Job summary
- Main area
- Maintenance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 179-7907160-F
- Employer
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Newmarket Community Hospital
- Town
- Newmarket
- Salary
- £25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Maintenance Assistant - Newmarket and the Community
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
Make a Difference Behind the Scenes in Healthcare
Join West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust as a Maintenance Assistant and help keep our healthcare sites safe, efficient, and welcoming. Based mainly at Newmarket Hospital, with travel to community sites, this varied role supports patient care and staff wellbeing every day.
About the Role
This hands-on role offers a wide range of tasks, from general repairs and basic fault finding to gardening and decorating. You’ll help keep buildings compliant, functional, and comfortable, working closely with the Estates team in a supportive environment.
What We’re Looking For
A reliable, proactive individual with a practical approach and willingness to learn. You’ll be adaptable, able to work independently or in a team, and committed to high standards.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out routine maintenance, minor repairs, and basic fault finding
- Support planned preventative maintenance
- Assist with gardening, decorating, and general upkeep
- Help maintain plant equipment (training provided)
- Carry out basic testing and monitoring tasks
- Support tradespeople with minor works
- Respond to maintenance issues and emergencies
- Follow safety and compliance standard
What We Offer
- Permanent role in a supportive NHS Trust
- Full training and development opportunities
- Friendly team environment
- Varied work across multiple sites
- Weekend rota opportunities
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?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification attached for more details on the job role.
Person specification
Education & Qualification
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 2 in a mechanical or electrical engineering discipline
- Basic skills in literacy and numeracy
Desirable criteria
- NVQ level 3 in a mechanical or electrical engineering discipline
- BAFE certified Fire Equipment Maintenance qualification
- Water Quality Management certified
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working in an engineering and/or building maintenance role
- Maintenance background and skills to carry out minor mechanical / electrical and building repairs
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in an acute hospital environment
- Grounds knowledge/ experience
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Good organisational skills and ability to address and develop solutions to problems
- Adaptable to change
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Organised approach to work
- Able to follow written instructions and procedures and report where these need to be adapted and updated
- Good IT skills
- High standard of workmanship and completion on all works undertaken
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to cope with demanding and stressful scenarios
- Strong communication skills for effective working relationships throughout the organisation
- An effective team player
- Flexible approach to working hours / duties
- Strong attention to detail
- Customer focused
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Aaron Bibby
- Job title
- Senior Team Leader - Newmarket and Community
- Email address
- [email protected]
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