Maintenance Assistant

About the Organisation

NHS Orkney is committed to delivering excellent care to our 22,000 residents. Whether you're new to the NHS or bringing experience from elsewhere, your skills will make a real difference.

Our modern healthcare facility, The Balfour, brings together inpatient care, emergency services, outpatient clinics, diagnostics, GP practices and the Scottish Ambulance Service. We're also investing in services across our outer isles, ensuring high-quality care reaches every corner of Orkney.

We are guided by our core values that shape everything we do - Open and honest, Respect and Kindness - from how we care for our patients to how we support each other as colleagues.

About Orkney

With over 70 islands - 20 of them inhabited - Orkney offers a unique blend of natural beauty, close-knit community and an opportunity for adventure. From dramatic coastlines and rare wildlife to rich cultural traditions and active lifestyles, it's a place where compassion thrives and every day brings something new. Regularly named one of the UK's best places to live, Orkney offers a lifestyle that's both fulfilling and inspiring.

The Position

The Estates Maintenance Assistant plays an important role in maintaining safe, functional, and well presented NHS Orkney facilities, delivering an efficient maintenance service across The Balfour and other sites. The role involves supporting planned and reactive maintenance, grounds upkeep, and painting and decorating tasks, ensuring both internal and external areas are maintained to a high standard and provide a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for patients, staff, and visitors.

The Candidate

The role requires a basic standard of education equivalent to National 4 level, practical experience in building maintenance or a related trade, and a sound understanding of health and safety.

Candidates should be confident using hand and basic power tools, able to carry out general maintenance tasks, and work reliably to instructions and deadlines.

Good communication skills, flexibility, and a professional approach are essential, along with a willingness to undertake relevant NHS and manufacturer training to develop and maintain technical competence.

A full current UK driving licence. It is essential that the post holder holds a full UK driving licence. Where, by virtue of a disability, an applicant has the qualifications and experience to perform the role but is unable to drive, consideration will be given to reasonable adjustments, including alternative transport arrangements.

Location, Working Pattern and Contract Duration

This post will be based at The Balfour.

The successful candidate will work: Full Time 36 hours per week ( Monday to Thursday and on Friday).

This post is Permanent.

It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post that will be employed with NHS Orkney.

Benefits and Salary

The salary for this post is Band 2 and if residing on Orkney, you'll also receive a Distant Islands Allowance of £1,719 pro rata per annum, adding extra value to your rewarding career with us.

NHS Orkney also offers an attractive pension scheme, wide range of work life balance policies, employee assistance programme and various discounts to both local and national retailers.

Equal Opportunities and Disability

NHS Orkney is an equal opportunities employer committed to advancing equality and particularly welcomes applications from groups of people currently underrepresented within the workforce. We are a committed participant in the Disability Confident Leader Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for our vacancies.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy

Candidates should provide original and authentic responses to all questions within the application form. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), automated tools, or other third party assistance to generate, draft, or significantly modify responses is strongly discouraged. By submitting your application, you confirm that all answers are your own work, reflect your personal knowledge, skills and experience, and have not been solely produced or altered by AI or similar technologies. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in your application being withdrawn from the application process.

Interview Date

Monday 1st of June 2026