Job summary
The Senior Tradesperson (Building Fabric) plays a key role in supporting the safe, efficient and compliant upkeep of the estate across a busy healthcare setting. The position delivers a wide range of building fabric activities, including maintenance, repairs, planned works, surveys and compliance checks, ensuring the estate remains functional, safe and aligned with statutory and Trust requirements. The role involves overseeing daily tasks, guiding maintenance assistants, apprentices and contractors, and coordinating activity to minimise disruption to clinical areas.
Working as a Competent Person under relevant standards, the postholder carries out inspections, evaluates risks, and ensures assets meet regulatory expectations. They use CAFM systems to organise and track work, respond to urgent issues, and support oncall duties to maintain service continuity. The role demands strong technical judgement, the ability to work independently, and the resilience to operate in physically demanding and sometimes hazardous environments.
The Senior Tradesperson contributes to audits, operational improvements and team development while upholding the Trust's values of kindness, connection and boldness within everyday practice
Main duties of the job
This role involves delivering a wide range of buildingfabric tasks, including inspecting structures, addressing defects, and completing refurbishment or minor construction activities. It requires examining fixtures, finishes and internal components to identify concerns, documenting findings, and highlighting issues that require escalation. The postholder applies technical judgement to resolve faults, selecting suitable methods and materials while maintaining safe working practices.
The position includes reviewing technical drawings and specifications, ensuring works meet required standards and regulatory expectations. Duties also include carrying out statutory checks such as firedoor inspections and contributing to wider compliance activities. Maintaining uptodate records, supporting updates to maintenance schedules and risk assessments, and ensuring asset data remains accurate form an important part of the role.
Daily responsibilities include prioritising tasks, responding to urgent issues, coordinating resources and updating digital systems to reflect progress. The postholder provides direction to assistants, apprentices and contractors, monitoring performance and maintaining safe conditions, particularly when working at height, in confined spaces or in other highrisk environments. Additional tasks include undertaking minor upgrade works, maintaining workshop standards, supporting audits and surveys, and contributing to improvements in operational delivery.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Basic education to GCSE/'O' Level in Maths
- and English or post-Secondary Education
- training in a relevant field
- * Level 3 City & Guilds of London Institute
- Certificate in:
- Course 6706 in Carpentry and Joinery
- or,
- Carpentry NVQ Level 3
Desirable
- IPAF Certified
- * PASMA Certified
- * Asbestos Awareness
- * CSCS Card
Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering multi skilled
- building fabric tasks in an operational
- environment
- * Experience in general maintenance or in a
- specific trade
Desirable
- Delivering multi skilled building
- fabric tasks in a healthcare
- environment
- * Operating mobile working
- platforms (powered access
- equipment)
- * Erecting and dismantling mobile
- scaffold towers
- * Identifying Asbestos and
- procedures
- * Making good fire
- compartmentation
- * Security, access control, keys and
- locks
- * Controlled drug storage units
- * Roofing
- * Underground drainage and highpressure jetting
- * Building structure and partition
- walling
- * Flooring and flooring finishes
- * Glazing
- * Fixtures, fittings and furniture
- * Scaffolding
- * Woodworking machinery
- * Construction site plant
- * Transport vehicles
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Available for undertaking overtime
- * Available for potential future shift working
- * Physically demanding role requiring manual
- handling of loads, extremes of temperature
- and the ability to work at heights or in
- confined spaces
- * Appreciation of their own limitations
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Basic education to GCSE/'O' Level in Maths
- and English or post-Secondary Education
- training in a relevant field
- * Level 3 City & Guilds of London Institute
- Certificate in:
- Course 6706 in Carpentry and Joinery
- or,
- Carpentry NVQ Level 3
Desirable
- IPAF Certified
- * PASMA Certified
- * Asbestos Awareness
- * CSCS Card
Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering multi skilled
- building fabric tasks in an operational
- environment
- * Experience in general maintenance or in a
- specific trade
Desirable
- Delivering multi skilled building
- fabric tasks in a healthcare
- environment
- * Operating mobile working
- platforms (powered access
- equipment)
- * Erecting and dismantling mobile
- scaffold towers
- * Identifying Asbestos and
- procedures
- * Making good fire
- compartmentation
- * Security, access control, keys and
- locks
- * Controlled drug storage units
- * Roofing
- * Underground drainage and highpressure jetting
- * Building structure and partition
- walling
- * Flooring and flooring finishes
- * Glazing
- * Fixtures, fittings and furniture
- * Scaffolding
- * Woodworking machinery
- * Construction site plant
- * Transport vehicles
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Available for undertaking overtime
- * Available for potential future shift working
- * Physically demanding role requiring manual
- handling of loads, extremes of temperature
- and the ability to work at heights or in
- confined spaces
- * Appreciation of their own limitations
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
