# Maintenance Assistant

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** North View
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Maintenance worker
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Happy to discuss flexible working)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-18T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14T06:50:35.175Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Prestwich/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8239556
- **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

To work within the maintenance team providing reactive, planned and emergency maintenance using skills in carrying out a wide and varied spectrum of tasks efficiently, to the required quality standard and within your own competence and safety limits.

Please note - This role is not eligible for sponsorship unless you meet criteria by temporary exemption from current changes to immigration rules put in force on 22/07/2025. Separate provisions are applied to workers who have been sponsored and held continuously Skilled Worker visa since prior to 04/04/2024.

### Main duties of the job

- The position of maintenance assistant will be based at the Prestwich site with a percentage of the time spent supporting GMMH buildings on the site and locations within Manchester, Bolton, Cumbria, Salford and Trafford. This may change depending on the needs of the service.
- Work will be notified via an electronic medium iPad or iPhone and the successful candidate will plan their daily tasks throughout the Trust’s estate.
- Providing a proactive and flexible multi skilled planned, reactive and emergency maintenance service at the various locations as part of the Estates Team. Supporting the location managers in the day to day provision of a maintenance service, ensuring that it fulfils its function effectively, economically and efficiently within legislation and guidance standards.
- Co-ordinating and monitor the work of contractors appointed to undertake maintenance, cleaning and waste management.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached detailed Job description and Person specification

Staff benefits

- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Excellent pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- Blue Light Card Discounts

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Basic Maths and English
- Experince in working in a Hospital enviroment
- Multi Trade knowledge

**Desirable**

- Good Maths and English
- Experience in working in an Mental Health Enviroment
- Building Trade Knowledge / Experience

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Multi Trade knowledge

**Desirable**

- experience with Hospital Maintenance

### Team Work

**Essential**

- Able to work within a team
- Willing to Join the on-call rota

**Desirable**

- Able to work on own initiative

### Communications

**Essential**

- Able to communicate

**Desirable**

- Good Communicator

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 252.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10550280)
- [personal specification (pdf, 176.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10550281)
- [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931)

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