Maintenance Operative – NHS Building Services

Overview

The key function is to support NHS Property Services in delivering building services maintenance and repairs across the NHS to ensure buildings are maintained to the highest standards and to provide a safe and secure environment for visitors, customers, and employees.

• Ensure compliance in line with all processes, procedures and policies that meet organisational standards/requirements including but not limited to our Health & Safety Policy, HTMs (Health Technical Memoranda) and SFG
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• Undertake routine planned and reactive maintenance service as instructed by the Team Leader, ensuring operational standards are maintained at all times.
• Support the work that is included in minor work, including routine repairs or minor works such as joinery, painting and decoration, general building works, ground works or general plumbing.
• Maintain effective site log books at all NHS premises, ensuring that they are completed in a timely and accurate manner.
• Support the Projects/Construction team and Team Leader in delivering minor capital works to NHS premises.
• Complete suitable risk assessments prior to undertaking works and undertake works as per instructions within any relevant permit or work plan.
• Understand the principles of fire risk assessment and relevant precautions within the workplace.

NHS Property Services Ltd is one of the largest property owners in the UK, with a £3 billion asset portfolio, some 4,000 properties, 5,300 employees and an annual income of over £700 million. Established in April 2013, the company is a limited company but also part of the wider NHS family. Having inherited responsibility for the facilities and property management functions previously managed by NHS primary care trusts and strategic health authorities, we own and run properties that range from listed buildings and former workhouses through to award‑winning, state-of-the‑art integrated health campuses.

Our aim is to deliver a fit for purpose estate in partnership with NHS organisations, generating cost efficiencies that will benefit our tenants, patients and the wider health economy.