Maintenance Technician Band 5

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Grantham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

NHS Pension

Annual Leave 27–33 days

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust seeks a motivated Maintenance Technician (Estates, Band 5) based at Grantham Hospital. You will support the Estates & Capital Services team, planning and delivering maintenance activities, and ensuring safety, quality and regulatory compliance in a dynamic NHS environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering work, collaboration with clinical staff, and opportunities for professional development within a large UK health trust.

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Engineering focused education or equivalent required.
• Apprenticeship with relevant experience is desirable.
• Specialist training in hospital engineering services is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Plan and organise operational maintenance for the estates maintenance team.
• Act as Authorised or Competent Person as required.
• Support delivery of Estates Services across designated site(s).
• Provide technical and non-technical advice to clinical and non-clinical staff.
• Develop maintenance policies and ensure compliance with HTM/BS guidelines.
• Define detailed PPMs and maintenance specifications using O&M, HTMs and statutory guidelines.

Education

BTec Level 4 HNC or equivalent in engineering

Completed recognised Apprenticeship with relevant experience

Specialist technical training in plant, infrastructure and building services

Knowledge of Estates service delivery and maintenance procedures

CAD (Computer Aided Design)

Tools

CAD

Job description

Main area Estates Officer Entry Level Mechanical Technician Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (on-call and overtime may be expected of these roles) Job ref 357-GR-216-26-QIA2486-E

Employer United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Grantham Hospital Town Grantham Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 21/09/2026 23:59

Maintenance Technician Band 5

NHS AfC: Band 5

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

· Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.

· Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.

· Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So,what is in it for you?

• Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

• Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
• Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
• Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
• Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
• Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
• NHS Pension:A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
• Bank working:The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there ismore.

• Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
• Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
• Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
• Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
• Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Job overview

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH) are seeking a highly motivated Estates Mechanically Bias Technician who will be based in the Estates department at Grantham Hospital. The post holder is required to play a proactive part within the Estates Technical team to meet Trust objectives in a safe, cost effective, efficient manner in compliance with legislation and good practice.

There is no better time to join the team at ULHT, we are developing our operational estates team in order to support the Trust on its continuous development plan, our aims and ambitions are set high and we want you to be part of the developing journey with us. Have you got the ambition to make your hospital a better place for the community? Have you got the passion about engineering? Are you wanting to learn new skills and become a true rounded engineer with skills in which some areas are only specialist in the Healthcare, if this sounds like a challenge you are looking for

We offer job security, stability, development, a strong team focused environment where you will feel a sense of belonging. Although, better than all of that, is the chance to really give something back to the NHS with the skills, knowledge, experience and attributes you have to help us achieve outstanding care personally delivered.

Main duties of the job

As an Maintenance Technician you will report directly to the Estates management team and provide effective technical support for Estates & Capital Services. You will be encouraged to be proactive in team working, you will be supported as a team member and you will encourage team working, by providing the varied skills that support the department’s philosophy and flexible working.

You will be expected to have a sound knowledge with the applicable skills in an engineering related discipline. Training and development will be available to ensure your skills become transferable and developed upon for your personal progression and support the Trust needs.

• To plan, organise operational maintenance for the estates maintenance team under the guidance of the Estates Officers.
• To be appointed as Authorised or Competent Person as required by the organisation.
• To support the delivery of the specific Estates Services across a designated site(s) that will contribute and support the Trust’s objectives.
• To provide and nurture a patient-centred environment via the provision of Estates Services whilst recognising their contribution to the overall patient experience.
• To provide both technical and non-technical advice to both clinical and non-clinical professionals.
• To support the delivery of technical policy and procedures and implementation of documentation to the maintenance team and ensure compliance is achieved in various specialist disciplines.

See Job Description for full details.

Working for our organisation

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What should you do next?

Have a look at the job description and if you like what you see. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. Your NHS needs you!!!

Person specification

Qualifications (Academic, Professional & Vocational)

• A good standard of education
• BTec Level 4 HNC or equivalent in an engineering discipline, or equivalent portfolio of technical built environment engineering services courses through recognised providers and associated work-based projects /work
• Completed recognised Apprenticeship with relevant experience gained over a number of years
• Specialist technical training in plant, infrastructure and building services.
• Additional Hospital Engineering related certified training such as AP training

Previous Experience (Nature & Level)

• A number of years within a maintenance environment demonstrating basic level of understanding of Estates delivery and maintenance
• Aware of Health & Safety issues
• Experienced in working in a demanding customer driven service.
• Experienced in working to deadlines.
• Demonstrable experience of making judgements on estates and maintenance issues taking into account legislation and H&S.
• Use of fine tools and equipment.
• Management of contractors and consultants with disciplinary team in Healthcare premises
• Experience of working in a large organisation
• Experienced in issuing permits to work

Evidence of Particular: - Knowledge - Skills - Aptitudes

• Knowledge of Estates service delivery, operational maintenance and procedures /processes
• Able to diagnose faults in complicated engineering and building plant and equipment
• Able to work safely and have a sound knowledge of Health and Safety legislation in the built environment
• Review maintenance policies and practices in light of regulatory changes.
• Knowledge of statutory maintenance and inspections for plant and building services.
• Ability to work at all levels from Management Executive to front line maintenance tradesman.
• Work co-operatively with colleagues.
• Ability to work with minimum of guidance.
• Good manual dexterity Logical and systematic approach to work tasks.
• Exchanges maintenance, technical project-related information with specialists, non-specialists; negotiates with contractors or suppliers.
• Computer literate with the current operating system, current office software and computer aided design (CAD).
• Logical and systematic approach to work tasks.
• Computer literate with the current operating system, current office software and computer aided design (CAD).
• Ability to define detailed PPM’s and maintenance specifications including using O&M’s, Statutory guidelines, HTM’s, BS’s, etc.
• Ability to scrutinise service reports.
• Ability to estimate work and services using published and internal cost data e.g., BCIS BMI, etc.
• Supervise engineering maintenance team, oversight of contractors
• Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework: • Patient Centred • Safety • Compassion • Respect and Excellence
• Be able to work within a pressured environment.
• Evidence of self-advancement.
• Able to act efficiently taking a ‘hands on’ role in an emergency.
• Imaginative outlook.
• Work on own initiative.
• Confident.
• Management of contractors and consultants with disciplinary team in Healthcare premises.
• Experience of working in a large organisation.
• Experienced in issuing permits to work.

Specific Requirements

• Good interpersonal skills.
• Versatile and flexible in approach.
• Physically fit.
• Capable of meeting manual handling criteria.
• Able to work at heights, adverse conditions i.e., Heat, dirt, and cramped conditions.
• Sympathetic when working in patient proximities i.e., working in operating theatres, wards and mortuaries.
• Imaginative outlook.
• Work on own initiative.
• Confident.

ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick "Member of the Armed Forces Community" if the below applies to you.

You are:

• A Veteran
• A Military Reserve
• Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces

All new employees will be subject to a charge for the DBS check that is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by ULTH and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a 3 month period.

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Please note, for applicants with previous NHS service: If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.