Job summary
- Main area
- Engineer
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 2 years ([email protected])
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 411-COR-25-7457263
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Hospital Campus and Remote Sites
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- Pro Rata
- Closing
- 27/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Multi Skilled Electrical Engineer
NHS AfC: Band 5
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
Right to work: We actively promote diversity and inclusion. Please note that this role is unlikely to meet the eligibility requirements for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa
The post-holder will be employed on a wide range of complex fault-finding and maintenance duties. He/she will be responsible for maintaining all Building Fabric, Mechanical, Electrical, and building infrastructure services, and equipment within Alder Hey.
The post-holder will provide technical assistance to their mechanical, electrical, and building colleagues and contractors ensuring compliance with the Trust’s safety standards and procedures for all relevant systems.
The post-holder will undertake complex fault diagnosis and fault rectification, maintenance and capital work across the Trust. In addition, planning minor improvement works as directed by management. To be responsible for the calibration of mechanical installations Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) and the Reactive Maintenance (RM) of all Alder Hey Estates services and plant.
Main duties of the job
1. To be aware of the workings of the Buildings and Mechanical systems within the Healthcare environment and to carry out essential maintenance and repair of such areas.
To be responsible for the skilled and semi-skilled maintenance activities on the Trusts engineering assets
To carry out equipment surveys, audits and visual inspections as requested by the line manager.
Carry out planned preventative maintenance inspections, adjustments, and commissioning.
7. To carry out small routine maintenance support work across all trades in a safe environment and to a high quality.
To possess the IPAF card to enable the post holder to carry out ladder/Kick Stool inspections in a timely manner across the Trust entering the dates and results on the spread sheet provided.
To ensure all check lists/advice notes are utilised to comply with the departments PPM Policy.
To maintain credible liaison with other department on matters that relate to the installation and maintenance of equipment e.g. CBU Managers and other Department Heads.
Working for our organisation
Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please revert to job description/person specification for full details and main responsibilities of the job.
Person specification
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Years experience, qualifications gained
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
- Chris Gildea
- Job title
- Head of Campus Services and Compliance
- Email address
- [email protected]
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