Maintenance Assistant
The closing date is 02 September 2025
Job summary
The Estates Directorate is seeking to recruit a highly motivated and flexible maintenance assistant to join the Building Department based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary 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.
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.
- Interview date: 17th September 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.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
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 organisational skills are paramount to being a success in this role. It is essential you understand other works in relation to their own discipline to provide a coherent service when carrying out both maintenance and minor work schemes.
Flexible working is required to meet the Estates support demands of a large acute teaching hospital Trust, and although predominately based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary there may be a need to undertake work at any of our community sites across the region.
About us
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.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
o Freeman Hospital
o Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
o Newcastle Dental Hospital
o Newcastle Fertility Centre
o Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
o Northern Genetics Service
o 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 Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Details
Date posted
19 August 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
317-2025-34-10-DR
Job locations
Royal Victoria Infirmary
317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary
NE1 4LP
Employer details
Employer name
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Victoria Infirmary
317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary
NE1 4LP
Employer's website
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Employer contact details
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Supporting documents
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