Job summary
- Main area
- General Maintenance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Days)
- Job ref
- 160-7305214
- Employer
- The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Walton Centre
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/08/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Estates Multi-Skilled Maintenance Operative
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
· Skilled craftsperson will be employed on work appropriate to their specialist skills.
· They will have the ability to fulfil their duties with a total commitment to versatility and will be suitably trained to acquire elements of other skills, as required, reaching levels of flexibility and competence to enable them to achieve and apply their abilities, where required.
Main duties of the job
· To carry out a range of maintenance duties across the Foundation Trust premises, including repair of faults in mechanical and electrical installations; plant and equipment, painting, building fabric, grounds and gardens and general support across all core-engineering trades.
Working for our organisation
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust is the only NHS trust to hold dual accreditation for the Investors in People. We invest in people and we invest in wellbeing standards and have been awarded Gold status for both. The Walton Centre is a leader in the treatment and care of neurology and neurosurgery, placing the patient and their family at the heart of everything we do. As the only specialist hospital trust in the UK dedicated to providing comprehensive neurology, neurosurgery, spinal and pain management services we are proud to be rated as an Outstanding Trust by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and champion change throughout the field of neuroscience. Originally formed in 1992, the Trust received Foundation Trust status in 2009.
With around 1,450 staff, The Walton Centre treats more than 127,000 outpatients and 18,000 inpatients each year. We have leading specialists and incredibly dedicated staff delivering excellent clinical outcomes for brain, spinal and neurological care nationally and internationally. Teams across our site in Fazakerley, Liverpool, offer a world-class service in diagnosing and treating injuries and illnesses affecting the brain, spine and peripheral nerves and muscles, and in supporting people suffering from a wide range of long-term neurological conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Carry out planned preventative maintenance, installation, modification and repairs to Hospital plant equipment and property including external doors, fire doors, access doors, wooden, plastic and aluminum windows, flooring, suspended ceilings, walls, fire proofing, electrical and mechanical closers, various types of locks and locking mechanisms, interior and external signage, fencing and various fixing and fixtures, glass and glazing. Maintain decorations both internal and external of all Trust properties and cleanliness of fabric, plant and equipment. Manufacture, assemble and erect new work including shelving, notice boards, display systems, frames, screens, doors and frames, screens and partitions. Working with speed and accuracy, use of relevant power, hand tools and fixed machinery, use of fire tools and maintenance of same. |
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good standard of general education, GCSE Maths & English or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Health and safety qualification
- Working at heights Certificate
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant relevant experience and background in the maintenance industry
- Significant experience of working within a healthcare environment.
- Have good understanding of the relationship of other craftsmen’s work to own work.
- Experience of other maintenance and building activities in a range of settings
- Understanding of Confidentiality and Information Governance
- Knowledge of health and safety practice relevant to the building and engineering industry
- Full participation in and commitment to continual professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Significant experience working in a complex building maintenance environment in a trade other than core trade.
- Basic electrical safety training to be able to fulfil duties without support of other trades.
- Understand the working of the mechanical and/or electrical and/or plumbing and/or gas systems in NHS buildings.
- Joinery ability
- Model water by-laws
- Legionella control
- Air Handling Systems
- Basic fault finding
Skills & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent inter-personal and communications skills
- Ability to fulfil a requirement to interpret and work from all instructions, drawings and specifications appropriate to original trade, without supervision
- Familiar with hand and power tools
- To communicate technical information to staff, colleagues, manufacturers and members of the public.
- To communicate effectively with peers, senior colleagues and service users on a daily basis information related to the Estates service.
- To have organisational skills in order to plan, prioritise and negotiate with other healthcare professionals in obtaining access to equipment in order to perform routine maintenance and/or repairs at mutually convenient times
- To train and supervise less experienced staff
- Have good understanding of the relationship of other craftsmen’s work to own work.
- Understanding of Confidentiality and Information Governance
- Knowledge of health and safety practice relevant to the building and engineering industry
Desirable criteria
- Ability to diagnose and repair faults in basic electrical systems i.e. fire doors, lighting circuits, power circuits.
- Basic electrical and mechanical knowledge in relation to plant for shutting down to clean and maintain
- Ability to support and assist with engineering emergencies using own initiative.
- Ability to glaze windows, fit and maintain locks
Other
Essential criteria
- Self -motivation and the ability to influence/motivate others
- Have a willingness to take responsibility
- To have a friendly disposition, a helpful manner and co -operative approach
- To have a professional approach in discharging duties
- To present a smart and tidy appearance
- To be sensitive to patient dignity and privacy
- To possess an ability to prioritise tasks
- To be able to accommodate frequent interruptions/disruption and recover concentration
- Willingness to work to service requirements, e.g. unsocial hours
- Duties involve walking for prolonged periods, with occasional working in remote hot/dusty/cold plant room/basement areas, this can be physically demanding, necessitating a good level of health and fitness
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Matthew Condron
- Job title
- Estates Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 556 3100
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