Maintenance Assistant

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Prestwich; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health service provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a maintenance assistant to provide essential maintenance services across various sites. The position involves reactive, planned, and emergency maintenance while ensuring efficient support to location managers. Ideal candidates should possess multi-trade knowledge and experience in a hospital or mental health environment. This role offers a salary between £24,937 and £26,598 per annum pro rata, alongside benefits like 27 days annual leave and a cycle to work scheme.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Blue Light Card Discounts

Responsibilities

• Provide reactive, planned, and emergency maintenance services.
• Coordinate work of contractors for maintenance and cleaning.
• Support location managers in delivering effective maintenance services.

Skills

Basic Maths and English

Experience in working in a Hospital environment

Multi Trade knowledge

Good Maths and English

Experience in working in a Mental Health Environment

Building Trade Knowledge/Experience

Job description

To work within the maintenance team providing reactive, planned and emergency maintenance using skills in carrying out a wide and varied spectrum of tasks efficiently, to the required quality standard and within your own competence and safety limits.

Please note - This role is not eligible for sponsorship unless you meet criteria by temporary exemption from current changes to immigration rules put in force on 22/07/2025. Separate provisions are applied to workers who have been sponsored and held continuously Skilled Worker visa since prior to 04/04/2024.

Main duties of the job

• The position of maintenance assistant will be based at the Prestwich site with a percentage of the time spent supporting GMMH buildings on the site and locations within Manchester, Bolton, Cumbria, Salford and Trafford. This may change depending on the needs of the service.
• Work will be notified via an electronic medium iPad or iPhone and the successful candidate will plan their daily tasks throughout the Trust's estate.
• Providing a proactive and flexible multi skilled planned, reactive and emergency maintenance service at the various locations as part of the Estates Team. Supporting the location managers in the day to day provision of a maintenance service, ensuring that it fulfils its function effectively, economically and efficiently within legislation and guidance standards.
• Co-ordinating and monitor the work of contractors appointed to undertake maintenance, cleaning and waste management.

About us

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7,000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Job responsibilities

See attached detailed Job description and Person specification

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Blue Light Card Discounts

Person Specification

Skills

• Basic Maths and English
• Experince in working in a Hospital enviroment
• Multi Trade knowledge
• Good Maths and English
• Experience in working in an Mental Health Enviroment
• Building Trade Knowledge / Experience

Knowledge

• Multi Trade knowledge
• experience with Hospital Maintenance

Communications

• Able to communicate

Team Work

• Able to work within a team
• Willing to Join the on-call rota
• Able to work on own initiative

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.

£24,937 to £26,598 a yearper annum pro rata