Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist – Mechanical | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare organization in the UK is seeking an Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist to join their team. The ideal candidate will have a mechanical or plumbing background and will be responsible for maintenance and installation work across various hospital sites. Excellent technical engineering advice and support are crucial for this role. Flexible work patterns are encouraged, and a mileage allowance will be provided for commuting between sites. The advert closes on Wednesday 12 Nov 2025.

Benefits

Mileage allowance

Flexible working patterns

Recruitment and retention payment

Qualifications

• You will be a technician with a mechanical or plumbing background.
• You will carry out maintenance and installation work with minimum supervision.
• You will provide technical engineering advice for the maintenance of equipment.

Responsibilities

• Attend maintenance requests and on-call urgent call outs.
• Deputize for the Team Leader in their absence.
• Commute between various hospital sites.

Skills

Mechanical or plumbing background

Technical engineering advice

Maintenance and installation work

Job description

Overview

We are recruiting for an Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The role is busy and varied, working as part of the Mechanical team, as well as the rest of the maintenance team and managing your own workload. You will be required to liaise with people within your department and around the Trusts Sites. You will be expected to commute between various hospital sites. A mileage allowance will be paid for this facility. At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

The role will require attending maintenance requests, on call urgent call outs and weekly Planned Maintenance work orders. As well as the monthly wage, Estates Engineers are currently entitled to a recruitment and retention payment at £3277 pa.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

Responsibilities

• You will be a technician with a mechanical or plumbing background and will carry out, with minimum supervision, maintenance and installation work on all facilities, plant and equipment throughout East and North Herts NHS Trust Estate, to deputise for the Team Leader in their absence.
• You will also provide technical engineering advice and support for the maintenance of equipment, fabric, and utility services for the trust.
• You will be expected to commute between various hospital sites. A mileage allowance will be paid for this facility.

Hospitals

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

Additional Information

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Application details

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role. This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Nov 2025.