Maintenance Assistant | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Prestwich; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent mental health service provider in the UK seeks a maintenance assistant to provide reactive, planned, and emergency maintenance across various locations. The successful candidate will support the maintenance team in ensuring efficient and compliant service provision while working within specified safety limits. Benefits include generous annual leave, excellent pension, and various employee schemes.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Excellent pension

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Wellbeing programme

Blue Light Card Discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance roles is preferred.
• Ability to use electronic devices for task management.
• Knowledge of safety regulations and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide planned, reactive, and emergency maintenance services.
• Support location managers in maintenance provision.
• Coordinate and monitor contractors for maintenance tasks.

Skills

Proactive maintenance

Flexibility

Multi-skilled tasks

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 the Employer

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.

Benefits

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

This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Nov 2025