Estates Maintenance Assistant

Provide a reliable estates support service across Trust sites, undertaking a range of complex and non-routine tasks to ensure safe and well-maintained environments. Responsibilities include carrying out routine semi-skilled maintenance and minor repairs to Trust buildings and surrounding grounds that do not require a fully qualified craftsperson. The role also involves escorting Estates staff and external contractors across inpatient units to ensure compliance with site procedures, as well as providing flexible holiday and absence cover for site-based Estates personnel to maintain continuity of service.

Main duties of the job

Provide hands on support to operational teams within patient environments by carrying out routine maintenance, minor repairs and assisting with planned preventative maintenance tasks. The role involves liaising with estates staff and contractors, ensuring safe working practices in potentially hazardous areas and supporting compliance through inspections, audits, and equipment checks. Additional duties include basic servicing tasks (e.g. fire safety equipment, PAT testing, and medical gases), maintaining records such as meter readings, assisting with deliveries and transport using Trust vehicles, helping ensure sites remain safe and functional including winter maintenance when required.

Person Specification Qualifications, Education and Training

• Knowledge of maintenance tasks, e.g. basic plumbing, repairs, portable appliance testing (PAT Testing), labouring.
• Vocational Qualification in the testing of portable electrical equipment (City and Guilds accredited).
• Qualification in the service and maintenance of fire extinguishers. (British Fire Consortium Cert, or IFEDA Accreditation Cert).

Knowledge and Experience

• Basic knowledge of D.I.Y. skills
• Proven record of working as a semiskilled multi task operator, i.e. able to use a variety of relevant tools and equipment within safe working guidelines.
• Experience of engineering services within a healthcare/mental health environment.

Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities

• Ability to interact appropriately with patients, staff and visitors and those having business with the building/unit.
• Able to work on own initiative and as a team member

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

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.