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Join Our Mission to Provide Safe and Reliable Water Services in a Healthcare Environment!
We are seeking a dedicated individual for a Water Technician position to ensure the quality, and safety of water systems within our hospital. This role is critical to maintaining our commitment to health, safety, and patient care.
About the Role
The Water Technician will be a pivotal part of our water team involved in maintenance, and compliance of the hospital's water systems, including maintenance of all types of outlets, temperature recording and analysing results, remedial activities when results are not as expected and flushing of system whilst knowing why this is vital to the safety of the hospital users and patients. Your expertise will ensure that water systems meet stringent healthcare standards and support the hospital's operations.
Key Responsibilities
Monitoring of the water supply systems, including outlet plumbing, filtration, and wastewater systems connected to sinks.
Identifying and undertaking remedial activities when results do not match expected levels.
Local plumbing activities to replace local pipework.
TMV maintenance and replacement when necessary.
Legionella awareness.
Pseudomonas awareness.
Quality Assurance
Conduct routine water quality tests to meet healthcare and regulatory standards.
Ensure compliance with infection control protocols, including Legionella prevention and risk management.
Preventive Maintenance
Documentation and Reporting
Maintain accurate records of inspections, repairs, and water quality testing.
Education
Ideally history in similar role but no essential.
Certification in water treatment, plumbing, or a related field (preferred).
Ability to produce clear reports and records.
Experience
Worked within a hospital environment.
2+ years of experience in water system operation and maintenance, preferably in a healthcare or critical environment preferred but again not essential.
Skills and Knowledge
Understanding of water treatment systems, infection control protocols, and Legionella prevention.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
Good working within a team or on own initiative.
Physical Requirements
Ability to work in confined spaces.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 68,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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