Electrical Craftsperson (Electrician)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is seeking a qualified Electrician to join their Estates and Facilities team. This role involves maintaining essential electrical services across healthcare sites, ensuring safe and compliant environments. The successful candidate will perform specialist electrical maintenance, fault finding, repair, and installation services. It's an opportunity to work within a diverse and technically challenging healthcare environment, supporting various building services and critical infrastructure.
Essential criteria
- Completed an accredited electrical apprenticeship training course to a minimum level 3 vocational qualification or equivalent
- High level of knowledge and understanding of electrical/mechanical services/systems and a working knowledge of other associated trades.
- Familiarity with approved guidance documents
- Ability to cover shift at short notice or cover periods of sickness & annual leave
Desirable criteria
- IEE wiring regulations
- CSCS or ECS
- Knowledge of Health Technical Memoranda
- General awareness of other engineering maintenance related statutory legislation.
- General Lighting & Power systems
- Emergency lighting Systems
- Fire Alarm systems
- BMS system
- Previous experience of working within the NHS.
- Skills and Attributes
- Excellent communication skills. Willing to develop individual knowledge
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Current Full Driving licence
- Highly motivated, enthusiastic, conscientious
- Available to undertake overtime.
- Motivation skills
- Experience in team leading
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Qualification and Knowledge
- Completed an accredited electrical apprenticeship training course to a minimum level 3 vocational qualification or equivalent
- High level of knowledge and understanding of electrical/mechanical services/systems and a working knowledge of other associated trades.
- Familiarity with approved guidance documents
- Ability to cover shift at short notice or cover periods of sickness & annual leave
- IEE wiring regulations
- CSCS or ECS
- Knowledge of Health Technical Memoranda
- General awareness of other engineering maintenance related statutory legislation.
- General Lighting & Power systems
- Emergency lighting Systems
- Fire Alarm systems
- BMS system
- Previous experience of working within the NHS.
- Skills and Attributes
- Excellent communication skills. Willing to develop individual knowledge
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Current Full Driving licence
- Highly motivated, enthusiastic, conscientious
- Available to undertake overtime.
- Motivation skills
- Experience in team leading
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work as part of a team
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,557 – £39,631 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Electrical Craftsperson (Electrician)
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
Are you a qualified Electrician looking for a rewarding role where your skills directly support patient care?
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is seeking a motivated and skilled Electrician to join our Estates and Facilities team.
You will play a vital role in maintaining essential electrical services across our healthcare sites, ensuring safe, reliable, and compliant environments for patients, visitors and colleagues.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a diverse and technically challenging healthcare environment, supporting a wide range of building services, engineering systems and critical infrastructure.
Main duties of the job
As a Band 5 Electrician, you will provide specialist electrical maintenance, fault finding, repair and installation services across Health Board premises.
Your work will include:
- Planned preventative maintenance and reactive repairs
- Installation and maintenance of lighting and power systems
- Emergency lighting testing and maintenance
- Fire alarm testing and isolations
- Generator and battery testing
- Building Management Systems (BMS)
- Air Handling Units and associated plant
- Replacement of motors, pumps and electrical equipment
- Inspection, testing and certification in accordance with
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