Job Overview
Maintenance Assistant
Band 3
Permanent
37.5 Hours per week
We need a maintenance assistant to join our team to help keep our hospital environment safe, operational by supporting the health and wellbeing of our patients, staff and visitors – day in day out, it's a blend of planned maintenance coupled with emergency repairs and everything in between.
Main duties of the job
Responsibilities
As an Estates Maintenance Worker, you'll play a vital role in ensuring our hospitals remain safe, functional, and comfortable for patients, staff, and visitors. Your responsibilities will include:
Planned Maintenance: Executing a range of planned maintenance tasks to keep our buildings and external environments safe and in good order.
Safety First: Prioritising safety by conducting regular inspections and addressing potential hazards to create a secure environment.
Exceptional Service: Delivering outstanding customer service by responding promptly to maintenance requests and collaborating effectively with colleagues.
Flexible Support: Adapting to changing priorities and working flexibly to support our clinical teams and patient care.
Main duties of the job
To undertake, without supervision a variety of tasks which would include:-
* External grounds inspections
* Repair and replacement external paviours and kerbs
* Casting of concrete slabs
* General site labouring
* Dismantling and installation of hospital equipment and street furniture.
* Road repairs
* General building repairs
* Patch plastering
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
As an Estates Maintenance Worker, you'll play a vital role in ensuring our hospitals remain safe, functional, and comfortable for patients, staff, and visitors. Your responsibilities will include:
Planned Maintenance: Executing a range of planned maintenance tasks to keep our buildings and external environments safe and in good order.
Safety First: Prioritising safety by conducting regular inspections and addressing potential hazards to create a secure environment.
Exceptional Service: Delivering outstanding customer service by responding promptly to maintenance requests and collaborating effectively with colleagues.
Flexible Support: Adapting to changing priorities and working flexibly to support our clinical teams and patient care.
Main duties of the job
To undertake, without supervision a variety of tasks which would include:-
* External grounds inspections
* Repair and replacement external paviours and kerbs
* Casting of concrete slabs
* General site labouring
* Dismantling and installation of hospital equipment and street furniture.
* Road repairs
* General building repairs
* Patch plastering
Person specification
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
* Proven history of working within an Engineering / Building environment.
* Good hand skills working with fine tools.
* Excellent Communication Skills: both written & verbal
* Experience and competence to carry out Builders general tasks
Desirable criteria
* Experience and sound knowledge of plastering
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Educated to City and Guilds Level
* NVQ Training in an Engineering / Building Discipline
Other
Essential criteria
* Proactive and capable of working independently with minimal supervision.
* Team player.
* Demonstrates commitment to the job.
* Able to manage conflicting demands and plan work as appropriate.