Maintenance Assistant
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary, North East
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust based in 317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary. The advertised salary is £25,760 to £27,476. Applications close on 8 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
The Estates Directorate is seeking to recruit a highly motivated and flexible maintenance assistant to join the Engineering Department based at the Ro...
- Typical PPM tasks will include, but are not limited to; Emergency Light testing; PAT testing; ventilation grille cleaning; air handling unit inspections and cleaning, PPMs, fire alarm testing, Bed Maintenance, Fire Damper Testing etc.. Additional role requirements will also include the completion of minor works and day to day reactive maintenance of an Engineering/ Building manner.
- Flexible working is required to meet the Estates support demands of a large Acute Hospital Trust.
- Work under the direction of a craftsperson while working alongsideo Carry out a range of individual and support duties including maintenance 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
- Bed Maintenance
- Emergency Light Testing
- Fire Alarm Testing
- Fire Damper Testing
Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
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.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
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 Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Desirable: - NVQ Level 2
Essential: - Basic building and engineering knowledge and relevant experience within a maintenance environment; - Knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation.
Desirable: - Experience with specialist maintenance activities e.g. PAT Testing, Fire Damper testing etc..; - Experience of working in an Acute Hospital environment
Essential: - Be capable of working unsupervised with tools and equipment, on a wide range of technical plant equipment and services; - Both written and verbal communication skills are required.; - Basic keyboard skills; - Work with & without supervision.; - Perform wide range of duties using technical plant and equipment and services.; - Ability to work on planned preventative maintenance programmes.
Desirable: - Current Driving Licence
How this role compares
We hold 349 NHS vacancies in North East that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role pays less than about 80% of them.
There are 12,785 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 618 of them in North East.
You have 5 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 59 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
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