Posted Date
17/02/2025
Description
The Estates and Facilities Directorate is seeking to recruit a highly motivated maintenance assistant at the Freeman Hospital to assist with Planned preventative maintenance, minor works, and day to day reactive maintenance. The maintenance assistant programme is critical to achieving a suitable patient environment for all Wards and Departments to deliver the highest level of care.
• Interview date: Thursday 13 March 2025
• 37 hours 30 minutes /week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
The successful candidate will be accountable directly to the Building Supervisors and overall, to the Estates Building Officer. The post holder will be expected to perform a wide range of duties covering all aspects of maintenance applicable to the role.
You will be required to carry out necessary repair works. In conjunction with the Building Supervisor, you will liaise with clinical teams when carrying out work in patient areas to ensure patient safety and Infection Control is not compromised so good communication and organizational skills are paramount to being a success in this role. It is essential you have an understanding of other works in relation to their own discipline to provide a coherent service when carrying out both maintenance and minor work schemes.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle HospitalsandNewcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Principal Purpose/Dimension
• Work under the direction of a craftsperson while working alongside
o Carry out a range of individual and support duties including maintenance, clinical / general waste duties and respond to Estates emergencies.
o Assist with installation, repair and commissioning of equipment.
• Specific duties for site & plant room tidiness and safety
• Driving duties as required
• Carry out a range of maintenance activities on a variety of plant and equipment
• Domestic appliance repairs
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Mar 2025
Salary24,071.00 - 25,674.00 Annual