Maintenance Assistant

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

This is a Handyman role to perform decorating and basic carpentry duties as the main job criteria. This is an excellent opportunity to use and gain building services experience in helping to provide an improved environment for the delivery of clinical care.

Our focus is on improving the Trust facilities and environment. You will be part of a team that provide an effective and efficient service to the engineering/building services ,equipment and the buildings.

You will need to have experience of working in an building maintenance environment .You will have good customer care skills, and be able to work on your own initiative. A flexible approach is required, as often you may be required to work at weekend and evenings. ( This is not a post for electrical/mechanical)

The vacancy is based Wexham Park Hospital, SL2 4HL.

Main duties of the job

Carry out reactive maintenance and checks of equipment, plantrooms and building fabric.

Assist maintenance technicians with responsibilities where required.

Monitor, clean and maintain general housekeeping and safe working environment of working areas.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Date posted

28 June 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,008 to £25,553 a year per annum including HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

151-LC195-A

Job locations

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL

Job description

Job responsibilities

KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Painting and Decorating
Basic carpentry/Handyman skills
Maintenance checks of plantrooms
Assisting technicians with duties as required
General housekeeping of working areas, plantrooms, workshops, stores.
Monitor the safe working environment of plantrooms
Complete job dockets in timely manner
Assist team with KPI targets, number of jobs per day
Promote health and safety for yourself and others
Flexible in approach to overtime and working hours
Promote, follow and utilise the trust values
Participate in the trust appraisal system
To ensure an effective and responsible approach to customer care

Job description

Job responsibilities

KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Painting and Decorating
Basic carpentry/Handyman skills
Maintenance checks of plantrooms
Assisting technicians with duties as required
General housekeeping of working areas, plantrooms, workshops, stores.
Monitor the safe working environment of plantrooms
Complete job dockets in timely manner
Assist team with KPI targets, number of jobs per day
Promote health and safety for yourself and others
Flexible in approach to overtime and working hours
Promote, follow and utilise the trust values
Participate in the trust appraisal system
To ensure an effective and responsible approach to customer care

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Mantenance general

Desirable

NVQ level 2

Specialist knowledge

Essential

General knowleage of building servies
Knowledge of health and safety

Desirable

NHS experience

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Mantenance general

Desirable

NVQ level 2

Specialist knowledge

Essential

General knowleage of building servies
Knowledge of health and safety

Desirable

NHS experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.