• Job Description

  Req#: C9298-EST-335?language=en&page=749&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Expected Shortlisting Date

  15/07/2025

  Planned Interview Date

  15/08/2025

  Help keep our Estate looking clean, fresh and uplifting for our patients, staff and visitors!

  Here at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust were looking to appoint a professional Painter and Decorator on a permanent and full-time basis.

  As part of our Estates team, you'll play a crucial role in helping to create a pleasant environment for our patients, visitors and staff. In a large acute hospital like Leeds Teaching Hospitals, a welcoming, well-maintained environment can make those in our care feel safe and welcome.

  You'll be helping to maintain our hospital environments to the highest standard to ensure areas like wards, communal spaces, offices and staff rooms, to mention a few areas, are suitable and welcoming for anyone who needs them.

  In this role, you'll help to support the environment of all our hospital sites and can be deployed to any one of our four hospital sites in Leeds.

  Fulltime, the positions provides 37.5 hours per week.

  Main duties of the job

  The successful candidate will be part of a team of 6 working trust wide. The primary role is to ensure the Trust's Internal environments are maintained to a high standard.

  The work will include routine and planned painting and decorating work duties.

  The successful candidate will be responsible for associated tools, plant and materials which are used within the scope of their work within the Estates Department.

  This job can involve prolonged periods of physical activity the post holder must be capable of undertaking such duties.

  The successful candidate could be required to drive Trust vehicles, holding a full, current, British drivers licence would be highly beneficial.

  Training is available, subject to budget, as part of the position and the candidate may be required to attend training on an external providers premises.

  About us

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest employers in Leeds, employing over 20,000 staff and providing care to 1.6 million patients every year. The Estates and Facilities team keep the Trust's sites running and manage one of the largest estate portfolios across the NHS. With over 2,300 staff, we provide a range of Estates & Facilities management services and ensure our buildings and environments are fit for purpose, clean and safe.

  Whether we're cleaning wards, maintaining buildings, monitoring environmental impact, providing staff childcare, delivering hot meals to patients, or patrolling our sites, we support the delivery of patient care. Guided by our Leeds Way Values, we are committed to creating the best place to work and being the employer of choice for Estates and Facilities professionals in the region.

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

  Details

  Date posted

  25 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 4

  Salary

  £27,485 to £30,162 a year Subject to Pay Award

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  C9298-EST-335

  Job locations

  St. James's University Hospital

  Beckett Street

  Leeds

  LS9 7TF

  
  

  Leeds General Infirmary

  Great George Street

  Leeds

  LS1 3EX

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Job Title: Maintenance Craftsman 4 - 8

  Reports to: Estates Officer

  Accountable to: Estates Manager (Operational)

  Band: 4

  Unit/Department: Estates

  CSU Directorate: Estates & Facilities

  Location[1] Trust Wide

  AfC Job No: 1382

  JOB PURPOSE

  Craftsmen will be employed on work appropriate to their core specialist skills.

  They will have the ability to fulfil their duties with a total commitment to versatility and will be suitably trained to acquire elements of other skills with the intention of reaching levels of flexibility and competence to enable them to achieve and apply the ability where required.

  They will continue to develop elements of other skills, reaching levels of flexibility and competence to enable them to achieve and apply the ability where required.

  Responsible for the safe maintenance, assembly, dismantling and repair of equipment others may use.

  Where appropriate they will be called on to provide technical support to Managers and Team Leaders

  A large proportion of work will be internally generated through building Management Systems and through direct customer interface.

  JOB DIMENSIONS

  Working to standards laid down in Trust policies and legislation to provide a safe and supportive environment for patients, staff and visitors

  Work with clinical staff to give non-clinical advice, information and guidance.

  Liaise with all internal departments and external contractors and suppliers.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Job Title: Maintenance Craftsman 4 - 8

  Reports to: Estates Officer

  Accountable to: Estates Manager (Operational)

  Band: 4

  Unit/Department: Estates

  CSU Directorate: Estates & Facilities

  Location[1] Trust Wide

  AfC Job No: 1382

  JOB PURPOSE

  Craftsmen will be employed on work appropriate to their core specialist skills.

  They will have the ability to fulfil their duties with a total commitment to versatility and will be suitably trained to acquire elements of other skills with the intention of reaching levels of flexibility and competence to enable them to achieve and apply the ability where required.

  They will continue to develop elements of other skills, reaching levels of flexibility and competence to enable them to achieve and apply the ability where required.

  Responsible for the safe maintenance, assembly, dismantling and repair of equipment others may use.

  Where appropriate they will be called on to provide technical support to Managers and Team Leaders

  A large proportion of work will be internally generated through building Management Systems and through direct customer interface.

  JOB DIMENSIONS

  Working to standards laid down in Trust policies and legislation to provide a safe and supportive environment for patients, staff and visitors

  Work with clinical staff to give non-clinical advice, information and guidance.

  Liaise with all internal departments and external contractors and suppliers.

  Person Specification

  Skills & Behaviours

  Essential

  • Ability to carry out physical tasks
  • Ability to risk assess work environments
  • Ability to deliver traditional and alternative paint application techniques
  • Able to work under own initiative and as part of a team

  Desirable

  • Ability to use electronic work management systems and devices for the receiving of and signing off of work requests

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • NVQ level 3 in Painting and Decorating or equivalent.

  Desirable

  • Current Drivers licence.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Completion of a recognised registered apprenticeship in Painting and Decorating
  • Significant (post apprenticeship) relevant experience

  Desirable

  • Working in an Acute Hospital environment
  • Knowledge and experience in an Acute Hospital environment

  Additional Requirements

  Essential

  • Have a thorough and working knowledge, of a wide range of Painting and Decorating processes, underpinned by relevant practical experience.
  • Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own work to provide an efficient service to the Trust and adhere to all Trust policies and procedures. To complete all relevant daily documentation in compliance

  Person Specification

  Skills & Behaviours

  Essential

  • Ability to carry out physical tasks
  • Ability to risk assess work environments
  • Ability to deliver traditional and alternative paint application techniques
  • Able to work under own initiative and as part of a team

  Desirable

  • Ability to use electronic work management systems and devices for the receiving of and signing off of work requests

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • NVQ level 3 in Painting and Decorating or equivalent.

  Desirable

  • Current Drivers licence.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Completion of a recognised registered apprenticeship in Painting and Decorating
  • Significant (post apprenticeship) relevant experience

  Desirable

  • Working in an Acute Hospital environment
  • Knowledge and experience in an Acute Hospital environment

  Additional Requirements

  Essential

  • Have a thorough and working knowledge, of a wide range of Painting and Decorating processes, underpinned by relevant practical experience.
  • Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own work to provide an efficient service to the Trust and adhere to all Trust policies and procedures. To complete all relevant daily documentation in compliance

  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

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals

  Address

  St. James's University Hospital

  Beckett Street

  Leeds

  LS9 7TF

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals

  Address

  St. James's University Hospital

  Beckett Street

  Leeds

  LS9 7TF

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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