Job overview

Join Our Estates Team and Make a Real Difference!

Are you a skilled Building Technician with a passion for delivering high-quality maintenance and repair work? NHS Frimley Health Foundation Trust is looking for a motivated and reliable Estates Building Technician to join our dedicated Estates team based in Slough.

As an Estates Building Technician, you will work autonomously to carry out planned, corrective, and emergency maintenance on the Trust’s buildings and grounds. Your expertise in carpentry, joinery, painting, decorating, and minor building repairs will be essential in ensuring a safe, functional, and welcoming environment for patients, staff, and visitors. This varied role also includes small project works and adaptations to internal spaces, requiring a hands-on approach and a keen eye for detail.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver minor repair works and general carpentry and joinery maintenance to a high standard.

• Undertake internal and external painting and decorating duties across Trust properties.

• Erect access equipment safely, with appropriate training and competency.

• Diagnose and repair faults in building structures, including roofs and finishes.

• Manage materials ordering through the Trust’s systems and maintain accurate records.

• Operate hand and power tools safely and effectively.

• Respond promptly to emergencies, carrying a communication device at all times.

• Assist with small internal alterations from concept through to completion.

• Collaborate with team leaders and escalate tasks when necessary.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.