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Plumber (Fixed Term Contract or Secondment Opportunity)
Estates Team | Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Plumber to join our Estates Team on a fixed-term or secondment basis.
This is a chance to become part of a dedicated team that plays a crucial role in maintaining safe, efficient, and compliant healthcare environments across Oxford Health.
As a vital member of a multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary Estates Team, you will be responsible for delivering a high-quality plumbing service across a diverse property portfolio. You will undertake both planned preventative maintenance and reactive repairs, ensuring all work is completed safely, efficiently, and in full compliance with relevant legislation, regulations, and Trust standards.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
- Undertake a range of reactive plumbing repairs across the Trust
- This role plays a key role in maintaining and improving our facilities across the Trust.
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) to ensure the reliability and safety of systems
- Complete small works projects to a high standard
- Ensure all tasks are delivered in line with statutory regulations, policies, and best practice
- Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary estates team
Additional Requirements
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rota to support operational needs
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- experience with plantrooms
- Substantial and significant practical and theoretical mechanical knowledge of plumbing systems
- Has a good knowledge of IT systems, CAFM workforce systems
- Extremely detailed knowledge of HTM/HBN requirements in relation to estate management
Desirable
- experience with both domestic and commercial plumbing
Experience
Essential
- Significant relevant experience working within an estates maintenance team or as a site/self-employed plumber
Qualifications
Essential
- HND in Mechanical Engineering; or equivalent experience or City and Guilds Level 3 in Plumbing with extensive and relevant equivalent experience & followed an apprenticeship
Desirable
- Previous experience working for NHS
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This advert is for Senior Plumber with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Estates and facilities role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum | pro rata. The contract type is Secondment: 12 months. The application deadline is 26 Jul 2026.
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