Estates Maintenance Assistant

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust; Brighton; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated Estates team as a Maintenance Assistant, where your hands-on skills will help maintain the safety and functionality of healthcare sites. This role offers you the chance to grow in a supportive environment while making a real difference in patient care. You'll be involved in various maintenance tasks, ensuring that facilities remain operational for both staff and patients. With flexible working options and a commitment to staff wellbeing, this is an excellent opportunity to develop your career in a caring and compassionate community-focused organization.

Benefits

Flexible Working Options

Excellent Training and Development Opportunities

Cost-effective Workplace Nurseries

Diversity and Inclusion Networks

Support for Reasonable Adjustments

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in building maintenance or a willingness to learn.
• Ability to respond to maintenance requests and perform repairs.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day upkeep of buildings across healthcare sites.
• Assist skilled trades staff and ensure work is completed safely.

Skills

Building Maintenance

Electrical Maintenance

Mechanical Maintenance

Plumbing

General Fabric Maintenance

Education

High School Diploma

Vocational Training in Maintenance

Job description

Are you hands-on, practical, and passionate about keeping buildings running smoothly? Join our friendly and hardworking Estates team at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust as a Maintenance Assistant.

This is your opportunity to make a real difference in patient care—behind the scenes! You’ll play a vital role in maintaining the safety and functionality of our NHS sites, ensuring they remain comfortable and operational for both patients and staff. Whether you're experienced in building maintenance or looking to grow your skills in a supportive environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Our sites span across Sussex, and we offer flexibility in your base location—this role can be based at one of several sites within the county.

Responsibilities

As a Maintenance Assistant, you'll support the day-to-day upkeep of our buildings, covering basic electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and general fabric maintenance tasks across various healthcare sites. Your responsibilities will include:

• Responding to maintenance requests and carrying out routine repairs.
• Supporting planned preventative maintenance schedules.
• Assisting skilled trades staff where needed.
• Ensuring all work is completed safely and in line with Trust policies.
  
  

This is a great opportunity to work in a varied and active role, develop your skills, and be part of a supportive team.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
  
  

Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jennifer Dunphy Job title: Associate Director of Estates Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07484 902435