Job summary
Employer heading
Building Craftsperson
NHS AfC: Band 3
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
To maintain properly and effectively, all building structures fabric and finishes within the Community sites and associated buildings, related to the job title.
All staff within Essentia including Building Maintenance, Engineering, Housekeeping and security, other Trust staff, directors, senior managers, external consultants, contractors, suppliers, agency staff and various third party organisations as required by the Directorate to ensure effective and efficient delivery of services. Also within the clinical divisions; Matron’s, Service General Manager, Service Delivery Manager, Consultants and Junior Medical Staff, Nursing Staff, Allied Health Professionals, Administrative and Clerical Support Staff.
Efficiently diagnose and repair faults in building structure, fabric and finishes and deal with new situations as they arise and to pass on knowledge to others.
Set out new work or set up new production appropriate to his/her trade using relevant instruments without supervision.
Learn new techniques, with training as necessary, and attend training courses as required.
Main duties of the job
- Must be able to work as part of a team and to work independently, without supervision.
- Must have a commitment to providing the highest quality of service.
- Ability to work well under pressure and still apply attention to detail.
- Ability to work on own initiative and demonstrate effective personal time management.
- Effective communication with the team managers and team members.
- This role requires the Shift Multi Skilled Craftsperson to be on site from 7:00 hours to 19:00 hours working on the shift rota.
- This role requires the Shift Multi Skilled Craftsperson to be flexible as working beyond the rostered days on may be required.
- Carry out all aspects of the building and carpentry trade.
- Carry out all types joinery work such as the installation of benching and shelving.
- Furniture assembly.
- Installation of all types of door locks and security mechanisms.
- Key cutting.
Working for our organisation
Essentia provides effective management and coordination of all non-clinical support services at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and is vital to the Trust functioning effectively, efficiently, and economically to safely meet its overall objectives. The Building Maintenance and Improvement Department, which covers all traditional 'Estates functions' is primarily responsible for providing professional, effective, and efficient customer focused reactive and and planned maintenance services to the Trust's buildings. The department is also responsible for minor improvements, refurbishment works, and also replacement programmes, delegated capital projects, and provides similar services to other third party organisations through Service Level Agreements. The department works very closely with the Capital Projects, Engineering, and Operations Teams together with the end-user for successful delivery of all of these services.
What We Offer
We offer a dynamic challenging job in an exciting, fast moving, and flexible working environment. We have a strong commitment to your personal and professional development.
In addition, we offer excellent benefit, most notably including the NHS Pension Scheme -- one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK. When you start working for the NHS you automatically become a member and you will get an excellent package of pension benefits.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Education
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience in a similar industry. Commitment to learn new working methods.
Desirable criteria
- Recognised NVQ in building related craft subjects or equivalent.
- CSCS or CITB skills card holder.
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in Building trades for maintenance activities.
- Experience of working within a broad range of occupational guidelines
Desirable criteria
- Use of PDA device for implementing work tasks.
Skills/Knowledge/ Ability
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to undertake unsupervised specialist building maintenance tasks
- Undertake small repairs to roofs, floors and external paving
- Driving License for a manual vehicle
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
- Steve King
- Job title
- Maintenance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07887564970
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