Estates Specialist Maintenance Assistant

Job overview

Join our Estates team and help create a safe, reliable and welcoming environment where patients, staff and visitors can feel confident.

We’re looking for a skilled and motivated Estates Maintenance professional to join our team. This is a hands-on role where your practical expertise, problem-solving skills and attention to detail will make a real difference every day.

Working across Trust facilities, you’ll carry out a varied range of routine and moderately complex maintenance activities, including fault finding and diagnosis, repairs and planned preventative maintenance. Working alongside and under the guidance of our Estates Team Leaders and Officers, you’ll help keep our buildings, systems and equipment operating safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

This is more than just a maintenance role. The work you do directly supports the delivery of excellent patient care. By keeping our facilities safe, functional and well maintained, you’ll play an essential part in creating an environment where our clinical teams can focus on what matters most.

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Main duties of the job

What you’ll be doing

• Carrying out planned, reactive and preventative maintenance across Trust facilities.
• Diagnosing faults and completing repairs to a high standard.
• Identifying potential risks and taking proactive action to prevent failures, injuries or damage.
• Working safely and following Trust policies, safe systems of work, statutory requirements and industry best practice.
• Supporting the efficient operation and upkeep of buildings, equipment and essential systems.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across the Estates team to deliver a responsive and high-quality service.
• Maintaining a strong focus on safety, quality and the needs of our patients, staff and visitors

If you’re someone who enjoys solving problems, takes pride in doing a job well and wants to see the real impact of your work, this could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.

You’ll become part of a supportive, skilled and dedicated Estates team, where your contribution is valued and every day brings a new challenge.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification attached for more details on the job role.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.