Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 275-0825MAE
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham, Kent
- Salary
- £24,465 Per Annum/Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 10/09/2025
Employer heading

Maintenance Assistant - Estates
Band 2
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.
Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Job overview
Maintenance Assistant - Estates
Division: Estates & Facilities
Band: 2
Salary: £24,465 Per Annum/Pro Rata
Interview Date: 10-Sept-2025
We are recruiting for a Estates Maintenance Assistant who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an enthusiastic individual to join our busy maintenance team to undertake a range of maintenance tasks and to assist our maintenance technicians to carry out their day to day functions.
This role provides an opportunity to gain experience and receive training in range of maintenance activities with the potential to develop further within the organisation
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy –Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B – Bold
E – Every person counts
S – Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To assist with Estates maintenance activities, which may be demanding or non-routine.
To be able to carry out minor works and routine planned maintenance activities, as directed by the Estates Management Team.
Ensure compliance with Trust safety standards, policies and procedures, while taking all safety measures to prevent danger, avoid injury and prevent damage to equipment.
Exchange routine information to inform colleagues, staff, patients and contractors.
Possible travel between Trust sites.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ2 or City & Guilds in an engineering discipline – or an equivalent level of experience.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the maintenance procedures relating to the complex and specialised engineering services, systems, plant and equipment within a hospital Trust – both Mechanical and Electrical.
- Working knowledge of Health & Safety regulations.
- Recognition and understanding of statutory requirements relating to pressure systems.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing a diverse day-to-day workload.
- Proven experience of working in an equivalent role.
- Experience of carrying out unsupervised building fabric maintenance and minor repair work.
- Experience of carrying out routine PPM using computer-aided facilities management (CAFM) systems.
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Essential criteria
- Working on drainage and sewage systems?
Desirable criteria
- Do you have experience working in adverse weather conditions?
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dean Rodwell
- Job title
- Hospital Engineer Buildings Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01634 976440
- Additional information
Available Mon - Fri 08:00 to 16:00
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