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Job summary
The Maintenance Craftsperson (Higher) Building and Flooring will be responsible for ensuring the effective delivery of high-quality, internal and external, building fabric replacement and repair services across Trust sites. The successful candidate will undertake the maintenance and potential re-development of a number of general building fabric elements including but not limited to roofs, masonry, internal partitioning, groundworks, hard landscaping and internal floor finishing and structure while ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation, Trust policies and environmental standards. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced General Builder who is enthusiastic about maintaining and improving general building fabric elements within a complex healthcare setting, to join the Operational Estates team and contribute toward "making a difference" for our patients, visitors and staff.
Main duties of the job
Conduct planned and reactive maintenance on building fabric elements across the Trust estate. Undertake internal and external building repairs, alterations and improvements, ensuring compliance with HTMs, HBNs, Building Regulations and healthcare Estate standards. Install, manufacture, assemble and repair a wide range of building and structural components, using technical drawings, specifications and professional judgement to deliver high-quality workmanship. Specialise in flooring systems and finishes, ensuring floors, walls, ceilings and associated building fabric are maintained to healthcare standards. Diagnose faults and resolve via repair complex issues affecting building fabric, structural components, roofing, windows, doors and associated fixtures to minimise disruption to hospital services. Maintain and repair complex window systems, including locking mechanisms, gearing systems and safety features, ensuring statutory compliance and operational reliability. Contribute to building condition surveys, inspections, technical assessments and the producing of reports and recommendations for future maintenance, refurbishment and capital improvement projects. Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About us
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.
Details
- Date posted: 26 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 5
- Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 001951
- Job locations: Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 3EX, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
For questions about this job, contact:
Robert Thompson Estates Manager Robertm.Thompson@nhs.net 07771620237 Shortlisting Date: 15/09/2026 Interview Date: 25/09/2026
Job Summary
The Maintenance Craftsperson (Higher) Building and Flooring will be responsible for ensuring the effective delivery of high-quality, internal and external, building fabric replacement and repair services across Trust sites. The successful candidate will undertake the maintenance and potential re-development of a number of general building fabric elements including but not limited to roofs, masonry, internal partitioning, groundworks, hard landscaping and internal floor finishing and structure while ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation, Trust policies and environmental standards.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced General Builder who is enthusiastic about maintaining and improving general building fabric elements within a complex healthcare setting, to join the Operational Estates team and contribute toward "making a difference" for our patients, visitors and staff.
Why you should join our Team
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest employers in Leeds, employing over 20,000 staff and providing care to 1.6 million patients every year. The Estates and Facilities team keep the Trust's sites running and manage one of the largest estate portfolios across the NHS. With over 2,300 staff, we provide a range of Estates & Facilities management services and ensure our buildings and environments are fit for purpose, clean and safe.
Whether we are cleaning wards, maintaining buildings, monitoring environmental impact, providing staff childcare, delivering hot meals to patients, or patrolling our sites, we support the delivery of patient care. Guided by our Leeds Way Values, we are committed to creating the best place to work and being the employer of choice for Estates and Facilities professionals in the region.
What you will bring to the role
Conduct planned and reactive maintenance on building fabric elements across the Trust estate.
Undertake internal and external building repairs, alterations and improvements, ensuring compliance with HTMs, HBNs, Building Regulations and healthcare Estate standards.
Install, manufacture, assemble and repair a wide range of building and structural components, using technical drawings, specifications and professional judgement to deliver high-quality workmanship.
Specialise in flooring systems and finishes, ensuring floors, walls, ceilings and associated building fabric are maintained to healthcare standards.
Diagnose faults and resolve via repair complex issues affecting building fabric, structural components, roofing, windows, doors and associated fixtures to minimise disruption to hospital services.
Maintain and repair complex window systems, including locking mechanisms, gearing systems and safety features, ensuring statutory compliance and operational reliability.
Contribute to building condition surveys, inspections, technical assessments and the producing of reports and recommendations for future maintenance, refurbishment and capital improvement projects.
Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our Trust values
The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.
We are….
Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind
Our Trust priorities
Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time
Our priorities:
People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work unsupervised and autonomously
- Ability to plan and organise own workload
- Problem solving of technical issues and fault diagnosis on complex structural components.
- Interpret and work from all instructions, drawings and specifications in structural component installations, plant and equipment
- Manufacture, design, assemble, erect and install new work often using own judgement regarding a range of complex equipment, requiring accuracy and precision and speed especially when working to deadlines.
- Carry out Planned Preventative Maintenance and Day to Day duties involving the maintenance of structural elements and equipment including roads and footpaths, external drainage, walls, floors, ceilings, windows, doors, roofs and all relevant fire compartmentalisation and associated elements.
- Carry out reactive maintenance and repair to roads and footpaths, external drainage, walls, floors, ceilings, windows, doors, roofs and all relevant fire compartmentalisation and associated elements.
- Use and input data into information technology and associated systems, PDA's tablets etc.
- Use of electronic devices to monitor and analyse reports from complex Building Management System and Security Systems and equipment to include data collection, first line diagnostics, performance analysis and maintenance.
- Carry out own dynamic Risk Assessments for all elements of work including manual handling
- Supervise and organise Estates work taking place in a Clinical environment, including the allocation of resources as appropriate
- Liaise with area users to organise shutdowns of critical areas relating to patient care and safety.
- Provide practical training to others and evaluates work.
- Ability to prioritise own workload.
Knowledge
Essential
- Have a thorough knowledge across a range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practical experience.
- To have an understanding and be aware of the impact and risks of maintenance delivery in an acute hospital environment.
- To have an understanding and be aware of the impact and risks of working with fine tools especially around patients, staff and visitors.
- Ensure that all tasks are carried out in compliance with relevant statutory legislation, local policies, codes of practice and permits to work including Health and Safety, Asbestos Regulations, COSHH and in particular by following agreed safe working procedures.
- Observe statutory and other relevant requirements in particular to Health & Safety and Codes of Practice applicable to Operational Services.
Desirable
- Health Technical Memorandum including fire code
- Health Building Notes
- Building Regulations and Codes of Practice
- The Equality Act
Experience
Essential
- Previous demonstrable experience working on breakdowns and PPM on complex Structural and building components found in a hospital environment.
Desirable
- Experience of Working in an Acute Hospital Environment
- Experience of Construction Design & Management Regulations
Qualifications
Essential
- HND or equivalent experience or willing to work towards a HND
- City & Guilds Advanced Craft Certificate Site Procedures & General Processes
- NVQ Level 3 Carpentry & Joinery, Bricklayer/Mason
- City & Guilds Advanced Craft Certificate Carpentry and Joinery
Desirable
- Confined Spaces Regulations qualification
- Wood Machinery Competence qualification
- Working at Heights Training Certificate
- Prefabricated Access Suppliers' & Manufacturers' Association Ltd (PASMA) certification
- Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP) operator's license
- International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) operator's certificate
- Asbestos Awareness certification
- Fork lift truck driving license
- 360 degree digger driving license
- First Aid Trained
Personal Qualities and Behaviours
Essential
- Patient-centred
- Collaborative
- Fair
- Accountable
- Empowered
- Maintain effective communication with colleagues in all working areas via appropriate technology
- Display a working knowledge and understanding of service users' needs and requirements
- Adaptable to change
- Pleasant manner, smart clean appearance
- Undertake all training required
- To be responsible for working with colleagues to maintain and improve the quality of services provided to our patients and other service users.
- The jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for his/her own personal development and undertake all mandatory training required for the role particularly attending refresher training on an annual basis.
- To work as part of the Estates Team in line with Trust and Departmental Policies and Procedures, providing and receiving complex information.
- Reassure patients when working in close proximity.
- Provide point of contact dispute resolution with staff and public who can often be aggressive.
- To respect patient and Trust confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information.
Other Requirements and Working Conditions
Essential
- Provide an emergency out of hours service, covering 365 days a year subject to appropriate negotiations.
- Participate in appropriate emergency cover system, subject to appropriate negotiations, and be prepared to work such hours that may be required in an emergency.
- This job does involve long periods of physical activity, possibly in adverse and inclement weather conditions, and therefore the post holder must be capable of undertaking such duties.
- Frequently required to work alone for prolonged periods
- Lifting weights frequently during the shift in accordance with the Trusts manual handling policy.
- Frequent Working at heights and in cramped spaces
- Frequent lifting of very heavy weights and equipment using mechanical aids
- The post holder will be required to work with mechanical and hand tools.
- Driving works van.
- The job requires the working in adverse weather conditions
- Job holders are required to work in various restricted areas e.g. Mortuary, Theatre's, Plant Rooms, Ceiling Voids, Interstitial Voids, Ducts.
- Occasional requirement to work in Confined Spaces after appropriate training and in accordance with the Trusts Operating Procedures.
- Frequent exposure to Hazards e.g. Asbestos, Chemicals, Wood Dust, Bacteria/Viruses after appropriate training and using PPE
- Carry Trust communication devices (PDA's) to facilitate immediate response to reactive requests, planned maintenance and emergency breakdowns.
- To ensure that the uniform supplied by the Trust is worn correctly and is regularly laundered.
- To ensure that the Trust supplied I.D. badge is worn at all times.
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