Maintenance Technician
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 12/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Technician to join the Estates department at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The role involves providing technical support for reactive and planned specialist maintenance work on hospital plant and equipment, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements. The successful candidate will be highly motivated, able to prioritise workloads, and identify improvements to operational systems. They will work on a full-time, permanent basis.
Essential criteria
- Mechanical / Electrical apprenticeship
Desirable criteria
- H.N.C. or equivalent in a relevant discipline
- Knowledge & Experience
- Relevant experience in a maintenance / building services environment
- Logical fault-finding methodology
- Ability to react to emergencies
- Computer Literate
- Good Telephone Manner
- Physically fit, able to climb vertical ladders
- Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
- Ability to adapt a reasonable attitude to the duties of the post
- Excellent analytical skills
- Good time keeping
- Willingness to upgrade skills and training
- Ability to communicate and present a professional attitude when under pressure
- Other
- Flexibility
- Able to travel across various site with own car / assisted driver
- Mechanical / Electrical apprenticeship
- H.N.C. or equivalent in a relevant discipline
- Knowledge & Experience
- Relevant experience in a maintenance / building services environment
- Logical fault-finding methodology
- Ability to react to emergencies
- Computer Literate
- Good Telephone Manner
- Physically fit, able to climb vertical ladders
- Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
- Ability to adapt a reasonable attitude to the duties of the post
- Excellent analytical skills
- Good time keeping
- Willingness to upgrade skills and training
- Ability to communicate and present a professional attitude when under pressure
- Other
- Flexibility
- Able to travel across various site with own car / assisted driver
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Maintenance Technician to join our team on a full time, permanent basis
The Estates department at both Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals has a group of highly skilled electrical / mechanical technicians, plumbing engineers, creative building craft persons, and dedicated support staff.
We are looking for a highly motivated and professional individual who has the ability to prioritise workloads and identify improvements to operational systems and management processed in order to increase departmental efficiencies.
The successful candidate will provide technical support services for the reactive/planned specialist maintenance work on a variety of hospital plant and equipment to ensure compliance with all statutory requirements, codes of practice, guidance notes and trust procedures, to a high standard.
Interview Date - To Be Confirmed
Previous Applicants Need Not Apply
Main duties of the job
- Applicants should have served a 4-year recognised and registered craft apprenticeship and will have gained an NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification in Electrical Engineering and possess equivalent previous hospital maintenance experience.
- The post holder would be expected to carry out maintenance duties in an efficient and effective manner to support the successful delivery of a customer focused estate maintena
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