Job summary
- Main area
- Electrical Technician
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-0388-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern General Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/06/2025
Employer heading
Electrical Technician
NHS AfC: Band 5
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
The postholder will assist the Estates Directorate to carry out or oversee the repair, maintenance or installation of complex plant, equipment and buildings belonging to the Trust.
This will require a multi skilled approach with additional responsibilities in nominated specialist Estates roles, as well as the full range of duties associated with the post holder’s core craft trade.
The job is intended to be flexible in terms of managing operational maintenance services and requires mobility and cover across all of the Trust properties.
Main duties of the job
The Estates Directorate provide a comprehensive Estate Management Service to all of the Trust’s properties.
The purpose of this job is to assist the Estates Directorate to carry out or oversee the repair, maintenance or installation of complex plant, equipment and buildings belonging to the Trust.
This will require a multi skilled approach with additional responsibilities in nominated specialist Estates roles, as well as the full range of duties associated with the post holder’s core craft trade.
Professionally the post holder will be expected to uphold the Trust’s PROUD values and behaviours and behave in a manner befitting the responsible position of the role and in the best interests of the patients we serve.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in an industrial or contracting role
- Extensive experience of working in a Building Services Operational environment on the full range of craft duties including maintenance, fault finding and installation.
- Experience in complex Engineering Services maintenance with a demonstrable track record of competence and ability to take the lead.
- Experience of taking an active role in Emergency contingency planning procedures for example Standby Generators or other back up systems
- Recognised Craft Apprenticeship
- Be trained and competent to use workshop equipment
- Good knowledge of Health and Safety, Asbestos, COSHH, Confined Spaces, Electrical safety
Desirable criteria
- Experience gained in Healthcare establishment(s)
- Experience in the preparation of designs, estimates and project management of maintenance works and small projects.
- Supervisory experience
- The ability to interpret NHS guidance and statutory requirements into practical maintenance policies
- The ability to interpret the client’s requirements into effective solutions
- Knowledge, understanding of Health Technical Memoranda and other guidance as it relates to the Estate Management function.
- Awareness and knowledge of the CDM Regulations
- Maintenance, Fault finding, repair, validation and testing across a range of equipment as may be specific to the job for example; Decontamination equipment, Laundry, equipment, Dental Chairs and equipment, HV/LV electrical distribution and back up equipment, Ventilation equipment, Medical Gas.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of Estates maintenance procedures (electrical or mechanical) acquired via taught courses and relevant experience to graduate professional level, or equivalent experience of Estates Health Care in some capacity.
- ONC / City and Guilds /NVQ3 along with relevant experience demonstrating knowledge at a technician level.
- Completion of a recognised trade CITB/EITB apprenticeship in an appropriate craft plus a high degree of versatility and demonstrable experience in a similar technical discipline at NVQ3.
Desirable criteria
- Competent Person in one or more of the specialist areas of HV/LV, Medical Gas, Ventilation, Decontamination, Water Safety Relevant to the post skill set.
- HNC in a relevant Engineering subject
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Must be prepared to undertake training as required to achieve the full potential of the position at competent person level
- Must be willing to undertake training on BMS systems and associated services
Desirable criteria
- Up to Authorised Person level
Special Skills / Apititudes
Essential criteria
- Good team player/Team leader
- Good communicator with excellent interpersonal skills
- Numerate
- Computer literate
- Commitment to excellent customer service
- Planning skills
- Able to plan own work load be flexible and prioritise tasks
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Adaptable and flexible according to the demands of the service
- Understanding of the need to maintain confidentiality
Other Factors
Essential criteria
- Must be passionately and enthusiastically committed to provision of a high quality, responsive maintenance service.
- Must be self-motivated and able to work with the minimum of supervision.
- Prepared to provide cover to Chargehands and Shifts as the need arises
Desirable criteria
- Full UK driving licence
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
- Wayne Keyworth
- Job title
- Electrical Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2714264
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