Estates Maintenance Assistant

As a Maintenance Assistant, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of the facilities at Southern Health 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 person. 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.

Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to combine all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services, with the plan to create a new larger, more integrated and accessible organisation.

The transformation will happen in stages; Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning across in May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent NHS Trust services is expected in late 2024, when our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, will be formed.

Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.