Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Estates Maintenance Assistant

The closing date is 02 November 2025

Job summary

As a Maintenance Assistant, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of the facilities at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare Foundation Trust. You will work alongside a team of experienced colleagues, carrying out a range of maintenance tasks to the highest standards.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated member of staff to provide a maintenance service, ensuring a warm, clean and secure environment for all site users. We are looking for someone that can be flexible and proactive, have good communication skills and an understanding of health and safety requirements. You will help to create the safe and attractive surroundings that enable us to give our service users and staff the quality, care and support they deserve. The role of Maintenance Assistant offers plenty of variety as you'll undertake a range of tasks to make sure our building and grounds are at their best all day, every day.

The successful candidate will be required to carry out a mix of planned preventative maintenance and reactive repair maintenance work as part of the Estates Maintenance team. You will carry out the non-technical statutory maintenance tasks across varying disciplines, light reactive repairs and light installation works, assisting multi-skilled technicians if required and assisting with the day-to-day operations where appropriate.

Main duties of the job

Carry out varied PPM maintenance tasks and cleaning duties on plant, equipment and services

Assist other trades staff with installation work or maintenance work and act as a safety man. This also involves use of hand tools and other equipment.

Carry out meter readings and surveys on oil, gas, electric and water mains services etc, completing logbooks and paperwork correctly and reporting any faults to the Supervisor/Chargehand.

Lead with any manual duties to assist the maintenance operations.

Repair/maintain physical assets in health service properties.

Adhere to Estates Departments Health & Safety Policy and adopt safe working procedures.

Work independently without direct supervision managing own work identifying any deficiencies in equipment and tools used and report them to the Supervisor.

Contribute to the provision of advice to department users of Estates Services, on the operation and maintenance of plant and equipment

Carry, when required, Trust mobile phones to facilitate immediate response on emergency calls.

Must be prepared to work a reasonable amount of overtime to undertake emergency repair work and planned maintenance work including bank holidays and weekends if required.

Carry out minor routine planned, corrective and breakdown maintenance tasks without direct supervision on building elements and fabric, including doors, furniture, fixtures and fittings.

To operate hand held computerised P.D.A's for work allocation/actions.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Date posted

17 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,937 to £26,598 a year based on full time hours

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

348-FME-9457

Job locations

Parklands Hospital

Aldermaston Road

Basingstoke

Hampshire

RG24 9RH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Be able to demonstrate previous professional experience in a trade or maintenance role, demonstrate a base level of knowledge of general maintenance and manual working with tools.
Driving licence.

Desirable

NVQ / Diploma in any construction trade, any recognised City & Guilds qualifications within the building / construction industry.

Experience

Essential

Ability to work as part of a team.
Ability to undertake multi-skilled / multi discipline tasks that are of a non-technical nature, unless working within bias trade.
Continuous ongoing assessment and on-the-job training to maintain competence with updating electrical regulations.
A flexible approach, reliable nature and a conscientious attitude to work.
Demonstrate the ability to understand and follow detailed technical instructions.
Knowledge of Health & Safety.
Organisation of own workload.
Able to communicate concisely and effectively both orally and in written form with staff at all levels.
Able to use a computer

Desirable

Knowledge obtained ideally in a healthcare environment, but not essential.
Previous experience working with a public sector employer such as a school or a local council.
Previous appropriate working experience or training in general engineering or Building Industry.
Demonstrate a proactive approach to problem solving.

Additional Criteria

Essential

Maintain a healthy, safe, and secure working environment.

Desirable

previous experience

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Be able to demonstrate previous professional experience in a trade or maintenance role, demonstrate a base level of knowledge of general maintenance and manual working with tools.
Driving licence.

Desirable

NVQ / Diploma in any construction trade, any recognised City & Guilds qualifications within the building / construction industry.

Experience

Essential

Ability to work as part of a team.
Ability to undertake multi-skilled / multi discipline tasks that are of a non-technical nature, unless working within bias trade.
Continuous ongoing assessment and on-the-job training to maintain competence with updating electrical regulations.
A flexible approach, reliable nature and a conscientious attitude to work.
Demonstrate the ability to understand and follow detailed technical instructions.
Knowledge of Health & Safety.
Organisation of own workload.
Able to communicate concisely and effectively both orally and in written form with staff at all levels.
Able to use a computer

Desirable

Knowledge obtained ideally in a healthcare environment, but not essential.
Previous experience working with a public sector employer such as a school or a local council.
Previous appropriate working experience or training in general engineering or Building Industry.
Demonstrate a proactive approach to problem solving.

Additional Criteria

Essential

Maintain a healthy, safe, and secure working environment.

Desirable

previous 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.

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Parklands Hospital

Aldermaston Road

Basingstoke

Hampshire

RG24 9RH

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Parklands Hospital

Aldermaston Road

Basingstoke

Hampshire

RG24 9RH

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)