Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist - Mechanical

Overview

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The closing date is 12 November 2025

We are recruiting for an Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The job role is busy and varied, working as part of the Mechanical team, as well as the rest of the maintenance team and managing your own workload. You will be required to liaise with people within your department and around the Trusts Sites. The role will require attending maintenance requests, on call urgent call outs and weekly Planned Maintenance work orders. As well as the monthly wage Estates Engineers are currently entitled to a recruitment and retention payment at £3277 pa.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

You will be a technician with a mechanical or plumbing background and will carry out, with minimum supervision, maintenance and installation work on all facilities, plant and equipment throughout East and North Herts NHS Trust Estate, to deputise for the Team Leader in their absence.

You will also provide technical engineering advice and support for the maintenance of equipment, fabric, and utility services for the trust.

You will be expected to commute between various hospital sites. A mileage allowance will be paid for this facility.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification Qualifications / Training

• Approved Apprenticeship, NVQ Level 3, or City Guilds Technicians Certificate, BTEC ONC or equivalent in relevant topics.
• Able to travel between sites easily

Previous Experience

• Proven relevant experience working on breakdowns and PPM on mechanical/plumbing plant & equipment in a hospital environment.
• Previous hospital experience
• Recognised M&E hands on experience with DHWS, Heating services,
• Working knowledge of maintenance of medical gases

Skills

• Communication Skills
• Able to work unsupervised
• Organisational Skills
• Able to use word, email, excel

Other Requirements

• Role model our Trust values every day
• Inclusion of diversity and experience
• Respect and creating safe environments
• Improvement consistently delivering excellent services

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust