Posted Date
6/03/2025
Description
The post holder will provide a mechanical multiskilled service to the Community Engineering Department and other directorates within Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). Responsible for effective maintenance of the Trust’s technical infrastructure.
Through personal leadership, commitment and practice the post holder will secure the highest professional standards of engineering standards throughout the Trust. The post holder will be expected to work closely with the engineering teams, Capital development and environment teams
• Responsible for the effective implementation of the Community’s Health & Safety policies and protocols
• They will demonstrate total commitment, versatility and flexibility whilst undertaking all tasks and delegated work as instructed by the engineering team.
• Ability to organise and prioritise own workload where required and work unsupervised and independently.
• The post holder will be held to account for effective performance and will need to manage and balance competing priorities.
Professional
Management and Leadership
Financial Responsibility
Information Management
Education and Professional Development
Essentia is part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and is the in-house team responsible for non-clinical healthcare services. Essentia designs, builds and maintains healthcare infrastructure vital to the smooth running of healthcare services. This encompasses everything from construction projects and healthcare planning to waste management, housekeeping, transport and security. Essentia employs around 1,700 people, who provide essential facilities management support to clinical teams. It combines exceptionally high standards and public sector values with commercial focus, innovative thinking and modern technology to create the best possible patient experience. Essentia strives to be a great place to work, grow and build a career. The Essentia Way is:
• Working together
• Doing it well
• Looking after each other
We have a great NHS pension scheme, access to our own training academy, interest free season ticket loans and much more.
If you meet the person spec criteria, apply and you could be part of our Community Family.
Professional
· Carries out the responsibilities of a competent person for:
· Pressure Systems
· Ventilation Systems
· Confined Spaces
· L8 Legionella
· When working on call have delegated responsibility for all Trust engineering assets
· Works with complex workings of all mechanical/electrical building services plant and equipment located in NHS buildings.
· Responsible for calibrating and maintaining highly specialist equipment associated with pressure/ventilation and other computerised building control systems
· Install, service, test, diagnose and repair mechanical/electrical plant and equipment
· Implements interruptions of engineering services in close liaison with both engineering and clinical managers
· Carries out planned preventative and reactive maintenance on all of the Trust asset and engineering systems
· The duty holder (authorised person) takes responsibility for the engineering services on site whilst on duty.
· Deputises for the Mechanical Team Manager in their absence
· Responsible for the personnel management when deputising for the team manager
Management and Leadership
· There is a regular responsibility for ongoing training and teaching of apprentices and trainees in their core subjects. i.e. Mechanical/Electrical trade practices, And other trade practices, and other staff specialism’s, i. e Ventilation, L8, Pressure Systems etc.
· Coach and mentor for other junior staff, i.e. apprentices and maintenance assistants
Financial Responsibility
· Responsible for the installation, repair and maintenance of the building fabric, physical assets and machinery throughout the Trust
· Accountability for appropriate use and allocation of stock issued.
Information Management
· Make professional judgements involving a range of facts or situation, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
· Produces engineering plant reports using computer software, including the management and storage/retrieval of information and records
· Reviews all capital schemes with respect to compliance and maintainability.
· Communicates technical information with specialists and non-specialists.
· Communicates technical issues to non-clinical staff in emergency situations
· Communicates instructions, directs, mentors and guides junior staff to support their personal development
· Works from technical specifications and drawings associated with building services plant and equipment
· Interpret and works from instruction, drawings and specifications, drawings and specifications without supervision.
· Carry out complicated analysis of test results to ascertain is the equipment meets its operating parameters during plant annual validations.
· Ensure all policies complied with and knowledge translated to the staff and monitored effectively.
· Implement revised or newly introduced operational procedures for plant and equipment
Education and Professional Development
· Undertake training as and when required to obtain, maintain and develop skills and knowledge base.
· Be able to learn and adapt to new techniques, embrace multiskilled training and provide written and verbal instruction to staff and colleagues on all aspects or their work.
Note:
This job description is intended as an outline of the general areas of activity and will be amended in the light of the changing needs of the organisation. To be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder.
· Staff must be prepared to work reasonable additional hours and will be required to participate in an on-call rota which could necessitate them being asked to return to deal with emergency situations which could arise outside of normal working hours.
· This post will be community site wide and may involve working on the Trusts Acute hospitals.
· Post Holder requires a full manual clean UK driving license as you will have access to our company pool cars/vans
· Work independently when on-call throughout night and weekends. There is a requirement to act independently, deciding when to call independent contractors.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Mar 2025
Salary31,944.00 - 34,937.00 Annual