Carpentry Specialist

As a skilled Carpenter and Joiner, you will play a vital role in providing a comprehensive joinery service to all wards and departments in a multi-disciplined environment, ensuring compliance with Sodexo/Trust safety standards and procedures.

Main Responsibilities:

• Assist with providing a comprehensive joinery service to all wards and departments in a multi-disciplined environment, ensuring compliance with Sodexo/Trust safety standards and procedures.
• Participate in the Hard FM team providing Joinery services, ranging from office areas, clinical spaces, circulation spaces, and external areas.
• Work confidently and understandingly in the healthcare environment, willing to learn processes that aid the ability to work in a live environment.

Operational Responsibilities:

• Carry out maintenance, repairs, and installation on a full range of Estates Structural and Fabric components/elements with minimum supervision throughout site.
• Complete first fix for other trades, for which suitable training shall be provided to ensure an efficient service is provided.
• Work on a range of structural components in the Trust's building portfolio, and fault finding on a wide range of structural elements and equipment, including roads and footpaths, walls, floors, ceilings, windows, doors, roofs, fire compartmentalisation, and associated elements.
• Comply with national statutory standards as well as Sodexo/Trust safety standards and procedures.
• Provide support for other estates trades as appropriate to their range of work.
• Undertake tasks such as patch plastering, glazing, plastic wall cladding, locksmith tasks, refitting ceiling grills.
• Manufacture, assemble, erect, and install new carpentry and joinery installations work as required.
• Use own initiative, knowledge, and experience when designing, quantifying, manufacturing, and installation of carpentry and joinery installations, complex locking systems, and equipment in accordance with current guidance and legislation.
• Maintain, repair complex locking systems, including electronic, digital, and high-security-controlled drugs cabinet locks.
• Check fire doors.
• Complete follow-on jobs through iPad.
• Undertake regular out-of-hours on-call duties as part of the on-call team to ensure that emergency repairs occurring outside of normal working hours are attended.
• From time to time, work overtime to carry out emergency repairs or general maintenance as required by management.
• Drive Sodexo vehicles as and when required.

Communications and Relationships:

• Carry Sodexo communication devices (iPads, two-way radios, mobile phones, pagers) to facilitate an immediate response to emergencies.
• Work alongside other departments of the Hard FM team and clinical colleagues across the hospital, forming professional relationships and communicating with them at all levels in a courteous and professional manner.
• Lead the situation with regard to health and safety and risk to ensure the environment is isolated until deemed safe to safeguard staff, patients, and end-users.
• Advise and assist external contractors to enable successful completion of works.
• Communicate technical and operational information to both individual and groups.
• Liaise and work with other trades/disciplines regularly, including external agencies, as part of a multi-disciplined team.
• Communicate regularly with Estates staff, Senior Management, and clinical staff.
• Communicate information around the job being completed to clinical staff, which may not always understand the technical nature of works.
• Work in both non-clinical and clinical environments, including working regularly in areas where there is patient contact.

Analytical and Judgmental Skills:

• Interpret and work from works instructions, engineering drawings, and technical specifications.
• Use electronic apps to receive, prioritise, and complete tasks via the job allocation system, reporting further actions/follow-up.
• Design, assemble, and install new work, often using own judgement regarding a range of complex equipment, requiring accuracy and precision and speed, especially when working to deadlines.
• Understand, interpret, judge, and make decisions involving complicated situations and equipment.
• Fault find, maintain, and install on a range of complex systems, such as the fitting, maintaining, repairing, and re-keying of security locks, including electronic, digital, and cabinet locks.
• Design, manufacture, and installation of joinery services, in accordance with current Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) guidance.

Planning and Organisational Skills:

• Organise, prioritise, and manage planned and reactive maintenance jobs allocated.
• Participate fully in the job allocation system, completing timesheets and job dockets, and providing all relevant information on a Personal Device provided by Sodexo.
• Provide assistance for the day-to-day operations of the team.
• Undertake surveys, evaluating inspection reports and maintenance repairs, improvement, and capital work across the Trust, as directed by management, ensuring compliance with Sodexo/Trust and national safety standards and procedures.
• Assess workload and co-ordinate with other members of the estates team, as well as informing the team leader when new equipment is required or when non-stock supplies are required.
• Responsible for sourcing correct and suitable parts for repairs and replacements.
• Report levels of non-stock items in sub-stores to the relevant team leader.
• Work efficiently with minimum supervision.

Physical Skills:

• The work can be physically demanding, including frequent periods of walking around site, movement, and lifting of tools, materials, fixtures, and fittings.
• The day will consist of periods of time in confined spaces, kneeling or lying prone next to potential hazards – high water temperatures, chemicals, human waste, and contaminated bodily waste, which need to be constantly monitored, reviewed, and re-assessed.
• Frequent periods requiring re-evaluation of the environment and safety of self and others, particularly when working outside in inclement weather.
• Ability to problem-solve at short notice to maintain safety and reduce risk of escalation.
• Working at height with the same potential hazards but also the risk of injury to self and/or others if needed to evacuate in the event of an emergency situation.
• Working may be required in restricted and confined spaces.
• Knowledge and use of PDAs and other computer systems are essential.
• There will be a requirement to drive a Sodexo vehicle on an intermittent basis.
• The post holder may be required to erect and dismantle scaffolding and staging as required, which is physically demanding to lift and carry heavy items of equipment (once qualified).

