Maintenance Assistant

Are you an experienced Maintenance Assistant looking for your next rewarding challenge? If you share our values and take pride in creating safe, welcoming environments, we'd love to hear from you.

Joining our friendly Estates team, you will support the delivery of an efficient estates maintenance service to St Margaret's Hospice, based in Taunton.

The Maintenance Assistant plays a key role in delivering front-line maintenance services, responding to defects and breakdowns, and carrying out planned preventative maintenance across our hospice sites.

• Salary:£25,472 per annum
• Hours:37per week
• Working Pattern:Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm and Friday 9am to 4:30pm
• Contract:Permanent, Full time

• Good all-around knowledge and experience of basic maintenance tasks
• Skills to enable them to undertake fault finding and general maintenance on all aspects of the fabric of the building and equipment
• Opportunity to undertake on-the-job training as part of a formal training plan to ensure safe work systems are maintained at all times, in compliance with health and safety regulations.
• A full driving licence and access to a vehicle are required for local travel to collect materials, with mileage expenses reimbursed.

• An experienced maintenance assistant to join our team who is enthusiastic and eager to provide a comfortable hospice environment for our patients and staff.
• Able to encourage and motivate our maintenance volunteers as well assupport the Maintenance Supervisor to deliver an effective operational maintenance service.

At St Margaret's Hospice, our values guide everything we do. We are:

• Compassionate:Kindness and care for everyone, every day
• Collaborative:One team, working together for one goal
• Ambitious:Striving for better, now and into the future.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

If you need adjustments during recruitment, please contact recruitment

You won't just be joining a fantastic team
-you'll become part of a welcoming, community-minded charity making a real difference every day.

We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment alongside a range of benefits including:

• 33 days including bank holidays, rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave

• NHS pension continuation where applicable*
• 6% employer / 5% employee contribution for non-NHS staff

• Life assurance cover (2x salary)
• Health Cash Plans
• Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 GP access, counselling, wellbeing support, and legal/financial advice
• Blue Light Discount Card
• Enhanced maternity leave*
• Excellent learning and development opportunities
• Free on-site parking in Yeovil and Taunton
• Opportunities to volunteer and support fundraising initiatives

* Eligibility criteria applies

Closing date:9th September 2026

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visasponsorshipat this time.

St Margaret's Hospice are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of those who use our services.

As part of our safer recruitment processes, all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks relevant to the role. These may include verification of identity, right to work, references, DBS, and other regulatory, fraud prevention, and compliance checks.

The Disclosure and Barring Service offers a confidential checking service for transgender applicants. This route gives applicants the choice not to have any gender or name information disclosed on their DBS certificate and is available for all levels of DBS check.