The Essentia Engineering Team is seeking an individual with experience in engineering and building services management and knowledge of current Electrical / BMS legislation.

The post holder will provide a BMS electrical service to the Engineering Department and other directorates within the Trust. You will demonstrate total commitment, versatility, and flexibility whilst undertaking all tasks and delegated work, as instructed by the Engineering Team.

You should the ability to organise and prioritise your own workload, where required, and work unsupervised and independently. The post holder will be held to account for effective performance and will need to manage and balance competing priorities.

We are committed to continuing professional development and will ensure you receive the right training to develop you in your role. There are a range of other training courses and programmes available too.

Post holders will have relevant qualifications and experience in electrical trades.

Main duties of the job

• Carries out the responsibilities of an authorised person for:
  • High Voltage Electricity
  • Low Voltage Electricity
• When working on call have delegated responsibility for all Trust engineering assets.
• Works with complex workings of all mechanical/electrical building services plant and equipment located in NHS buildings.
• Responsible for calibrating and maintaining highly specialist equipment associated with standby emergency generators and large industrial boiler plant, programmable logic controllers and other computerised building control systems.
• Install, service, test, diagnose and repair mechanical/electrical plant and equipment.
• Implements interruptions of engineering services in close liaison with both engineering and clinical managers

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.

Person Specification

education

Essential

• Recognised full apprenticeship in relevant trade / NVQ level 3 / BTEC national certificate or equivalent training.
• Substantial experience working within this trade.
• 18th edition.

Desirable

• Cross over training to another connected trade.
• Authorised person (AP) in their current trade or associated trade.

Experience

Essential

• Working on BMS systems.
• Experience of working on a broad range of plant / motors /general power and industrial lighting. HV / LV.
• Able to work unsupervised and take the lead within their own discipline on break downs and service shut downs.

Desirable

• Has good experience in health and safety and the ability to lead on this.
• Has experience of working in environments such as confined spaces / at height / extreme temperature.

Skills

Essential

• Excellent oral and communication skills.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to respond to multiple priorities.
• Proactive, versatile and problem solving.

Desirable

• Experience with Microsoft Word / excel and Power point.
• Ability to evaluate the needs of others under their control and other colleagues.

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Thomas' Hospital

Westminster Bridge Road

London

SE1 7EH

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