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Maintenance
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NHS AfC: Band 3
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37.5 awr yr wythnos
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179-8353942-F
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West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
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West Suffolk Hospital
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Bury St Edmunds
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£25,760 - £27,476 per annum
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22/10/2026 23:59

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Estates Specialist Maintenance Assistant

NHS AfC: Band 3

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Join our Estates team and help create a safe, reliable and welcoming environment where patients, staff and visitors can feel confident.

We’re looking for a skilled and motivated Estates Maintenance professional to join our team. This is a hands-on role where your practical expertise, problem-solving skills and attention to detail will make a real difference every day.

Working across Trust facilities, you’ll carry out a varied range of routine and moderately complex maintenance activities, including fault finding and diagnosis, repairs and planned preventative maintenance. Working alongside and under the guidance of our Estates Team Leaders and Officers, you’ll help keep our buildings, systems and equipment operating safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

This is more than just a maintenance role. The work you do directly supports the delivery of excellent patient care. By keeping our facilities safe, functional and well maintained, you’ll play an essential part in creating an environment where our clinical teams can focus on what matters most.

Sponsorship for Skilled Worker Visa not Available 
Please note that a Certificate of Sponsorship is not available for this position as it does not meet one or more of the required criteria. For more information on eligible roles please visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

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What you’ll be doing

  • Carrying out planned, reactive and preventative maintenance across Trust facilities.
  • Diagnosing faults and completing repairs to a high standard.
  • Identifying potential risks and taking proactive action to prevent failures, injuries or damage.
  • Working safely and following Trust policies, safe systems of work, statutory requirements and industry best practice.
  • Supporting the efficient operation and upkeep of buildings, equipment and essential systems.
  • Working collaboratively with colleagues across the Estates team to deliver a responsive and high-quality service.
  • Maintaining a strong focus on safety, quality and the needs of our patients, staff and visitors

If you’re someone who enjoys solving problems, takes pride in doing a job well and wants to see the real impact of your work, this could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.

You’ll become part of a supportive, skilled and dedicated Estates team, where your contribution is valued and every day brings a new challenge.

 

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

 

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

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Please see the full job description and person specification attached for more details on the job role. 

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Education & Qualification

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • GCSE English and Maths or equivalent
  • NVQ / Level 2 in a mechanical, electrical engineering or building discipline
Meini prawf dymunol
  • BAFE certified fire equipment maintenance technician
  • Water Quality Management certified

Experience & Knowledge

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Previous experience within a maintenance role
  • Able to work independently or as part of a team
  • To have a sound knowledge and understanding of other building trades
Meini prawf dymunol
  • Experience of working in an Acute Hospital Environment

Skills & Abilities

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Good organisational skills and the ability to plan effectively and efficiently
  • Ability to address and develop solutions to problems
  • Strong communication skills for effective working relationships throughout the organisation
  • Good IT skills
  • Ability to follow written instructions and procedures
  • High standard of workmanship and completion on all jobs undertaken
  • Disciplined approach to schedules and tasks.

Persona qualities

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Ability to travel to other sites as and when required
  • Ability to cope with demanding and stressful scenarios
  • Flexible approach to working hours/duties
  • Ability to work at height using access from ladders/scaffold
  • Ability to work in confined spaces
  • Ability and willingness to undertake Emergency Situations repairs

Bathodynnau ardystio / achredu cyflogwyr

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardDisability confident employerArmed Forces Covenant

Gofynion ymgeisio

Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.

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Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a high number of applications.

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Ady Powell
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Estates Operations Maintenance Manager
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07977 396556
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