The role promises a rewarding and diverse work environment, offering opportunities for career progression and personal development within the NHS. The trust emphasises a healthy work-life balance, flexible working arrangements, and a supportive workplace culture, which are all aimed at improving both employee well-being and the overall quality of patient care. Benefits include generous annual leave, a comprehensive pension scheme, and staff discounts.
The Estates department at the Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby has an exciting opportunity for an individual to join the onsite maintenance team.
The Estates team is a support service vital to the smooth running of the hospital. The team works behind the scenes to keep the hospital operational. The working environment is very diverse, and the equipment is highly specialised and unique to healthcare. Working in an acute hospital setting is a rewarding career as no two days are alike knowing that you have contributed to maintaining a positive patient environment.
An Estates Maintenance Support Worker position plays a key role within the Estates Engineering Maintenance Services. The post supports the wider maintenance team in the delivery of maintenance programmes that will contribute to a safe, cost effective, efficient and compliant hospital site.
The post holder will undertake works relating to the maintenance and repairs of Trust properties, equipment, grounds & gardens ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, health technical memorandum's, trust policies and procedures to ensure a clean, safe and functional environment for patients, public and staff to support the delivery of patient care. The post also holds a significant patient, staff and visitor safety function during the winter months, providing on call support overnight and at weekends for de-icing and snow clearing. The role offers support and/or assistance to skilled maintenance craft persons in plant rooms maintaining specialised equipment that serves Operating Theatres, Wards and Departments.
The NHS has definitive career progression pathways and training opportunities, with career advancement. There are various ways to continuously develop you and your career along with a great work life balance, teamwork and working to support your local hospital. In addition to this you will receive a generous annual leave entitlement, access to an excellent pension scheme, staff benefits including staff discount and lottery schemes.
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As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
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