Estates Maintenance Operative

Job summary

The successful candidate will support the Estates and Facilities team by carrying out a wide range of maintenance, grounds, and compliance duties across all Lancaster Medical Practice sites. This includes planned and reactive works, general handyman repairs, routine gardening tasks, and essential statutory compliance checks.

The role ensures that buildings, grounds, and external areas remain safe, well-maintained and compliant with relevant regulations. The post holder will work in line with all LMP policies, procedures, Health & Safety and CQC requirements.

Main duties of the job

• Carry out repairs to fixtures, fittings, doors, locks, hinges and internal fabric.
• Complete decoration work including painting, filling and touch-ups.
• Undertake plumbing tasks such as unblocking sinks, replacing tab washers and resolving small leaks.
• Replace consumables such as light bulbs, batteries, ceiling tiles and signage.
• Assist with internal moves, furniture assembly and safe storage.
• Support site-based staff by responding to reactive maintenance issues in a timely and professional manner.
• Undertake minor repairs before escalating more complex tasks to contractors.
• Complete legionella control tasks including weekly flushing, temperature monitoring and accurate record keeping.
• Conduct routine fire safety checks including monthly manual call point tests and emergency lighting checks.
• Assist with scheduled fire evacuation drills across all sites.
• Maintain compliance logs and submit finding to the Estates & Facilities Manager.
• Carry out planned and reactive grounds maintenance at all LMP sites.
• Maintain gardens, landscaped areas and car parks to a high standard throughout the year.
• Strim, mow, prune and carry out seasonal planting and watering.
• Operate and maintain grounds machinery including mowers, blowers and sweepers.
• Reinstate any areas damaged by weather or general use.
• Clear light wells, gullies and drains of leaves and waste.

About us

Lancaster Medical Practice is a large, at-scale, GP provider delivering General Medical Services to around 68,000 patients in Lancaster and surrounding villages. Formed in April 2017 from our successful, legacy practices, Lancaster Medical Practice has continued to evolve to become the strong, high performing Practice it is today, receiving a rating of Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission in August 2018.

We deliver our services from seven locations throughout the city of Lancaster and its surrounding area and are continuing to develop ourselves to improve what we do for our patients, staff and the local community. We are a progressive, modern organisation with patient-centred General Practice at our core. When joining #teamlmp you are joining an organisation with a wide variety of clinical and non-clinical roles but who all work together to provide the best care we can to our patients.