Community Maintenance Staff - Mechanical
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing safe and effective mechanical and general maintenance services across 13 community sites and the acute hospital site. Responsibilities include carrying out repairs, maintenance, and installations of plant, equipment, systems, and building structures. The post holder will perform Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), fault finding, emergency response, and defect correction. The job requires excellent communication skills and the ability to work with diverse engineering systems.
Essential criteria
- NVQ 3, completed recognised apprenticeship in relevant base trade or relevant experience within trade specialism
Desirable criteria
- Health and Safety Qualifications or modules of technical qualifications ( IOSH One Day Working Safely. CSCS Gold Card )
- Previous AP or CP qualification in HTM's
- Ability to interpret & work from drawings and specifications.
- Demonstrate ability to interpret & fault find on a diverse range of complex mechanical systems and installations.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with others, mainly verbal & in writing.
- Demonstrate competence in dealing with difficult and /or stressful circumstances.
- Ability to instruct other in relation to their designated task/work.
- Ability to work without supervision
- Awareness of limits of own knowledge and ability/willingness to seek guidance and support
- A willingness to work flexibly and in a versatile manner to cover maintenance on a wide variety of plant and equipment.
- Ability to works on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Ability to prioritise own work
- A willingness to demonstrate reliability & flexibility in their contribution to service delivery in the face of changing service demands
- Willing to undertake training relevant to the post.
- Willing to engage in new innovative working practices to improve the service.
- A commitment to own continuous personal development
- Basic IT
- Demonstrate knowledge of other crafts
- Background of mechanical work in the building industry / maintenance work
- A clear understanding of health and safety procedures in theory and practical application
- Relevant experience of NHS hospital environment
- Installation and/or maintenance experience in an industrial or domestic or commercial setting
- Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental.
- Motivated to be genuinely kind and caring.
- Helps and co-operates with colleagues
- Pro-active and takes responsibility
- Willing to learn, open to change
- Motivated to make a difference in whatever way they can
- Takes pride in themselves, their appearance, their role and where they work
- Actively supports the Trust's values
- NVQ 3, completed recognised apprenticeship in relevant base trade or relevant experience within trade specialism
- Health and Safety Qualifications or modules of technical qualifications ( IOSH One Day Working Safely. CSCS Gold Card )
- Previous AP or CP qualification in HTM's
- Ability to interpret & work from drawings and specifications.
- Demonstrate ability to interpret & fault find on a diverse range of complex mechanical systems and installations.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with others, mainly verbal & in writing.
- Demonstrate competence in dealing with difficult and /or stressful circumstances.
- Ability to instruct other in relation to their designated task/work.
- Ability to work without supervision
- Awareness of limits of own knowledge and ability/willingness to seek guidance and support
- A willingness to work flexibly and in a versatile manner to cover maintenance on a wide variety of plant and equipment.
- Ability to works on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Ability to prioritise own work
- A willingness to demonstrate reliability & flexibility in their contribution to service delivery in the face of changing service demands
- Willing to undertake training relevant to the post.
- Willing to engage in new innovative working practices to improve the service.
- A commitment to own continuous personal development
- Basic IT
- Demonstrate knowledge of other crafts
- Background of mechanical work in the building industry / maintenance work
- A clear understanding of health and safety procedures in theory and practical application
- Relevant experience of NHS hospital environment
- Installation and/or maintenance experience in an industrial or domestic or commercial setting
- Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental.
- Motivated to be genuinely kind and caring.
- Helps and co-operates with colleagues
- Pro-active and takes responsibility
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Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Community Maintenance Staff - Mechanical
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
The role will support the delivery of a safe and effective mechanical and general maintenance service across 13 community sites, and at the acute hospital site when required.
You will carry out the repair, maintenance or installation of all plant, equipment, systems and building structure/fabric associated with all Trust properties.
This will consist of Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), testing and calibration, fault finding, emergency response, defect correction and New works.
Main duties of the job
Required to have excellent communication skills, ensuring good working relationships are maintained with Estates Department staff at all levels and other staff disciplines internal and external to the department in the course of carrying out their duties. Must possess training skills to undertake the training and/or instruction and evaluation of users of job specific systems and equipment.Be capable of explaining operational and technical issues to estates staff and trainees, clinical/nursing staff, departmental managers and patients in respect of ward and department building and engineering systems and equipment.To have completed a recognised trade apprenticeship and hold a BTEC HNC/diploma in Engineering or equivalent City and Guilds
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