Job summary
- Main area
- Estates apprentice Mechanical Technician
- Grade
- Band 5 Annex 21
- Contract
- Apprenticeship: 3 years (Annex 21)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 343-7379270-FM-SC
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Epsom Hospital, St Helier Hospital, Sutton Health & Care & Surrey Downs
- Town
- Epsom
- Salary
- £21,457 - £32,599 Annex 21
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Apprentice Mechanical Technician - Apprenticeship
Band 5 Annex 21
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
ESTH Trust are looking for Apprentice Estates Mechanical Technicians to work in Property maintenance at a AFC Band 5 ( Annex 21 )- 37.5 hours a week
This role will be required to work trust-wide across Epsom, St Helier Hospitals,
· The duties include training to become a Mechanical technician capable of highly complex fault finding and maintenance on all aspects of engineering plant and equipment throughout the Trust.
· The duties must be carried out within stringent timescales and within statutory guidelines.
· The post holder will have day to day contact with the internal and external stakeholders regarding sensitive, complex and confidential issues.
· They will present verbal, written and numerical issues, explaining complexities, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
· To provide stakeholders updates and potential disruptions, to organise planned shutdowns.
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If you are interested and available please apply today.
Annex 21 pay would progress as follows:
- More than three years from completion of professional training & competencies: 60 per cent of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate.
- More than two but less than three year : 65 per cent of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate;
- More than one but less than two years: 70 per cent of the pay band maximum of the qualified rate
- Up to 12 months: 75 per cent of the pay band maximum of the fully qualified rate.
Main duties of the job
· To conduct PPM and reactive tasks
· To fault find on complex mechanical systems
· To help and escort of contractors
· To manage personal jobs on the CAFM via PDA
· To be part of the on-call rota
· To support in mechanical system shut downs and isolations
Working for our organisation
The Trust’s mission is ‘to put the patient first and deliver great care to every patient, every day’. Our priorities are to create a “one team, one trust” culture and focus on the delivery of the following five objectives to ensure we provide high quality, compassionate care to all of our patients:
• Delivering safe and effective care across our sites
• Creating a positive experience that meets the expectations of our patients, their families and carers
• Providing responsive care that delivers the right treatment, in the right place at the right time
• Being financially sustainable
• Working in partnership with our patients, commissioners, other health and care providers, local authorities, the voluntary sector, the NHS TDA, NHS England and Monitor in the interests of our patients and a sustainable local health and social care economy.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Technical , to work towards
· To carry out planned preventative maintenance of Calorifiers, Heat Exchangers, and pumpsets.
· To identify and rectify faults of high/medium/low pressurised Heating and Domestic Hot Water Systems including boiler resets.
· To fault find on complex Air Handling Units and Refrigeration Plant, and to carry out regular, Planned Preventative Maintenance when required.
· To find and rectify faults on Medical Gas equipment, i.e. changing of O-rings/washers, and to work on ‘live’ systems when supervised.
· To operate Building Management Systems and to interrogate programmes and change parameters when required.
· To carryout tap and TMV maintenance when required, cleaning, disinfectants and temperature setting.
· Install of plumbing goods, toilets, sinks, macerators, point of use water heaters
Information and reporting
• Responsible as part of the local team for the information upkeep of the CAFM
• To investigate incidents and report back into the management structure.
• To produce engineering reports where requested, for safety groups and trust committees as example
Technology or system support
• Be conversant with the CAFM via handheld PDA system
• Be conversant with BMS and Bold systems
Communications and Engagement
• Provide and receive complex information to managers and end users
• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information
• Communicates technical project related information with other professionals, both internal and external personnel, including senior managers, directors, to ensure that work undertaken conforms to all statutory and HTM requirements.
• To work effectively with relative services within the trusts to ensure that due process and governance is followed in the delivery of additional works
General responsibilities
• To support the department and organisation by carrying out any other duties that reasonably fit within the broad scope of a job of this grade and type of work.
• Assist visitors, patients and staff during incidental contact
• When required assist in grievances and disciplinary issues
Please see attached Job description for detailed responsibilities and Person specification.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working with advanced plumbing and/or mechanical systems. • Fault finding on mechanical with skills to isolate, keep running and fully repair. • Experience of delivering safe water services tasks, temperature monitoring, cleaning and chlorination of taps/TMV’s and falt finding on systems.
Desirable criteria
- • To have experience in working within healthcare premises • Working with a PDA installed with CAFM, MICAD and Zetasafe .
Skills
Essential criteria
- • To have the ability to read and understand technical drawings and specifications • :You have knowledge & awareness of diversity and human rights as appropriate to your role • You are able to communicate effectively to ensure high standards of care, treatment, service or support as appropriate to your role, • Able to provide a customer focussed service • Strong team and personal organisational and time management skills to manage competing priorities and deadlines, to act from individuals to large groups • To be able to work effectively in a fast paced environment ensuring all paperwork, drawings and reports are correct.
Desirable criteria
- • To be qualified and certificated in IOSH Management; • Ability to analyses complex problems and to develop and workable solutions to address them.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Other requirements• Has a good understanding of policies and procedures governing their area of work. • Self-motivated and proactive with a can-do attitude and track record delivery • Able to work autonomously • Able to demonstrate that you are honest, reliable and trustworthy • Treat patients, visitors, colleagues with respect • Ability to travel between Trust sites • Ability to be flexible to meet the needs of the team, the service and the Trust • To have excellent interpersonal and presentation skills; • To be able to work on own initiative and without direct supervision; • To be able to take a lead role in meetings with contractors and Trust staff. • Work in unpleasant conditions for example undercroft, and sewage lines
mechainical apprentice
Essential criteria
- GSCE (grade 9-4) Maths English & a science
- Undertaking a mechanical apprenticeship
Desirable criteria
- Healthcare experience
- Trade experience
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
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Text: 07501066267
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- James Walters
- Job title
- Head of Estates
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07786334375
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