Estates Maintenance Worker - Carpentry

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Estates Maintenance Worker who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The post holder will be a carpenter with a building background and will carry out, with minimum supervision, building maintenance and installation work on all buildings within East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust estate.

They will also provide technical building/carpentry advice and support for the maintenance of all relevant buildings within the trust.

The post holder will need to be able to travel easily between sites.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The Estates Maintenance Worker will maintain/repair and install door furniture, fixtures and fittings.

Be able to erect studwork partitioning walls, plaster boarding, hang doors, bath panels and boxing in other fittings when required.

Understand, maintain, install and repair simple & complex locks and locking systems, coded door locks and drug cupboard locks.

Manufacture parts and assemblies using lathes and machine tool and be able to undertake minor decoration work.

Understand all relevant statutory building requirements.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Steveange

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Steveange

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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