Mobile Mechanical Craftsperson

Job Overview

This is an excellent opportunity to use your engineering/water service experience in helping to maintain the patient environment.

Our focus on improving the Trust facilities and environment has created an opportunity for a Mechanical Craftsman. You will undertake water sampling from scheduled areas around the Trust and day-to-day planned and reactive maintenance.

Main duties of the job

You will be based at Wexham Park but may on occasion be required to work at our sister sites at Frimley and Ascot with the Trust supplying transportation to be used for the delivery of samples and when working at the other hospitals

You will have good customer care skills, and be able to work on your own initiative.

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

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

• should have or working towards a minimum level 3 technical qualification.
• Experiance of planned maintenance systems
  
  

Desirable criteria

• ONC / HNC
• Water related qualification
• Mechanical apprenticeship
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of water systems
• Good at fault finding
• Good Communication skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Health & Safety qualification
• A knowledge of Hospital Water Systems
• Working knowledge of L8, HTM04, and HSG274
• Experience of chemical dosing units
• Understanding of Healthcare environment
  
  

communication and IT skills

Essential criteria

• Must be able to use a computer and mobile device.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experiance of BMS systems
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

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.

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