Electrical Multi-Skilled Technician

Job summary

We are searching for you.... do you have experience of carrying out the repair/maintenance/installation of complex plant and equipment and would like to gain further knowledge in a mental health setting? Advancing your skills are important and we will take the time to understand your career history and motivations for a new role and help with your career progression where possible.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to work for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust working as a skilled Electrician in the Estates team, covering various sites across Hampshire. We are looking for someone that can be flexible and proactive, have good communication skills and an understanding of health and safety requirements. You will help to create the safe environment that will enable us to give our service users and staff the quality, care and support they deserve.

Main duties of the job

Key activities/responsibilities will be to carry out and/or oversee the repair/maintenance/installation of complex plant and equipment.

This will involve a multi-skilled approach as well as the full range of duties associated with the post holder's primary trade as an Electrician.

This will include planned preventative maintenance, and reactive repair works across varying systems, acting as an Authorised Person (AP) in LV Electrical to include the issuing of permits to work, carrying out electrical shutdowns in a compliant and recorded manner to assist with Maintenance works or larger Capital Project works.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• An electrical background with an NVQ or City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma or equivalent qualification in an appropriate electrically biased engineering discipline
• Able to fault-find diagnose and rectify electrical faults.
• Knowledge of planned maintenance systems.
• Knowledge of Health & Safety.
• Time served apprenticeship or equivalent.
• Driving License.

Experience

Essential

• ExperienceGood communication skills.
• Continuous ongoing assessment and on-the-job training to maintain competence with updating electrical regulations.
• A flexible approach, reliable nature and a conscientious attitude to work
• Demonstrate the ability to understand and follow detailed technical instructions.
• Organization of own workload.

Desirable

• Demonstrate a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Development into supporting the on call trade staff requirements, including some evening/weekend work