Estates Maintenance Assistant

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.

• 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.

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.