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Job summary

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Estates
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
408-25-379
Employer
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Arrowe Park Hospital
Town
Wirral
Salary
£19,897.50 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/05/2025 23:59

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Apprentice Multi-Trade Craftsman

Band 4

 

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Job overview

A vacancy has arisen for an apprentice Electrician at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Working for the Operations and Maintenance Division, as part of a multi discipline team providing reactive and planned preventative maintenance to Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge Hospitals.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Multi-Trade Craftsman (Electrician) position available at WUTH.

Working for our organisation

All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.

We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.

We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.

The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Multi-Trade Craftsman (Electrician) position available at WUTH.

This vacancy is being advertised as an apprenticeship and as such the salary for the role if reflective of this. Those who currently hold and can evidence the essential qualifications need not apply. Your application will not be shortlisted if you hold the essential qualification(s).

Although English and Maths at level 2 is not required for the role, it is a requirement to complete the apprenticeship and need to be in place by the end of the apprenticeship. If you do not hold or cannot evidence English and Maths at level 2 then support will be provided for the successful applicant(s) as part of the Trust’s apprenticeship offer. 

Staff entering employment with the Trust via an apprenticeship pathway will be paid on the Trust’s local apprenticeship pay scale for the duration of their training programme. For the first 12 months of employment the staff member will be paid 75% of the payband minimum. From the start of month 13 until the end of their apprenticeship programme, the staff member will be paid 95% of the payband minimum or the national living wage (whichever amount is the higher amount).

Existing staff moving into an equal or higher banded apprenticeship role cannot be financially disadvantaged in doing so they will remain on their current pay scale or move onto the apprenticeship pay scale (whichever is the higher amount). 

Existing staff moving into a lower banded apprenticeship role will move onto apprenticeship pay scale until the completion of the programme.

Whilst this role is being advertised as a permanent position, there is an expectation that the successful applicant must complete all elements of the apprenticeship. Initially, the successful applicant will be placed on a fixed term apprenticeship contract for the duration of the programme. Upon completion of the apprenticeship and providing all additional milestones are met, the successful applicant will be issued a permanent contract.

Person specification

Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training

Essential criteria
  • City and Guilds NVQ Level 3 Electrical Maintenance / Installation or equivalent
  • 17th/18th Edition IEE wiring Regulations
Desirable criteria
  • City and Guilds 2391 Testing and Inspection
  • HV Qualification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of single and three phase Electrical systems
  • LV Electrical distribution systems
  • Reading and interpreting technical drawings, manufacturers literature and specifications
Desirable criteria
  • Experience working in healthcare setting background
  • Emergency generators, UPS, and Fire Alarm systems
  • HV Electrical Distribution systems
  • Mechanical experience knowledge

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Ability to communicate effectively to colleagues, stakeholders
  • Work as part of a team and on their own
  • Flexible approach to working
  • Manage and work to PPM deadlines
  • Self-Motivated, honest, and reliable
  • Physically fit with ability to work in confined space and at height

Other Requirements

Essential criteria
  • The post holder will be required to be able to work with an appropriate degree of sensitivity and compassion when asked to work near patients / public in various settings with various levels of acuity
  • The post holder will be required (when necessary) to work in hot, noisy or dirty and potentially hazardous areas which may, at times, require permits to work, Examples include confined spaces, boiler rooms, calorifier rooms with live steam, height work on ladders/scaffolds and outdoors during inclement weather, in accordance with responsibility for health & safety (as above)
Desirable criteria
  • To be prepared to act as HV Authorised person as defined HTM - 06

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Steve Keogh
Job title
Maintenance Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 678 5111
Additional information

Extension  3372

For further information on the apprenticeship programme please speak to a member of the Vocational Development Team on 0151 482 7981

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