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Job overview
The post holder will be responsible as the senior and lead electrical craftsperson within the in-house electrical maintenance team and to liaise and or coordinate directly with electrical contractors in the day to day running of the Estates service delivery within the Mile End Hospital and or Royal London Hospital Retained Estates within Barts Health Estates & Facilities Services.
Under direction of the Estates Supervisor and or Estates Manager ensure all buildings, plant and equipment are electrically serviced and maintained throughout Mile End Hospital and or Royal London Hospital Retained Estate in accordance with Statutory & Mandatory requirements in a timely manner. Including Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and Reactive Maintenance (RM), minor works, major overhauls and replacement. In addition, the Senior Electrical Craftsperson will be required to be a self-starter who is able to work on his/her own initiative.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the estates electrical team and maintenance contractors to ensure statutory, critical and routine tasks are completed, recorded, and fully documented for the Estates Management Team.
- Support the in‑house electrical team and contractors by ensuring adequate spares and materials are available for efficient completion of works.
- Implement improvement plans where poor performance is identified within the electrical team, escalating concerns to the Estates Supervisor or Estates Manager if progress is not achieved.
- Review completed electrical works to ensure quality, timeliness and cost‑effectiveness, addressing any issues directly with staff or contractors.
- Provide technical support and leadership to resolve electrical faults.
- Promote and uphold health and safety requirements for staff, patients, visitors and contractors through safe systems of work, site inductions, and risk/COSHH assessments.
- Work with the Estates Supervisor or Estates Manager, alongside the BHT contract performance team, to support effective auditing and ensure full compliance in delivering Trust electrical services across in‑house and PFI/outsourced provision.
- Ensure adherence to all relevant legislation, safety alerts, HTMs, NBNs, safe systems of work, approved codes of practice, and associated policies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Good inter-personnel skills, managing an electrical team and individuals. Good influencing and motivation skills.
- Able to work under pressure and meet demanding deadlines.
- Ability to build relationships with all staff groups.
- Proven performance orientated and customer focused measured service delivery
Desirable
- Ability to presents service developments to Estates management
- Ability to deal with complaints and resolve difficult service related matters.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to lead and motivate Estates electrical team
- Able to work on own initiative and within a team
- Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Supporting the electrical team and organisation through environmental change and impact through legislative and organisational impact.
Desirable
- Ability to provide advice to service end users, on a wide range of maintenance issues
- Computer literate
- Ability to maximise the use of allocated resources in the achievement of set objectives.
Knowledge
Essential
- A good working knowledge of Health & Safety principles within electrical engineering and building systems.
- Knowledge of electrical maintenance to meet relevant HTM 06.01 and HTM 06.02 standard
Experience
Essential
- In depth experience of healthcare electrical building services and to lead on the maintenance of the electrical team.
- Detailed working knowledge of preventative and reactive electrical maintenance and associated HTM
- Experience of allocating planned and reactive work to the in-house electrical team and contractors.
- Experience of successfully leading an electrical team and contractors to meet agreed outcomes.
- Understanding Standing Financial Instructions in relation to procurement and commissioning of external contracting services
Desirable
- Knowledge of information systems for the management of maintenance activity (Concept CAFM System).
- Experience of successfully leading an electrical team and contractors to meet agreed outcomes.
- Understanding Standing Financial Instructions in relation to procurement and commissioning of external contracting services.
Qualifications
Essential
- Good Literacy & numeracy skills
- To have served a recognised apprenticeship in an electrical engineering discipline or have equivalent experience.
- Qualified with Electrical ONC and or HNC level of education and or equivalent qualification.
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This advert is for Senior Electrical Craftsperson with Barts Health NHS Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Estates and facilities role. The advertised salary is per annum inc. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 15 Jul 2026.
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