Mobile Mechanical Technician
Slough, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 week ago
Job Overview
This is an excellent opportunity to use your engineering/building services experience in helping to provide an improved environment for the delivery of clinical care. This post will suit someone with a mechanical background.
Our focus on improving the Trust facilities and environment has created an opportunity for an individual to join a team of skilled trades people. You will provide an effective and efficient maintenance service to the engineering and mechanical services plant, equipment and the buildings of the trust.
Please note that this role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the full duration of the post.
Main duties of the job
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience of working in an engineering/building maintenance environment.
You will be working within a diverse and highly skilled team, helping to maintain and improve the critical infrastructure that supports frontline healthcare services.
You will play a vital role in ensuring our engineering systems, plant and equipment remain safe, reliable and compliant, enabling the delivery of exceptional patient care across the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The successful candidate will have knowledge and experience relating to healthcare engineering standards, including:
In Return, We Offer
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information.
We reserve the right to close the advert early if sufficient applications have been received.
Person specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
Apply online now
This is an excellent opportunity to use your engineering/building services experience in helping to provide an improved environment for the delivery of clinical care. This post will suit someone with a mechanical background.
Our focus on improving the Trust facilities and environment has created an opportunity for an individual to join a team of skilled trades people. You will provide an effective and efficient maintenance service to the engineering and mechanical services plant, equipment and the buildings of the trust.
Please note that this role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the full duration of the post.
Main duties of the job
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience of working in an engineering/building maintenance environment.
You will be working within a diverse and highly skilled team, helping to maintain and improve the critical infrastructure that supports frontline healthcare services.
You will play a vital role in ensuring our engineering systems, plant and equipment remain safe, reliable and compliant, enabling the delivery of exceptional patient care across the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- Carrying out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and statutory planned maintenance (SPM) activities on engineering plant, equipment and services.
- Diagnosing faults, undertaking repairs and arranging the procurement of replacement parts where required.
- Supporting the safe and efficient operation of critical hospital infrastructure, including steam systems, water treatment systems and electrical services.
- Acting as a lead specialist for mechanical services and providing technical guidance to colleagues within the Estates team.
- Understanding, interrogating and rectifying faults on the Building Management System (BMS).
- Calibrating and maintaining complex mechanical and electrical installations.
- Liaising with clinical and non-clinical departments regarding service interruptions, shutdowns and maintenance activities.
- Producing condition reports and technical assessments to support lifecycle planning and future investment decisions.
- Advising managers on minor engineering improvement works and assisting with project costing and planning.
- Maintaining accurate maintenance records and performance data.
- Participating in the department's on-call rota and providing out-of-hours support when required.
- Supporting the training, development and supervision of apprentices and other staff members.
- Contributing to the Trust appraisal and professional development processes.
- Working across Frimley Health sites as required
The successful candidate will have knowledge and experience relating to healthcare engineering standards, including:
- HTM 01 – Decontamination
- HTM 03 – Heating and Ventilation
- HTM 04 – Water Systems
- Building Management Systems (BMS)
- Mechanical plant and building services maintenance
- Safe systems of work and statutory compliance requirements
In Return, We Offer
- A supportive and inclusive working environment
- Opportunities for professional development and training
- Access to NHS pension and employee benefits
- Career progression within a large and respected NHS organisation
- The opportunity to make a real difference to patient care every day
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information.
We reserve the right to close the advert early if sufficient applications have been received.
Person specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Logical and organised
- IT Literate
- Evidence of good written and communication skills for effective working relationships throughout the organisation.
- Ability to cope with demanding scenarios.
- Good organisational and communication skills and ability to address and develop solutions to problems.
- Ability and willingness to undertake emergency-situation repairs.
- NHS experience
- Knowledge of HTMs
Essential criteria
- Level 3 City & Guilds Craft or NVQ equivalents in electrical installation/maintenance or equivalent experience
- IEE 18th Edition
- Gas Safe registered/ trained
- ONC
- Water bylaws
- Lift Trained
- Nurse call systems trained
- BMS Understanding/ qualification
- Hydro pool trained
- Decontamination control, trained (autoclaves)
- Medical gas trained
Essential criteria
- Be available for out of hours/on-call duties
- Be able to travel between Trust sites when required
- Be able to work overtime at short notice.
Essential criteria
- Prior experience in an engineering service
- Experience in training colleagues in an Estates department
- Experience working in the building trades
- Experience working in large industrial/commercial environments
- Service within the field of maintenance, focus on service supply, problem solving keeping the client informed.
- Problem solving BMS systems
- Experience working in an Acute Hospital Environment
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
Apply online now
