Maintenance Assistant

Whittington Health; Greater London; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Whittington Health is seeking an Estates Maintenance Support role within the Trust’s Estates Department. You will perform planned and reactive maintenance, carry out minor works and painting, and help maintain records for plant and equipment.

The role emphasises adherence to safety policies and collaborative multi-trade teamwork. The post requires willingness to train, learn new skills, and participate in mandatory safety courses.

Qualifications

• No formal qualifications stated; willingness to learn and undertake training.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering maintenance to estates buildings and grounds.
• Complete detailed maintenance documentation for all works.
• Support the estates service for Whittington Health and properties.
• Apply Trust/department safety policies and procedures.

Skills

Basic maintenance

Willingness to learn

Health and safety

Team cooperation

Job description

• To provide engineering support to the estates team within their areas of responsibility: buildings and grounds.
• The post holder will be required to complete maintenance documentation in detail for all works completed.
• Responsible for assisting in the provision of a quality, efficient, responsive, flexible & effective estates service to Whittington Health and properties that the Trust works from, working as part of the Estates Department Team.
• Apply Trust/departmental safety policies and procedures system to all aspects of the work.
• To carry out unsupervised (once trained), planned preventative maintenance routines and reactive maintenance works as instructed management that does not justify the attention of a fully-qualified maintenance staff. Provide feedback to line management using various forms of communications.
• To learn minor works in other trades as required to assist maintenance staff.
• To carry out some minor painting and redecoration using roller and brush applications.
• To carry out minor installation work when required.
• To be aware of new technology and new working practises. Attend training courses as requested to develop core skills and further develop non-core skills.
• Maintain adequate records on all plant and equipment.
• To comply with Health and Safety Regulations and report any defects through the Trust helpdesk.
• To perform other routine work requiring basic skills (including labouring) as needed.
• Co-operate and assist with multi-trade maintenance staff of other trade bias and grades to complete tasks safely and as speedily as possible.
• To understand and adhere to the Trust Health and Safety Policy, Fire Safety Policy and Departmental Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s).
• To undertake any training required in order to maintain competency including mandatory training i.e. fire and manual handling.
• To carry out collection & disposal of refuse from external bins and maintain a clean external environment.
• Adhere to procedures for sickness reporting, annual leave and paid absence.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Syed Zaidi Job title: Head of Estates Email address: [e-mail]