Responsibility for Patient Care:

• Being mindful of the impact of working in the vicinity of patients and staff.
• Awareness of safety of vulnerable patients where there is a locked ward/area.
• Ability to communicate effectively with the patient and the staff on ward.
• Maintain security when using access pass to enter and leave the area.

Responsibility for Policy/Service Development:

• Required to report back any issues and outcomes to the team leader.

Responsibilities for Financial and Physical Resources:

• You will have specialist understanding of the building construction on the site and the specialist requirements for maintenance and upkeep.
• Duty of care towards tools, plant, and equipment used to carry out the role.

Responsibilities for Human Resources:

• You may be required to liaise with others in all aspects of joinery and building work, work experience, other tradesmen, deal with new situations/techniques, and pass on knowledge to colleagues.
• The post holder will be required to attend any training activities that are deemed necessary in order to enable them to conduct their work in a competent manner and to ensure they meet legislative and Sodexo/Trust policy and procedure requirements.
• Required to undertake Sodexo & local inductions, appraisals, training, and any personal developments required for this role.
• The Post holder will be required to undertake practical training to refresh skills where appropriate.

Responsibility for Information Resources:

• You will be responsible for maintaining and updating records that may be held on computer databases, CAFM systems, Building Management Systems, paper-based, etc.

Responsibility for Research and Development:

• Will conduct occasional low-level audits to include the checking of equipment, fittings, fixtures, etc., and surveys.

Freedom to Act:

• The post holder is to act on their own initiative following guidance and policies. Where situations occur beyond this, guidance should be sought from management.

Partnership Working:

• This post requires a person who can fit into a flexible, reactive, and demanding department, carrying out a variety of duties of great importance to Sodexo.
• You will be required to work alongside other disciplines within Sodexo/the Trust, and it is essential that you are courteous, well-mannered, and professional at all times, and have the ability to communicate well with others.
• Work as a team member within the Hard FM team to provide maintenance & support across all disciplines.
• Liaise with wards and departments on service interruptions.

Health & Safety:

• The Post Holder will work in accordance with all Sodexo/Trust policies and procedures.
• Attends induction and regular mandatory update training on risk management policy and procedures.
• Report all accidents/incidents and ensure that all relevant documentation is complete.
• Take a proactive role in the management of risk in the work environment. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions, and reporting of all incidents, near misses, and hazards.
• Participate in the promotion of safety, well-being, and interests of patients in the ward area.
• Assist in the investigation of accidents and dangerous occurrence within the department.
• Carry out all work in accordance with the department's generic Risk Assessments and non-generic Risk Assessments as and when required.
• Use all relevant tools, machinery, and equipment to comply with current Health & Safety Legislation. Fully understand all relevant general Health & Safety issues appertaining to the relevant trade discipline.
• To work regularly in hazardous areas, taking all safety measures to prevent danger, avoid injury, and prevent damage to equipment.
• You have a personal responsibility to support your department/ward/clinic in reducing hospital-acquired infection. You must comply with Sodexo/the Trust's policies on infection, prevention, and control and maintain your competency to effectively discharge your responsibilities. You must bring deficiencies to the attention of your manager.

What You Bring:

• NVQ Level 3 - Carpentry & Joinery or City and Guilds advanced craft certificate in Carpentry and Joinery or equivalent experience.
• Full UK Driving License and ability to drive Sodexo vehicles.
• Satisfactory standard DBS.
• Availability for on-call duties.
• Experience repairing plant and equipment, as well as the ability to fault find, read drawings, diagnose, and repair equipment using your technical knowledge.
• Ability to keep work pace and meet deadlines, along with good organisation skills.
• Great communication skills, strong teamwork, and a positive attitude.
• Capable of working as part of a team or unsupervised, and of remaining calm under pressure.

Desirable:

• IPAF certification.
• Asbestos awareness certification.
• MEWP operators license.
• Working at heights training certification.
• First Aid trained.
• Previous experience working on breakdowns and PPM on complex structural and building components in a hospital environment.
• Operating hydraulic access platform.

What We Offer:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or larger problems where you may need additional support, including legal and financial advice, support with work-related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
• Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and various other services.
• The Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
• Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Sodexo Retirement Plan.
• A Death-in-Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo.
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
• Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
• Volunteering Opportunities to enable all colleagues to help support worthwhile causes in our communities.
• Flexible and dynamic work environment.
• Competitive compensation.
• Full training and full protective uniform supplied.

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