Estates Officer - Laundry

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond – come and take your place with us.

Job overview

This is a fast-moving department with high demands and quick reactive responses required.

The successful candidate would be working within a small team of 3 engineers maintaining and repairing laundry and associated equipment. Reporting directly to the laundry management team the Laundry Estates Officer will also get support, training and guidance from our larger Estates team based at the Royal Oldham Hospital.

The laundry department operates several shifts throughout the week, although has limited opening at the weekend and so routinely working will be Monday to Friday.

Main duties of the job

Duties will involve preventative maintenance, fault finding, repairs and occasional installation work on laundry process plant & equipment.

Maintain effective control within the allocated resources and ensure delivery of cost-effective services in accordance with current best practice.

Responsible for managing laundry engineers and contractors and specialist contractors undertaking a variety of complex work in the health environment.

You should have an electrical engineering background and experience, be able to carry out your duties with the minimum of supervision as a hands-on worker

Duties will involve preventative maintenance, fault finding, repairs and occasional installation work on laundry process plant & equipment.

You may also be required to provide on-call cover to the laundry.

Using your own initiative, knowledge and experience, quantifying, and installing specialist mechanical services, engineering plant and equipment in accordance with current guidance and legislation.

Carry out statutory inspections and testing on engineering plant and equipment, and complete necessary documentation.

Monitor temperatures using handheld data collection device, diagnose faults, recalibrate and carry out repairs to steam gauges, boiler controls and washers, sterilisers and washer disinfectors.

Working for our organisation

Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible.

In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, marital status, social background or trade union membership. However, as members of ethnicity minority groups and individuals with disabilities are currently under-represented at this level of post, we would encourage applications from members of this group. Appointments will be based on merit alone.