Estates Maintenance Painter and Decorator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves delivering high-quality painting and decorating services across the Trust's estate, ensuring work meets trade standards and health and safety regulations. Responsibilities include planning and undertaking decorating works from survey to completion, managing materials, and liaising with staff to minimise disruption. The post holder will also perform planned preventative maintenance, respond to reactive requests, manage stock, and supervise contractors. Duties may extend to general building maintenance activities.
Essential criteria
- City and Guilds Painting and Decorating or NVQ 2 Equivalent or Equivalent experience.
- Skills & Abilities
- Ability to record detailed and accurate repairs information relating to repair inspections or completed repair jobs.
- Able to carry out a repair job or improvement task that involves physical strength, stamina and standing, kneeling or crouching.
- Experience of working within a customer-focused repairs and maintenance service.
- Experience of working with a range of portable tools, small plant, ladders and equipment to enable duties of the job to be carried out.
- Good understanding of the maintenance of buildings services.
- Good knowledge of Health and Safety issues.
- Trust Values, Equal Opportunities and Other Requirements
- Understanding and demonstration of the Trust Values.
- Education
- City and Guilds Painting and Decorating or NVQ 2 Equivalent or Equivalent experience.
- Skills & Abilities
- Ability to record detailed and accurate repairs information relating to repair inspections or completed repair jobs.
- Able to carry out a repair job or improvement task that involves physical strength, stamina and standing, kneeling or crouching.
- Experience of working within a customer-focused repairs and maintenance service.
- Experience of working with a range of portable tools, small plant, ladders and equipment to enable duties of the job to be carried out.
- Good understanding of the maintenance of buildings services.
- Good knowledge of Health and Safety issues.
- Trust Values, Equal Opportunities and Other Requirements
- Understanding and demonstration of the Trust Values.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £34,186 – £37,389 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Estates Maintenance Painter and Decorator
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
You'll be responsible for delivering high-quality painting and decorating services across the Trust's estate, both internally and externally, ensuring work is completed to recognised trade standards and in compliance with health and safety regulations.
The role involves planning and undertaking decorating works from initial survey through to completion, including measuring, estimating, ordering materials, preparing work areas, carrying out repairs, and reinstating fixtures and fittings. The post holder liaises closely with clinical and non-clinical staff to minimise disruption and ensure customer requirements are met.
Key responsibilities include undertaking planned preventative maintenance (PPM), responding to reactive maintenance requests, carrying out inspections, managing stock levels, supervising contractors, and updating work records using the Trust's electronic systems and PDA devices.
The post holder is expected to work safely at all times, complying with relevant legislation, including Health and Safety, COSHH, PUWER, Working at Height, and other statutory requirements. Duties may also extend to general building maintenance activities such as flooring, tiling, glazing, roofing repairs, plastering, and scaffold erection.
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