Job summary
- Main area
- Mechanical maintenance
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 272-7257721
- Employer
- Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bassetlaw District General Hospital
- Town
- Worksop
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Mechanical Craftsperson
Band 5
Job overview
To participate in the effective and efficient day to day operation and maintenance of all types of engineering plant and equipment associated with a modern day NHS Foundation Trust Hospital.
Maintenance Craftsperson will be employed on work appropriate to their core specialist skills and should possess levels of flexibility and competence to allow them to perform the following.
Performs work including activities, which are complex, and/or non-routine. Responsible for calibration and fault finding on a wide range of engineering plant and equipment (steam, raising plant and associated equipment, sterilizers, washer/disinfectors, piped medical gas systems, low pressure hot water systems and natural gas systems.
Main duties of the job
Undertaking maintenance, repairs, minor improvements and minor capital work across the Trust, ensuring compliance with Trust safety standards and procedures.
Working for our organisation
DBTH is one of Yorkshire’s Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.
At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.
As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.
We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:
• Extensive range of learning opportunities
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read both documents carefully.
Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
Certificate of sponsorship
Applications from individuals who require a Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applicants. For further information and to check your eligibility for this post please following the link UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK. Please note that from April 9th 2025, band 2 & 3 entry roles are no longer eligible for sponsorship.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience on aspects of mechanical building services including boiler plant compressed air pumping installations
- Heating Controls
- Pressure systems
- Experience in fault diagnosis and have the ability to interpreted and analyse complex critical equipment and systems.
- Experience in identifying problems with Building management systems.
Desirable criteria
- Heating and ventilation systems, carrying out annual verification of Critical AHU system in accordance with HTM03-01
- Piped medical gas systems
- Decontamination equipment – sterilizers, washer disinfectors
- Working in a frontline customer service based organisation
- Experience in identifying and rectification of legionella risk assessment surveys.
- Experience in identifying and rectification complex problems in mechanical systems.
- Experience in using CAFM software(Planet)
- Air conditioning systems
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Mechanical engineering apprenticeship
Desirable criteria
- Customer care and team based working
- Gas Safe regulations
- CP Water, CP Vent , CP Medical Gas , CP Pressure
- C & G Part II Full Technological Cert
- Course 205-3 Mechanical Engineering Maintenance Part 2
- Electrical skills training
Personal attributes and Skills
Essential criteria
- Multi-disciplinary team working
- Communicate effectively verbal and written
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Time management skills
- Able to prioritise workload
- Excellent diagnostic and fault finding skills
- General Computer skills
- Familiar with PPM Management systems and Data bases
- Liaise with specialist service contractor
- Liaise with departmental managers
- Team player conscientious and methodical
- Willing to participate in flexible versatile working, out of hours working, recall to work across all Trust sites
- Participate in NVQ training
- Ability to address problems and seek solutions
- Participate in the on call rota for mechanical staff
Desirable criteria
- Effective communication style.
- Self-motivated
- Effectively communicate both technical and non-technical advice to clinical professionals
- Liaison between estates and other directorate to provide effective communication where service delivery or there is a risk to patient care
- Ability to effectively communicate with patients to provide reassurance and information about estates activities
- Experience of carrying out point of work risk assessment.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Brett Spruce
- Job title
- Estates Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07721116577
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