About this role
Job summary
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced and motivated Tradesperson (Joiner) to join our Estates Team. This is an excellent opportunity to apply your trade skills in a healthcare environment, helping to maintain safe, functional, and welcoming facilities for patients, staff, and visitors across our Trust.
Working as part of a professional Estates team, you will undertake a wide range of joinery and building maintenance tasks, from planned preventative maintenance and repairs to refurbishment projects and emergency response works. No two days are the same, and your skills will directly support the delivery of vital healthcare services.
Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HTFT would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of our Estates Department, you will:
Carry out high-quality joinery repairs, maintenance, installations, and improvements across Trust properties. Undertake planned preventative maintenance (PPM), inspections, testing, and compliance checks. Diagnose faults and respond to urgent maintenance issues to minimise disruption to clinical services. Work across a variety of building maintenance disciplines, developing additional multi-trade skills where required. Read and interpret drawings, specifications, and maintenance manuals. Use modern CAFM systems (Planet FM) to manage and record maintenance activities. Support maintenance assistants through mentoring and practical guidance. Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the Estates and Facilities service.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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Job description Job responsibilities
For further information regarding this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Level 3 vocational qualification or equivalent plus relevant or equivalent experience To have completed a recognised trade apprenticeship and hold a BTEC/HNC/Diploma in Building or Engineering City & Guilds qualification with intermediate practical and theoretical knowledge acquired through a diploma plus significant equivalent experience in their specialist field.
Desirable
Additional trade relevant certification
Knowledge & Experience Essential
Good communication and inter-personal skills. Knowledge of Health & Safety Policy and Safe Working Procedures Ability to work under own initiative in a demand driven service.
Desirable
Previous experience in a hospital maintenance environment with exposure to all building and engineering aspects
Skills and Competencies Essential
Ability to work quickly and efficiently in difficult environments and under pressure, to assess situations rapidly and makeaccurate relevant decisions
Desirable
Abestos Awarenes Training Lifting and Handling Training
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details Employer name Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Address Mary Seacole Building
Beverley Road
Willerby
HU10 6ED
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.humber.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)