Job summary
- Main area
- Electrical Technician
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-LC352
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £32,602 - £39,686 per annum including HCAS + additional R&R £3,600 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Mobile Electrical Technician
Band 5
Job overview
Estates Maintenance Technician Electrical – Join Our Team at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust!
🔧 Are you skilled, hands-on, and eager to support the vital work of the NHS?
⏳ Rotating Shifts (including on-call)
🔧 Play a Key Role in Maintaining Our Hospitals – Join Our Estates Team!
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a proactive and hardworking Estates Electrical Maintenance Technician to support the smooth operation of our hospital facilities. This role is essential in ensuring a safe, efficient, and well-maintained environment for patients, staff, and visitors.
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
Main duties of the job
What You’ll Do:
✔️ Carry out skilled maintenance tasks across hospital sites
✔️ Conduct plant room checks and monitor essential systems
✔️ Carry out engineering maintenance and repair work
✔️ Ensure compliance with safety and operational standards
What We’re Looking For:
🔹 Skilled electrician able to work in a healthcare environment
🔹 Ability to work as part of a team and follow instructions
🔹 Good problem-solving skills and attention to detail
🔹 Willingness to learn and develop within an NHS Estates team
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
DIMENSIONS OF JOB:
To be responsible for the service, testing and diagnose repairs needed to plant and equipment, including ordering of parts and fitment, within the trust buildings and plant. Be able to calibrate advanced mechanical and electrical installations including electronics. Understand, interrogate and rectify faults on the Building Management System. Take part in an on-call system and provide the hospital with late shift cover and stand in for leave and sick. Safe operation of plant and systems, steam, water treatment and electricity.
PURPOSE OF JOB:
Assist the Estates Supervisor with all aspects to PPM and SPM to provide a safe compliant environment for staff and patients.
KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
1 Carry out maintenance and minor works on engineering plant, equipment and services.
2 Act as lead for direction and guidance with regard to mechanical services for other craftsman within the department.
3 Carry out all duties in a safe and compliant way.
4 To assist/ advice personnel in relation to Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM, SPM) issues within the lead roll.
5 To be self motivated and take control of any break down/repairs ordering new parts and keeping the team leader and supervisor up-dated with progress.
6 Keep training and registration up to date with regard to current standards and amendments.
7 To advise other department managers with regard to small electrical/ mechanical improvement/ project works and assist with budget costs for work under his/her supervision.
8 To be able to time manage work and actively record times to enable the department to meet the trusts set Tasks per man for ten hours.
9 To liaise with departmental managers with regard to shutdowns and interruption to service for works to be carried out by direct labour or contractors.
10 Participate in the departments on call.
11 Be available to work outside normal working hours.
12 To be actively involved in the training and development of staff including apprentices.
13 Participate in the trust appraisal system
14 To ensure an effective and responsive approach to customer care.
15 Carry out condition reports and report back with written report on plant and equipment to enable management forecast back log spend.
16 Understanding of HTM’s 01, Decontamination, 03 Heating and Ventilation, 04 Water Systems,
17. Cross site working (mobile) between Frimley Health owned and managed sites.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 3 City & Guilds Craft or NVQ equivalents electrical installation/maintenance or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- IEE 18th Edition
- Gas Safe registered/ trained
- ONC
- Water bylaws
- Lift Trained
- Nurse call systems trained
- BMS Understanding/ qualification
- Hydro pool trained
- Decontamination control, trained (autoclaves)
- Medical gas trained
Experience
Essential criteria
- Prior experience in an engineering service
- Experience in training colleagues in an Estates department
- Experience working in the building trades
- Experience working in large industrial/commercial environments
Desirable criteria
- Service within the field of maintenance, focus on service supply, problem solving keeping the client informed.
- Problem solving BMS systems
- Experience working in an Acute Hospital Environment
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- Be available for out of hours/on-call duties
- Be able to travel between Trust sites when required
- Be able to work overtime at short notice.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good IT skills
- Ability to cope with demanding scenarios.
- Good organisational skills and ability to address and develop solutions to problems.
- A dedicated and committed member of a team.
- Customer service skills
- Ability and willingness to undertake emergency-situation repairs.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of HTMs
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
- Nicholas Sharp
- Job title
- Senior Operations Manager Estates
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07769186620
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