Estates Maintenance Assistant

Sussexcommunity; Brighton; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Maintenance Assistant, playing a vital role in ensuring the safety and functionality of healthcare sites. This position offers flexibility in location and opportunities for skill development in a supportive environment. You'll handle basic maintenance tasks and assist skilled trades staff, contributing to excellent patient care behind the scenes.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Excellent training and development opportunities

Cost-effective workplace nurseries

Qualifications

• Experience in basic engineering plant and equipment maintenance.
• Basic Carpentry skills required.
• Experience in a similar role.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day upkeep of buildings.
• Respond to maintenance requests and carry out routine repairs.
• Assist skilled trades staff where needed.

Skills

Time Management

Communication

Basic Repairs

Education

GCSE pass in Maths and English

Tools

Hand Tools

Powered Tools

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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?o Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto 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.

Job responsibilities

For a comprehensive overview of the role, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Please note: Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules, this role is unlikely to be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk websitebefore applying to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and/or professional registration

• GCSE pass in Maths and English or equivalent qualification or level of attainment can be demonstrated.

Experience

• Experience of basic engineering plant and equipment maintenance including lighting and power systems, portable appliances, domestic appliances, firefighting systems and other associated building services plant and equipment. Basic Carpentry skills are also required.
• Experience in a similar role.
• Experience of using computers.

Skills and knowledge

• To effect basic repairs to mechanical and electrical plant and equipment.
• Skilled in the basic use of hand and powered tools.
• Full UK Driving Licence.
• Must possess good time management skills.
• Use of planned maintenance systems and record keeping
• An understanding in relation to service delivery and relationships with colleagues.
• Written and verbal communication skills enabling recording of plant data and records.
• Able to interpret and work from instructions.
• Awareness of the Health and Safety at Work Act, Electricity at Work Act, Legionella Control
• Awareness of other trade duties

Other requirements

• Access to own vehicle for work purposes.

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.