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Job summary
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Maintenance Electrician Power Your Career in the NHS
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Are you an experienced electrician looking for more than just a job? Do you want your skills to make a real difference every day?
Join Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust and play a vital role in keeping our hospitals safe, operational, and ready to deliver outstanding patient care.
Why Join Us?
At Mid Yorkshire, youll be part of a skilled, supportive Estates Team responsible for maintaining critical healthcare environments. Every task you complete directly supports patient care and staff wellbeing this is engineering with real purpose.
Working Pattern
Full-time: 37.5 hours per week
Monday to Friday - 08:00 16:00
Flexibility may be required to support operational needs.
Your Future with Us
We are committed to helping you grow. Whether you want to:
Develop into an Authorised Person (AP).
Build multi-disciplinary engineering skills.
Progress into supervisory or management roles.
We will support your career every step of the way.
Make a Difference
In this role, your work keeps operating theatres running, wards safe, and vital services online.
This is your opportunity to use your electrical skills where they truly matter.
Apply now and help power healthcare across Mid Yorkshire.
Main duties of the job
As a Maintenance Electrician, You will be central to ensuring our hospital infrastructure runs safely and reliably.
You'll be working across a wide range of systems from power distribution to critical clinical environments helping to maintain services that truly matter.
Key Responsibilities
Carry out planned and reactive electrical maintenance across Trust sites.Diagnose and repair faults in plant, equipment, and infrastructure systems.Undertake installation work and system upgrades.Support multi-skilled maintenance activities across disciplines.Provide technical advice and support to colleagues and stakeholders.Ensure compliance with HTMs, safety standards, and statutory requirements.Take on Authorised Person responsibilities (where appropriate).
What Makes This Role Different?
This isnt a typical maintenance roleyoull also:
Work on specialist healthcare systems, including medical gas infrastructure.Contribute to maintaining critical clinical environments where downtime is not an option.Have opportunities to lead work teams and develop supervisory skills.Expand your expertise into multi-trade and advanced engineering disciplines.
About us We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers,home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Job description Job responsibilities
What We’re Looking For
Recognised Electrical Apprenticeship + Level 3 qualification (NVQ / Diploma or equivalent) Significant experience within a large Estates or complex facilities environment. Strong fault finding and problem solving skills. Demonstrable commitment to safety, quality, and compliance. Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
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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.
Employer details Employer name The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address Dewsbury District Hospital
Dewsbury
West Yorkshire
WF13 4HS
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)