Contact information
For informal enquiries, please contact regarding the role please email Claire Royle - Vacancy Control Manager midyorks.infrastructurevacancycontrol@nhs.net
About the role
*PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY*
Maintenance Electrician – Power Your Career in the NHS
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Are you an experienced electrician looking for more than just a job? Do you want your skills to make a real difference every day?
Join Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust and play a vital role in keeping our hospitals safe, operational, and ready to deliver outstanding patient care.
Why Join Us?
At Mid Yorkshire, you’ll be part of a skilled, supportive Estates Team responsible for maintaining critical healthcare environments. Every task you complete directly supports patient care and staff wellbeing—this is engineering with real purpose.
Working Pattern
Full-time: 37.5 hours per week
Monday to Friday - 08:00 – 16:00
Flexibility may be required to support operational needs.
Your Future with Us
We are committed to helping you grow. Whether you want to:
- Develop into an Authorised Person (AP).
- Build multi-disciplinary engineering skills.
- Progress into supervisory or management roles.
- We will support your career every step of the way.
Make a Difference
In this role, your work keeps operating theatres running, wards safe, and vital services online.
This is your opportunity to use your electrical skills where they truly matter.
Apply now and help power healthcare across Mid Yorkshire.
Main duties:
As a Maintenance Electrician, you’ll be central to ensuring our hospital infrastructure runs safely and reliably.
You’ll be working across a wide range of systems—from power distribution to critical clinical environments—helping to maintain services that truly matter.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out planned and reactive electrical maintenance across Trust sites.
- Diagnose and repair faults in plant, equipment, and infrastructure systems.
- Undertake installation work and system upgrades.
- Support multi-skilled maintenance activities across disciplines.
- Provide technical advice and support to colleagues and stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with HTMs, safety standards, and statutory requirements.
- Take on Authorised Person responsibilities (where appropriate).
What Makes This Role Different?
This isn’t a typical maintenance role—you’ll also:
- Work on specialist healthcare systems, including medical gas infrastructure.
- Contribute to maintaining critical clinical environments where downtime is not an option.
- Have opportunities to lead work teams and develop supervisory skills.
- Expand your expertise into multi-trade and advanced engineering disciplines.
Essential person specification requirements
What We’re Looking For
- Recognised Electrical Apprenticeship + Level 3 qualification (NVQ / Diploma or equivalent)
- Significant experience within a large Estates or complex facilities environment.
- Strong fault finding and problem solving skills.
- Demonstrable commitment to safety, quality, and compliance.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application guidance:
We understand that more applicants are using AI technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.
Our benefits
- Access to the NHS pension plan
- Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
- Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
- Extensive benefits and support, including:
- Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Home electronics scheme
- Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
- Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
- Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
- Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
- Career progression, training and support
Skilled worker sponsorship
You can find out more about skilled worker and health and care visas on our careers site.
