Painter and Decorator inWakefield inWakefield PUBLISHED 23 OCT 2024

37.5 Hours Per Week

This painting role is based at Fieldhead hospital in Wakefield but covers other health centres in the Wakefield area that sits under the trust footprint.

The role is maintaining the decoration of all service areas covering all aspects of painting and decorating internally and externally on the buildings.

The work is varied and changes on a day to day basis in line with service need requirements and prioritisation of works.

Estates trust vehicles are utilised for traveling around the footprint of the trust and the successful candidates skillset may at times need to be used on the Barnsley properties which includes Kendray hospital and Doncaster property such as Cheswold Park Hospital.

This is an exciting role for the right candidate that likes a challenge in a very demanding environment.

Reactive works are the main duties of this post but our estates painting lead does run and manage full painting programmes for all areas across the trust foot print.

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To carry out routine painting maintenance of Trust propertiesCarry out internal and external decoration of ward areas, departments and common areas.

Be able to be fully conversant with various types of application e.g

Oil based paint

Acrylic paint

Spraying technique

Wall papering finishes.

Wall washing of clinical and non clinical areas as required.

Any other duties generally regarded as being concomitant with painting and decorating.

The postholder will be expected to increase his/her knowledge with in-house/external courses to carry out basic duties of other trades i.e

Light cleaning, lamp replacement with relevant training

Removing/replacing notice boards, signs, shelves etc.

Basic plastering repairs etc.

The postholder will manage his/her own workload and liaise with departmental managers for access to ward and patient areas.

To ensure paint stock levels are maintained and order stock and parts as required.

To ensure the quality of work is of a high standard at all times.

Required to carry out work in accordance with working at heights and permit to work system on various functions in various conditions i.e. confined spaces, boiler houses, plant rooms, stair wells etc.

To work from ladders, to erect scaffold (once trained) and safe use of the safety harness system.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

About us

The main area of this post is to ensure the fabric of all properties within SWYPT and any other organisations as directed, both internally and externally are kept to a high standard. The postholder will be expected to undertake training to increase flexibility across other trades.

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

For further job information, please see job description attached.