Job overview

 To provide a specialist service to the organisation with respect to healthcare systems and undertake maintenance and project management in this field as appropriate. To ensure compliance with HTM 04 – The Control of Legionella, Hygiene, “Safe” Hot Water, Cold Water and Drinking Water Systems and other relevant legislation, codes of practice and technical guidance and provide training and competency assessments as required.

The post holder will be employed to work appropriate to their core specialist skills. They will also be progressively  trained to acquire elements of other specialist skills with the intention of reaching levels of multi-disciplinary flexibility and competence to enable them to achieve and apply their ability where required.

Main duties of the job

Carry out the full range of maintenance duties specific to their core trade as required, including non-routine, planned, corrective and breakdown maintenance tasks, this includes work on, or around, bedhead services and building fabric in wards and departments which will involve incidental patient contact.

Responsible for developing task lists – including carrying out regular audits - to ensure compliance with HTM 04, HSE ACOP L8 and other statutory requirements. Must be capable of reading, analysing, interpreting, comparing and understanding complex information such as: laboratory results, detailed design engineering drawings, and operation and maintenance manuals in order to develop Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedules.

To be actively involved in the Trustwide Water Services Group and be responsible for ensuring that it is understood and implemented. To be responsible for reviewing and updating departmental Safe Working procedures relating to their specialist service area in conjunction with the Service Manager and taking into account DoH guidance and Estates and Facilities Alerts.

Working for our organisation

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust strongly encourages new starters to have the Covid-19 vaccine. However, it is not a mandatory requirement to work for us.

HUTH has two main sites: Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital with an annual budget of approximately £800 million. The Trust employs around 11,000 staff and serves an extended population of 1.25 million, delivering a number of outpatient services from locations across the area.

The Trust’s secondary care service portfolio is comprehensive, covering the major medical and surgical specialties, routine and specialist diagnostic services and other clinical support services. These services are provided primarily to a catchment population of approximately 600,000 in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire area.

HUTH provides specialist and tertiary services to a population of 1.25 million extending from Scarborough in North Yorkshire to Grimsby and Scunthorpe in North East and North Lincolnshire respectively.