Plumber

Plumber

Bethlem Royal Hospital - BR3 3BX

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

37.5 hours per week - Monday - Friday 8.00 - 16.30

£20.00 per hour

Are you an experienced site plumber that can assist your local NHS Services in delivering essential estates maintenance to their complex of Trust buildings and Hard FM installations?

If so the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust wants to hear from you!

Overview

SLAM is currently looking for an experienced Plumbers/Fitters to join their busy team at Bethlem Hospital. As a Fitter Plumber, you'll need a solid understanding of estates plumbing systems, such as heating systems, boilers, and related components. Your responsibilities will include performing legionella checks, servicing thermostatic mixing valves, inspecting calorifiers and monitoring temperatures in accordance with the Approved Code of Practice (L8 & HTM).

You'll work both independently and collaboratively within a team. The right applicants will be people who are enthusiastic, physically fit, and have knowledge of controls for fault finding. There are four main hospital sites, including community premises. Applicants should be able to organize their work, manage parts and materials efficiently, and carry out tasks safely and neatly.

Key responsibilities include:

· Undertake compliance monitoring, planned preventative maintenance or emergency work as required by the Trust.

· Understand the workings of engineering services and systems in NHS/Trust premises. Ensuring that they are compliant, maintained to a high standard and that all plant and equipment are utilised in a safe and efficient manner.

· Provide a maintenance service to all Trust buildings, off site properties and be able to work unsupervised. Have a flexible approach to the work and be able to work beyond the normal hours of duty if required and to carry out other tasks from other disciplines should circumstances so dictate.

· Ensure work undertaken is completed in a timely manner and that appropriate records are updated through the requisite system.

· This role will include driving between trust properties in a safe and timely manner adhering to trust policies.

You'll have the following skills/experience:

· NVQ 3 Mechanical Engineer or plumbing City and Guilds plus relevant post apprenticeship training or equivalent experience, will consider Level 2 if experience is suitable.

· knowledge of domestic and commercial heating, boilers and associated components.

· Knowledge of compliance demands in healthcare.

· Essential Competent in the installation of copper, plastic and iron pipework.

· Knowledge of all associated trades.

· Full Driving licence

About the Trust:

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of services to approximately two million people locally. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient, and community services. We provide inpatient care for over 5,000 people each year and we treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, and Croydon.

As well as serving the communities of south London, we provide more than 50 specialist services for children and adults across the UK and beyond.

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

· Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week.

· Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime.

· Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts .

· Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your "My Bank" shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone .

· Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements .

· Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more .

· Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us.

· Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours.

Who are NHS Professionals?

NHS Professionals (NHSP), owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), works in partnership with hospital trusts to provide a bank of highly skilled temporary workers who want to work flexibly within the NHS. Working through the NHSP bank means Trusts do not have to rely on expensive agencies. Right now, we have over 126,000 members registered on our bank from various roles, grades, and specialities, saving the NHS over £70 million each year. This money is then reinvested back into the NHS. Register today for various flexible working options and long-term placement opportunities.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Disclaimer

Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.