Job summary
- Main area
- Maintenance Craftsperson - Electrician
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On-call)
- Job ref
- 357-LN-318-25-QIA689-D
- Employer
- United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lincoln County Hospital
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Maintenance Craftsperson - Electrician - Band 4
NHS AfC: Band 4
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our values guide everything we do. They are:
- Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
- Safety – Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
- Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
- Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
- Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
So, what is in it for you?
- Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.
Types of flexibility could include:
- Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
- Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
- Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
- Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
- Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
- NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
- Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
- Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.
In addition, there is more.
- Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
- Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
- Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
- Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
- Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.
Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Job overview
Your Hospitals Need You! Not all superheroes wear capes, some are even Hospital Engineers.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) are seeking a number of highly motivated Estates Craftpersons (Electrical Bias) who will be based in the Estates department at Lincoln Hospital. The post holder required to play a proactive part within the Estates Technical team to meet Trust objectives in a safe, cost effective, efficient manner in compliance with legislation and good practice.
There is no better time to join the team at ULHT, we are developing our operational estates team in order to support the Trust on its continuous development plan, our aims and ambitions are set high and we want you to be part of the developing journey with us. Have you got the ambition to make your hospital a better place for the community? Have you got the passion about engineering? Are you wanting to learn new skills and become a true rounded engineer with skills in which some areas are only specialist in the Healthcare, if this sounds like a challenge you are looking for then apply today.
We know you may be able to earn more elsewhere – but what we offer you is job security, stability, development, a strong team focused environment where you will feel a sense of belonging. Although, better than all of that, is the chance to really give something back to the NHS with the skills, knowledge, experience and attributes you have to help us achieve outstanding care personally delivered
Main duties of the job
· Ensure that maintenance activities are effectively recorded, signed and dated appropriately and evidence based.
· Support and encourage multi-disciplinary working.
· Encourage team working in all aspects of team focused department performance.
· Provide a role model for others to emulate, working alongside colleagues and exhibiting high standards of professional behaviour.
· Challenge traditional practice, seeking improved methods of task delivery which improve quality, safety and working practices.
· Carry out duties in a safe, clean and effective way in accordance with Trust Policies, Procedures, Legislative guidance, and best industry practice.
· Support the development of team roles through mentoring and shadowing, allowing the teams to learn from your skills.
· Maintain accurate records for reactive and planned activities.
Personal Skills/Qualities
- Excellent Communication Skills, Written and Verbal
- work on own initiative, to act independently and seek advice as necessary within the parameters of the expected work activities Able to plan, organise and manage own work activities.
- Comply with relevant policies, guidance and statutory regulations.
- Able to work to agreed timescales
- Able to Drive and have a Valid full UK driving Licence or applicable UK approved Driving Licence
Working for our organisation
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What should you do next?
Have a look at the job description and if you like what you see then apply today. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. Your NHS needs you!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Appropriate City and Guilds Qualification, NVQ3 or equivalent in Electrical Engineering
- Served an apprenticeship or other recognised training.
Desirable criteria
- Focused training such as BMS, Control systems, Door access systems, fire systems in depth training and experience.
- Additional Hospital Engineering related certified training
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in the maintenance of mechanical and electrical plant and services and fault finding within a similar organisation or similar size and complexity organisation.
- Experience of working in a similar organisation or similar size and complexity organisation.
- Appreciation of other maintenance services
Desirable criteria
- Experience of maintenance in a hospital environment. In particular: - Air conditioning, refrigeration, fire alarms, building management systems, nurse call systems, standby power supplies
Evidence of Particular: - Knowledge - Skills - Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of electrical regulations, and associated safety procedures
- Able to diagnose faults in complicated engineering and building plant and equipment.
- Able to work safely and have a sound knowledge of Health and Safety legislation in the built environment
- Demonstrable problem-solving skills
- Work co-operatively with colleagues
- Ability to work with minimum of guidance
- Good manual dexterity Logical and systematic approach to work tasks
- Exchanges maintenance, technical project-related information with specialists, non-specialists; negotiates with contractors or suppliers
- Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework
Desirable criteria
- Management of contractors
- Evidence of self-advancement.
- Experienced in working with safe systems of work process and permits to work.
- Be able to work within a pressured environment
- Able to act efficiently taking a ‘hands on’ role in an emergency.
- Imaginative outlook
- Experience of working in a large organisation
Specific Requirements
Essential criteria
- Good interpersonal skills
- Versatile and flexible in approach
- Self-starter
- Physically fit
- Capable of meeting manual handling criteria
- Able to work at heights, adverse conditions i.e., Heat, dirt, and cramped conditions
- Sympathetic when working in patient proximities i.e., working in operating theatres, wards and mortuaries
- Work on own initiative
- Confident.
- Able to cross site travel
- Provide a commitment to return to work outside of normal working hours
- Will take part in the Estates On-Call Rota
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Adam Turver
- Job title
- Estates Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07917297689
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