Maintenance Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 18/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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“Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
The Maintenance Assistant will be part of the maintenance team, providing reactive, planned, and emergency maintenance services. This role involves carrying out a wide range of tasks efficiently and safely across various GMMH sites. The successful candidate will use an electronic medium for task notification and support location managers in maintaining service standards.
Essential criteria
- Basic Maths and English
- Experince in working in a Hospital enviroment
- Multi Trade knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Good Maths and English
- Experience in working in an Mental Health Enviroment
- Building Trade Knowledge / Experience
- Multi Trade knowledge
- experience with Hospital Maintenance
- Communications
- Able to communicate
- Good Communicator
- Team Work
- Able to work within a team
- Willing to Join the on-call rota
- Able to work on own initiative
- Basic Maths and English
- Experince in working in a Hospital enviroment
- Multi Trade knowledge
- Good Maths and English
- Experience in working in an Mental Health Enviroment
- Building Trade Knowledge / Experience
- Multi Trade knowledge
- experience with Hospital Maintenance
- Communications
- Able to communicate
- Good Communicator
- Team Work
- Able to work within a team
- Willing to Join the on-call rota
- Able to work on own initiative
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Maintenance Assistant
The closing date is 18 September 2026
Job summary
To work within the maintenance team providing reactive, planned and emergency maintenance using skills in carrying out a wide and varied spectrum of tasks efficiently, to the required quality standard and within your own competence and safety limits.
Please note - This role is not eligible for sponsorship unless you meet criteria by temporary exemption from current changes to immigration rules put in force on 22/07/2025. Separate provisions are applied to workers who have been sponsored and held continuously Skilled Worker visa since prior to 04/04/2024.
Main duties of the job
- The position of maintenance assistant will be based at the Prestwich site with a percentage of the time spent supporting GMMH buildings on the site and locations within Manchester, Bolton, Cumbria, Salford and Trafford. This may change depending on the needs of the service.
- Work will be notified via an electronic medium iPad or iPhone and the successful candidate will plan their daily tasks throughout**** the Trust's estate.
- Providing a proactive and flexible multi skilled planned, reactive and emergency maintenance service at the various locations as part of the Estates Team. Supporting the location managers in the day to day provision of a maintenan
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