Maintenance Assistant

Please note that this role is advertised on behalf of Atlas BFW Management Ltd (Atlas), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and as such, successful applicant(s) will be on Atlas Terms and Conditions. For further information about Atlas, please visit: www.bfwml.co.uk

The post holder will provide the necessary skills to carry out maintenance work at premises within the Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre, Lancaster and Morecambe areas and those organisations that have contractual arrangements with Atlas.

This role will involve working effectively and being responsive to the users needs with the minimum of supervision, whilst also providing support to the multi-skilled maintenance crafts persons and contractor staff, in the repair, installation, service of hospital plant and equipment, site facilities and building fabric.

The post holder will be progressively trained with the intention of gaining increasing competence and to enable them to achieve and apply their ability at a higher craft and multi craft workers level and to carry out the majority of non-routine and also routine works.

The Company, which began trading in March 2017, was established as a wholly owned subsidiary company of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and provides fully managed healthcare facilities services, including medical devices management, capital and estates services and facilities management, to clients across the Fylde Coast and North West region.

Over the last four years we have developed and strengthened the services we provide, with an aim to provide the best high quality cost-effective property and facilities services across the North West.

Our profits are used to both help grow the business and to enhance our clients’ service provision and during the recent COVID-19 pandemic we have been proud to support our clients’ front line clinical services by helping to provide the best possible environment for their patients, service users, customers, staff and visitors.

Atlas enjoys the opportunities to develop and grow which it is afforded as an independent company; however, as a wholly owned subsidiary of an NHS organisation, the Company also remains committed to upholding the NHS core values of ethics, honesty and integrity. In addition, we use our unique position to develop and enhance collaborative integrated working with partners across the local health economy wherever possible.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Doug Wilson Job title: Estates Building Officer Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01253 956478