Estates Maintenance Assistant

Job summary

Are you hands-on, practical, and passionate about keeping buildings running smoothly? Join our friendly and hardworking Estates team at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust as a Maintenance Assistant.

This is your opportunity to make a real difference in patient care--behind the scenes! You'll play a vital role in maintaining the safety and functionality of our NHS sites, ensuring they remain comfortable and operational for both patients and staff. Whether you're experienced in building maintenance or looking to grow your skills in a supportive environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Our sites span across Sussex, and we offer flexibility in your base location--this role can be based at one of several sites within the county.

Main duties of the job

As a Maintenance Assistant, you'll support the day-to-day upkeep of our buildings, covering basic electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and general fabric maintenance tasks across various healthcare sites. Your responsibilities will include:

• Responding to maintenance requests and carrying out routine repairs.

• Supporting planned preventative maintenance schedules.

• Assisting skilled trades staff where needed.

• Ensuring all work is completed safely and in line with Trust policies.

This is a great opportunity to work in a varied and active role, develop your skills, and be part of a supportive team.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?o Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.