Maintenance Assistant - Band 3

NHS; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospital in Boston is seeking an Estates Maintenance Assistant to support maintenance operations across various facilities. The role involves performing repairs, maintenance, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications and experience in a similar environment, demonstrating strong teamwork and communication skills.

Qualifications

• City and Guilds Qualification, NVQ2, or equivalent in engineering.
• Extensive experience in estates stores management.
• Experience in maintaining buildings and mechanical systems.

Responsibilities

• Conduct general reactive and planned maintenance.
• Test and operate standby generator plant.
• Perform basic plumbing and electrical repairs.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Problem Solving

Physical Fitness

Initiative

Education

City and Guilds Qualification, NVQ2, or equivalent

Additional certified training in hospital engineering

Job description

An Estates Maintenance Assistant plays a key role in the Estates Engineering Maintenance Department and the Trust overall. The individual will support the Estates maintenance team in delivering statutory, planned, and reactive maintenance to ensure work is carried out in a clean, safe, cost-effective, efficient manner, and compliant with legislation, Health Technical Memorandums (HTM), and good practice.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will undertake works related to fault finding, diagnostics, commissioning, planned maintenance, and repairs to various engineering plant and equipment, grounds & gardens across the Trust properties, including but not limited to:

• General reactive and planned maintenance internally and externally
• Testing and operation of Standby Generator Plant
• Basic lighting, sockets, and small power circuit repairs
• Emergency lighting testing and checks
• Passenger lift entrapment release
• Basic repairs and checks of nurse call and alarm systems
• Basic repairs and maintenance of ventilation systems
• Basic plumbing repairs and maintenance
• Unblocking foul and surface water drainage systems
• Grounds and gardens maintenance including litter picking, snow clearing, gritting, grass and hedge cutting, tree maintenance, road sweeping, bin emptying, signage repairs, line marking, and painting
• General building fabric maintenance such as painting, decorating, window repairs, flooring, and joinery repairs
• Any other activities appropriate to skill and competency level
• Assisting housekeeping teams with their duties, such as removing vent grills for cleaning
• General maintenance of beds and wheelchairs

About us

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city hospital, now with a medical school, providing all major specialties and a 24-hour emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, demonstrating a significant teaching commitment. It is now known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital, located in beautiful countryside, serves the South Lincolnshire communities with major specialties and a 24-hour emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves Grantham and surrounding areas, providing ambulatory paediatric and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and ULHT operate under a group arrangement to improve patient care across Lincolnshire, maintaining their separate legal identities but working under a unified leadership.

The group is called Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• City and Guilds Qualification, NVQ2, or equivalent in an engineering or materials management discipline
• Additional certified training in hospital engineering
• Extensive experience in estates stores management in a similar organization

Previous Experience

• Experience in maintaining buildings, mechanical and electrical plant/services in a similar environment
• Experience in hospital maintenance, including air conditioning, refrigeration, fire alarms, electrical, and mechanical systems

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to demonstrate key values and behaviors aligned with the Trust framework
• Good understanding of regulations and safety procedures
• Knowledge of health and safety legislation in the built environment
• Cooperative teamwork skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance
• Effective communication with specialists and contractors
• Logical, systematic approach to tasks
• Ability to work under pressure
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Hands-on emergency response capability
• Imaginative outlook
• Initiative and confidence
• Experience managing contractors
• Experience working in large organizations
• Knowledge of safe systems of work and permits to work

Specific Requirements

• Good interpersonal skills
• Versatility and flexibility
• Physical fitness and manual handling capability
• Able to work at heights and in adverse conditions
• Respectful of patient proximities
• Willingness to travel across sites
• Commitment to working outside normal hours
• Participation in the Estates On-Call Rota
• Full driving license and access to own vehicle

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This role requires a DBS check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, to assess any criminal convictions.