Job overview

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.

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Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

#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?