Estates Mechanical Technician - Bank

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

ESTH Trust are looking for Band 5 Estates Mechanical Technicians to work in Property services at a Band 5 - 37.5 hours a week on a BANK basis.

This role will be required to work trust-wide across Epsom, ST Helier Hospitals, Sutton Healthcare and Surrey Downs.

• The duties include 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 must participate in the out of hours call system
• 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.

If you are interested and available please apply today.

• 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

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.

Technical

• 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, disinfections and temperature setting.
• Install of plumbing goods, toilets, sinks, macerators, point of use water heaters.

Leadership or managerial

• To mentor junior members and apprentices
• To host contractors, internal and external stakeholders

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 take part on the estates callout roster
• 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

This role will be required to work trust-wide across Epsom, ST Helier Hospitals, Sutton Healthcare and Surrey Downs.

• The duties include 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 must participate in the out of hours call system
• 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

General responsibilities

• To take part on the estates callout roster
• 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 issue