University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Craftsperson - Painter/Carpenter/Builder
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Role Overview
The Building Craftsperson will provide a comprehensive Healthcare maintenance service to all wards and departments within a multidisciplinary environment, ensuring compliance with Trust safety standards and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out planned and new works tasks to a high standard that is commensurate with the skills and experience for the role.
- Report to the Estates New Works Supervisor and Estates maintenance managers on a day-to-day basis.
- Carry out routine duties referring to SOP’s as and when required.
- Undertake unsupervised routine maintenance and minor repair works.
- Use all relevant tools and equipment.
- Understanding how to manipulate fine tools and equipment when repairing equipment, plant locks, and other complex tasks.
- Maintain the workshops, stores, switch-rooms, boilerhouse, and plant-rooms and the surrounding areas clean and tidy as directed by the New Works supervisor.
- Compliance with all statutory regulations including the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
- Ensure that all policies and procedures laid down by the Trust are strictly complied with.
- Assist higher skill grades on new work and repairs.
Training and Development
- Undertake training as necessary to ensure that the knowledge and skills base is maintained and developed to meet the requirements of current and future services and changes in legislation.
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Technical Skills
- Undertake all Joinery/Building and Painting works to all hospital property, internally and externally, to a high quality and acceptable craft standards and approved methods of working.
- Erect scaffolds, ladders, and working platforms and carry out work as required.
- Work from independent scaffolds and towers and similar access equipment.
- Work with all types of paint systems, internally and externally, including preservatives and protective coatings.
- Application of all types of wall coverings including wallpaper, vinyl, proprietary paint systems, and spray paint finishes/glaze.
- Perform a range of additional craftsperson duties such as glazing, plastering, filing, replacing of suspended ceilings, bricklaying, mortar repairs, minor roof repairs, guttering, shuttering of concrete, vinyl flooring repairs, and patching along with other building fabric repairs.
- Experience in key cutting and the repair of door locks.
- Ability to interpret technical detailed manuals, undertake fault diagnosis, and solving of maintenance problems.
- Communicate technical knowledge to others particularly in the safe use of fixed woodworking machinery and other portable power tools, cement mixers, and other maintenance equipment.
Operational Skills
- Use and operate the Estates CAFM computerized labor management system.
- Plan and prioritize own workload.
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Our Strategy and Values
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We Have Four Primary Goals:
- High-quality care for all,
- Being a great place to work,
- Partnerships for impact,
- Research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
- We are compassionate,
- We are proud,
- We are inclusive, and
- We are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About The University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Lee Hines
Job title: Senior Estates Manager
Email address: lee.hines@uhl-tr.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0116 2583562
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