Maintenance Supervisor

**Holmes Chapel Health Centre**
**Job Description - Maintenance Supervisor**

**JOB TITLE: Maintenance Supervisor**

**REPORTS TO: Practice Business Manager**

**HOURS: As per contract**

**Job summary**:
Working under the direct supervision of the Practice Business Manager, and strictly in accordance with specific practice guidelines and protocols.

**Job Specifications**:

- Reporting any known defects to appliances, damaged furniture / equipment and any other potential hazards to the Operations Manager, who will advise accordingly.
- Assisting in the general repair and maintenance of the Practice both externally and internally to promote effective operation and service.
- Supervising the maintenance of the Practice’s grounds to an acceptable standard in order to promote a pleasant and safe environment for Staff and Patients.
- Carrying out decoration as and when required in order to maintain the standard of the Practice.
- Testing the fire alarm system, and log results, weekly. Checking call points, fire exits, door-retaining devices and fire emergency lights, as specified in Practice procedures.
- Ensuring all ventilation units and lights are kept clean. Replace any defective light bulbs / diffusers.
- Responsibility for the general oversight of the heating, lighting and use of water at the Practice.
- Maintaining a “Maintenance Book” in which defects are recorded by Staff Members.
- Use this book to affect repairs / replacements.
- Assisting / supervising with deliveries to the Practice. Monitoring delivered goods closely. Cultivating grassed areas, flower beds, hedges, shrubs, and borders
- Carrying out landscaping duties including drainage and clearance of pathways
- Clearing leaves around the site
- Carrying out minor repairs around the site
- Helping with guttering and gully clearance

**Work Experience**:

- General maintenance knowledge / experience e.g. minor electrical, decorating, plumbing, joinery work etc.
- Previous experience working within grounds care and maintenance
- General plant knowledge
- Competent working to Health and Safety and COSHH regulations
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Ability to manage pressure and conflicting demands, and prioritise tasks
- Ability to organise own time and workload
- Willingness to receive training on current Health and Safety / EHO issues
- Satisfactory DBS

**Holmes Chapel Health Centre**
**Job Description - Maintenance Supervisor**

**Other tasks**
- Ensure building security - have thorough knowledge of doors/windows/alarm.
- Any other tasks allocated by managers

**Confidentiality**:

- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may be divulged only to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

**Health & Safety**:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others’ health, safety and security as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures. This will include:

- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
- Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised.
- Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holder’s role.
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually).
- Reporting potential risks identified.

**Equality and diversity**:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
- Respecting the privac