Engineering Maintenance Assistant; Decontamination

Are you practical, motivated, and keen to develop your skills in a busy healthcare engineering environment?

We are seeking a dedicatedEngineering Maintenance Assistant to join our Estates & Facilities team and play a vital role in maintaining safe, efficient hospital environments for patients, staff, and visitors.

As an Engineering Maintenance Assistant, you will support the maintenance and estates team in the operation, repair and upkeep of NHS buildings, facilities and equipment. You will work across a large and varied healthcare estate, carrying out both supervised and unsupervised maintenance tasks while developing your knowledge and technical skills.

Your duties will include:

• Assisting skilled tradespeople and carrying out routine and non-routine maintenance.
• Responding to breakdowns and performing basic fault-finding on engineering plant and systems.
• Using a range of communication and technical tools, including pagers, technical drawings, test equipment, and building management systems.
• Ensuring safe working practices, including adherence to COSHH, method statements, and risk assessments.
• Performing portable appliance testing after suitable training.
• Maintaining accurate work records and reporting issues promptly.
• Supporting colleagues, new starters and, when required, contractors.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post;
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

• NVQ Level 3 or relevant recognised demonstrable competency at this level
• Trained in Health & Safety Awareness
• First Aid
• Will be expected to undertake relevant training to facilitate the safe and effective delivery of maintenance tasks.
• Personal Safety
• Confined Spaces

• Experience of general building services
• Appropriate work experience within the field of building services engineering
• Experience in a maintenance role, preferably in a healthcare setting.
• Experience of undertaking PPM checks and following up on actions

• Customer care awareness
• Able to contribute in a team environment.
• Ability to undertake other duties within areas of competence - check against core competencies in PADR.
• Physically fit and able to carry out manual tasks
• Good communication and teamwork skills.
• Welsh Speaker (Level
  1) or willingness to work towards

• Self-motivated
• Flexible approach to work
• There may be a need to cover shifts at short notice or to cover periods of sickness and annual leave.
• Ability to travel within a geographical area to meet the requirements of the post
• Awareness of NHS policies and procedures

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.