Job requirements
Essential
21 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience on aspects of mechanical building services including boiler plant compressed air pumping installations
- Knowledge and Experience
Heating Controls
- Knowledge and Experience
Pressure systems
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience in fault diagnosis and have the ability to interpreted and analyse complex critical equipment and systems.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience in identifying problems with Building management systems.
- Qualifications and Training
Mechanical engineering apprenticeship
- Personal attributes and Skills
Multi-disciplinary team working
- Personal attributes and Skills
Communicate effectively verbal and written
- Personal attributes and Skills
Analytical and problem solving skills
- Personal attributes and Skills
Time management skills
- Personal attributes and Skills
Able to prioritise workload
- Personal attributes and Skills
Excellent diagnostic and fault finding skills
- Personal attributes and Skills
General Computer skills
- Personal attributes and Skills
Familiar with PPM Management systems and Data bases
- Personal attributes and Skills
Liaise with specialist service contractor
- Personal attributes and Skills
Liaise with departmental managers
- Personal attributes and Skills
Team player conscientious and methodical
- Personal attributes and Skills
Willing to participate in flexible versatile working, out of hours working, recall to work across all Trust sites
- Personal attributes and Skills
Participate in NVQ training
- Personal attributes and Skills
Ability to address problems and seek solutions
- Personal attributes and Skills
Participate in the on call rota for mechanical staff
Desirable
20 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge and Experience
Heating and ventilation systems, carrying out annual verification of Critical AHU system in accordance with HTM03-01
- Knowledge and Experience
Piped medical gas systems
- Knowledge and Experience
Decontamination equipment - sterilizers, washer disinfectors
- Knowledge and Experience
Working in a frontline customer service based organisation
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience in identifying and rectification of legionella risk assessment surveys.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience in identifying and rectification complex problems in mechanical systems.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience in using CAFM software(Planet)
- Knowledge and Experience
Air conditioning systems
- Qualifications and Training
Customer care and team based working
- Qualifications and Training
Gas Safe regulations
- Qualifications and Training
CP Water, CP Vent , CP Medical Gas , CP Pressure
- Qualifications and Training
C & G Part II Full Technological Cert
- Qualifications and Training
Course 205-3 Mechanical Engineering Maintenance Part 2
- Qualifications and Training
Electrical skills training
- Personal attributes and Skills
Effective communication style.
- Personal attributes and Skills
Self-motivated
- Personal attributes and Skills
Effectively communicate both technical and non-technical advice to clinical professionals
- Personal attributes and Skills
Liaison between estates and other directorate to provide effective communication where service delivery or there is a risk to patient care
- Personal attributes and Skills
Ability to effectively communicate with patients to provide reassurance and information about estates activities
- Personal attributes and Skills
Experience of carrying out point of work risk assessment.
Job summary
PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
To participate in the effective and efficient day to day operation and maintenance of all types of engineering plant and equipment associated with a modern day NHS Foundation Trust Hospital.
Maintenance Craftsperson will be employed on work appropriate to their core specialist skills and should possess levels of flexibility and competence to allow them to perform the following.
Performs work including activities, which are complex, and/or non-routine. Responsible for calibration and fault finding on a wide range of engineering plant and equipment (steam, raising plant and associated equipment, sterilizers, washer/disinfectors, piped medical gas systems, low pressure hot water systems and natural gas systems.
Main duties of the job
Undertaking maintenance, repairs, minor improvements and minor capital work across the Trust, ensuring compliance with Trust safety standards and procedures.
About us
DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues. At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions. As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:o Extensive range of learning opportunitieso NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditionso Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.
Details
- Date posted: 01 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 5
- Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year Pro Rata Per Annum
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 272-7945647-B
- Job locations: Bassetlaw District General Hospital, Kilton Hill, Worksop, S81 0BD, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read this document carefully.Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
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This advert is for Mechanical Craftsperson with Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Worksop, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Estates and facilities role. The advertised salary is £32073.00 to £39043.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 14 Oct 2026.
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