Shift Engineer: Sponsorship Available

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Job Summary

* PLEASE NOTE THAT IN ADDITION TO THE ADVERTISED SALARY, THERE WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL AMOUNT APPLIED OF £3277.00 PER YEAR RECRUIT & RETENTION PAYMENT**

The Estates Office within the Division of Infrastructure are looking to recruit an Shift Engineer.

Working within a busy Estates function, based predominately at the Dewsbury and District Hospital site, you will join an already established successful team.

To provide a comprehensive multi-trade maintenance service to all Healthcare Properties, Services, Plant, and Non-Medical Equipment.

The key role of the Shift Team will be to respond to all emergency situations and serious incidents that occur within a designated time frame and to provide an effective communication link to Estates Department and other relevant on-call managers to ensure appropriate responses to these events are provided in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. Out of hours, the Shift Engineer will be the first contact for the Trust staff in relation to emergencies or advice. They will assess the situation and act appropriately.

This is a permanent position, working 37.5 hours per week, there will be various shift patterns to include the following hours;

22.00pm – 08.00am

14.00pm – 22.00pm

08.00am – 16.00pm

This will include some weekends and bank holiday working.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be part of a team of five Shift Engineers under the direction of the Estates Management Team for providing a comprehensive 24 hours, 7-day maintenance cover to all retained Trust buildings and any other SLAs, including All SWYMHT Buildings on retained sites for out of normal hours emergencies.

The Shift Engineer will undertake all work in compliance with relevant regulatory and advisory frameworks, Trust policies and the Estates Departments ISO9002 Quality Manual.

Assist in the formulation of Trust Policies in relation to out of hours working.

To undertake the role of HTM Competent Person and/or Authorised Person role in designated areas.

About us

We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks – who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.

Person Specification

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Ability to develop and build an effective team
  • Self motivator
  • Drive and persistence
  • Ability to work under pressure

Other

Essential

  • Satisfy occupational health screening
  • Access to a vehicle with the ability to drive

Knowledge and Awareness

Essential

  • Knowledge of technical developments in Estates maintenance

Qualifications

Essential

  • HNC or ONC or demonstrable equivalent knowledge in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering discipline.
  • Recognised apprenticeship

Desirable

  • Specialist training for ACOP/Competent Persons in relevant subjects

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Planning skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Must be capable of working safely and at speed in emergency situations
  • Computer literacy
  • To be able to work out of normal hours including weekends on their own initiative

Desirable

  • Team building
  • Team leader

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in complex Engineering Services with a demonstrable track record of success.
  • Demonstrable experience in responding to and dealing with emergency repairs and incidents.

Desirable

  • Experience of working within the NHS as part of a shift team member.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 31 October 2024

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.