Job summary
- Main area
- Carpentry
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 153-CO03133-G
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Bournemouth Hospital
- Town
- Bournemouth
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Building Maintenance Worker/Carpenter (Multi-Skilled)
Band 4
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
The Royal Bournemouth Hospital Estates Department provides a comprehensive maintenance, repair and installation service of the buildings, grounds, engineering services and associated equipment throughout the Trust.
We are looking for a building maintenance carpenter to join our building team with general carpentry experience including the maintenance of fire doors. You should have served a recognised carpentry apprenticeship and gained a wide experience in general buildings or NHS properties with a BTEC HNC level or City and Guilds plus relevant post apprenticeship training or equivalent experience.
You must hold a current UK (manual) driving licence.
The role is Monday – Friday with opportunities for overtime and weekend working.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person specification
Other
Essential criteria
- Full car driving licence
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Apprenticeship in relevant core trade with a Minimum of a City and Guilds with advanced craft certificate or BTEC, ONC in relevant building Maintenance Trade.
Desirable criteria
- Certificate in Wood Working Machinery.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 3 years experience in General building maintenance, outside core trade of Painting/Decorating, carpentry, Joinery.
- Have good understanding of the relationship of other craftsmen’s work to there own
- Experience of maintenance carpentry and building in a range of settings.
Desirable criteria
- Minimum 5 years experience working in a complex Building Maintenance environment.
- Basic electrical safety training to be able to fulfill duties without support of other trades.
- Understand the working of the mechanical and/or electrical and/or plumbing and/or gas systems in NHS buildings.
- Experience Working in Healthcare Environment.
- Joinery ability
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to fulfil a requirement to interpret and work from all instructions, drawings and specifications appropriate to original trade, without supervision.
- Ability to fulfil a requirement to set out new work or set up new production appropriate to original trade using relevant instruments and machinery, without supervision.
- Familiar with hand and power tools
Desirable criteria
- Ability to diagnose and repair faults in basic electrical systems i.e. fire doors, lighting circuits, power circuits. Electrical and Mechanical knowledge in relation to plant for shutting down to clean and maintai
- Ability to support and assist with Engineering emergencies using own initiative.
- Ability to glaze windows, fit and maintain locks.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Health & Safety training
- Good knowledge of carpentry and joinery techniques.
Desirable criteria
- Electrical training
- Water supply training
- Environment health & Safety training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrew Martin
- Job title
- Building Supervisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 4291
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