliers to identify materials and equipment required for the repair or maintenance of building systems, structures or equipment.
· To operate where necessary within the constraints of a formal permit to work system to ensure safe and satisfactory compliance with any applicable legislative requirements.
· Participate in the preparation of formal or informal Risk assessments and method statements in support of Permits to Work or work of a higher than average risk level.
· Ensure a safe working environment is maintained for self and others, taking appropriate action as necessary in line with legislation, Trust and departmental requirements.
· Lift and manoeuvre potentially heavy goods, materials and equipment in accordance with manual handling regulations and good practice.
· Undertake training as necessary in order to maintain competency levels and learn new skills as may be reasonably requested.
· Understand, appreciate and at all times promote co-operation within the department and between the department and its clients.
· To guarantee to produce work to consistently high standards across the whole range of duties.
· Assist other trades in the performance of their duties as required and as required to do so in either an active or a safety role.
· Be prepared to accept abnormal start and finish times in order to carry out work areas of a sensitive nature in order to cause minimum disruption to patients, public or staff.
· To carry out work in all areas of the estate owned or maintained by the Trust.
· Maintain in a clear orderly and concise fashion all required work records and test data.
· The department aspires to operate a multi skill system therefore it is expected that whilst each craftsman has a core trade he/she will be expected to show a willingness and ability to perform tasks beyond those of the core trade.
· Must hold a current clean drivers licence and be prepared to drive trust vehicles as required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Hold a current clean driving licence.
- The post holder will have served a recognised and registered apprenticeship and hold a minimum City and Guilds level 3 Craft Certificate in carpentry and joinery or similar trade certificate in the relevant core skills. Previous appropriate working experience within a maintenance environment of at least two years post apprenticeship will be required.
Knowledge & Experience: Specialist
Essential criteria
- Experience as a joiner within the maintenance environment
- Good interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Excellent ability to communicate effectively in writing, verbally and face to face
- Be able to use PDA/Tablet/Mobile Device
Desirable criteria
- A general understanding of the NHS procurement process Experience of facilitating partnership working, decision making and conflict resolution
Knowledge & Experience: General
Essential criteria
- Excellent working knowledge and understanding of the provision of maintenance services and compliance requirements in the given service functions.
- Good organizational skills, ability to prioritize and organize their own workloads
- Skilled at working with multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to manage own time
- Able to exercise independent judgment
- Experienced at working under pressure and delivering to challenging deadlines.
- Multi-tasking skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Paterson
- Job title
- Estates Building Suprvisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 953592
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