Job summary
- Main area
- Estates Maintenance
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 197-RF8066
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital Lewisham
- Town
- Lewisham
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 per annum plus HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Maintenance Assistant
Band 3
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced person to join our on-site engineering team as an Estates Maintenance Assistant, reporting to the Fabric Supervisor, who will be an active member of the Estates team responsible for carrying out the safe installation, operation, maintenance, and repair of the Trust's plant, equipment and buildings.
The post holder will be required to work under pressure in emergency situations where the failure to act promptly or safely may result in serious injury, damage or loss of life.
Previous NHS experience is not essential although would be useful, and full supplementary training will be provided.
Main duties of the job
To provide a specialised service providing support to new works and maintenance to building, plant and equipment. To have an understanding of other building trades, building services and to work under the supervision of other craftsmen, having a team approach in providing quality maintenance services whilst supporting the Hospital in providing excellent patient environment.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To provide a painting service throughout the hospital in support of new works and maintenance. Such work to include making good and minor finishing works eg tiling around baths, showers, sinks and plastering defects in walls and ceilings.
2. Provide a fast response to maintenance work to ensure that a satisfactory patient environment is maintained. Provide time and cost estimates in support of new works and refurbishment projects.
3. Carry out a wide range of tasks related to skills of other trades as competency permits and as directed by Operational Estates. Be willing to cross-train in other trade skills as necessary eg lamp/bulb changing, cleaning light diffusers, unblocking WC’s, sink wastes and drains etc.
4. Able to work with a minimum of supervision. Provide information to colleagues as necessary to ensure effective communication. Respond promptly to minor repairs and maintenance identified during day to day movements. Work flexible hours as necessary in support of specific projects/maintenance programmes to facilitate maintenance and ensure that the patient environment is maintained at acceptable levels.
5. Maintain and update maintenance documentation as necessary (including personal time sheets).
6. Responsible for ensuring that stock levels of consumable (ie paints etc.) are routinely monitored and the Storekeeper advised accordingly to ensure stock levels are maintained to support the patient environment.
7. Communicate with nursing and management staffs to ensure requirements are clear, service levels are acceptable and problems resolved eg access to patient areas. Work sensitively with minimum disturbance in areas where patients and visitors are present especially at times of emotional stress.
8. Actively make suggestions to improve the working environment especially with regard to H&S and service provision.
9. Ensure the safe operation, maintenance and storage of all workshop equipment including hand tools.
10. Attend training courses in support of maintenance tasks, eg COSHH, legionella control, infection control procedures, ladder safety etc.
11. Instruct, provide guidance and oversee as required, contractors, work experience trainees, etc.
12. Work and co-operate with the Hospitals contractors as required.
13. Observe and comply with the Trust’s policies and procedures for Health and Safety ensuring the environment in which you work is safe, clean and tidy and comply with standard infection control precautions to prevent or minimise the spread of micro-organisms and communicable diseases to patients, staff and surrounding community.
14. Observe and continually promote equal opportunities in compliance with the Trust’s policy on Equality and Diversity and Dignity at Work.
15. To carry out and respond to electronic communication system (portable radios) in line with the policies and procedures for said system.
16. Be able to use a wide range of plant and equipment (after suitable training) including electric tugs, access platform etc.
17. Assist in snow clearance and gritting and unblocking road drains when appropriate to weather conditions.
18. To supervise and assist contractors in carrying out surveys and works as required, including assisting with access to plant rooms.
19. To be available to work overtime, sometimes at short notice (if available) to meet the needs of the Trust particularly for shutdowns and servicing of key clinical areas.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- City & Guilds qualification, NVQ3
- Qualification or certification in Health and Safety, e.g., Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS), Health and Safety passport scheme.
- A recognised qualification in the building trades.
Desirable criteria
- Customer service qualification
- First Aid qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent and significant post qualification experience, preferably within a healthcare environment.
- Experience of working to deadlines and prioritising own workload
Desirable criteria
- Experienced on working on large estates in complex working environments
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Construction and maintenance skills, including familiarity with the relevant regulations and guidance.
- Understand, interpret and create drawings, specifications, schedules and plans
- IT literate, e.g., email, MS Office, CAFM software.
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of appropriate Health & Safety legislation.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Toni Johns
- Job title
- Compliance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07788353647
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