Carpenter, Trades ​/ Skilled Labor

Are you an experienced and skilled Carpenter looking to develop your career within a large, supportive, and forward-thinking NHS Estates team? We are looking for a proactive and motivated individual to join our Estates & Facilities Department as a Band 4 Carpenter
, helping us maintain safe, functional, and high-quality environments across our Health Board.

As a Carpenter, you will carry out a wide range of carpentry and building fabric maintenance tasks--both planned and reactive--across Aneurin Bevan University Health Board sites. Your work will include:

• Installation, repair and maintenance of building fabric and structural components
• Fire door inspections, repairs and compartmentation checks
• Ironmongery repairs, lock maintenance and key cutting
• Operation of woodworking machinery and various specialist equipment
• Supporting other trades and contributing to minor improvement works
• Using digital systems such as PDAs, tablets and maintenance management software
• Ensuring full compliance with Health Board policies, safety standards and Building Regulations

This is a hands-on role requiring technical skill, problem-solving and the ability to work independently across a variety of environments, including confined spaces, heights, and hot/cold areas.

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

• City and Guilds Craft Certificate
• Apprenticeship or other recognised and approved training
• City and Guilds Advanced Craft
• FIRAS certificate

• Installation and maintenance of fire doors
• Knowledge of working within a range of carpentry related services e.g. joinery, glazing, roofing, practical maintenance installation and fault finding
• Experience of maintenance carpentry
• Experience of working in a similar environment

• Must have good craft skill
• Can work with minimum supervision
• Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh

• Satisfactory Standard DBS clearance

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.

£27,898 to £30,615 a yearper annum/pro rata