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Job summary

Main area
Estates Maintenance
Grade
Grade B
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
423-AGHS7126353
Employer
AGH Solutions Ltd
Employer type
NHS
Site
Airedale General Hospital
Town
Steeton, Keighley
Salary
£24,977 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/04/2025 23:59

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Estates Maintenance Assistant - (Grade B)

Grade B

AGH Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. We are proud of our NHS heritage, and proud to be supporting Airedale’s clinical services.

We provide a wide range of services from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement, to clients both within and beyond the NHS.

Job overview

AGH Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and provides Estates, Facilities and procurement services for the Trust.

We are looking for a Estates Maintenance Assistant to join our  team. 

We are looking for highly motivated and professional individuals capable of working well within our current Estates team.

Main duties of the job

To undertake, without supervision a variety of tasks which would include:-

  • Lighting checks
  • Replacement of lighting tubes or bulbs
  • Cleaning diffusers
  • Fixing of notice boards, clocks, notices etc
  • Replacement of damaged ceiling tiles
  • Cleaning extract fans and ventilation grilles
  • Replacement/re-fixing of toilet seats
  • Replacement/re-fixing of hand/safety rails
  • Inspection and first aid repairs to flooring
  • Re-washering hot and cold water taps
  • Temperature checks water services
  • Care of curtain tracks, blinds etc

Working for our organisation

AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.

We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.

We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.

Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.

Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHSFT specifically.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are seeking an individual with the experience and qualifications stated in the essential criteria within the person specification.

This position is not currently eligible for a certificate of sponsorship in line with Home Office guidance as it does not appear on the skilled worker visa occupation list.

 If you currently hold a different type of visa allowing you to work in the UK we would welcome an application from you. If your visa expires or there is a change in status during your employment, the Trust will be required to review your employment which may result in the termination of your employment to comply with the relevant immigration legislation.

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Good standard of secondary education to GCSE level or better in Maths English and Craft Studies.
Desirable criteria
  • Computer user and application skills

Skills/Competencies

Essential criteria
  • Able to demonstrate a flexible approach to problem solving and broad knowledge of the work requirements and patterns of other trades.
  • Able to use own initiative in relation to problem solving in order to resolve situations to a satisfactory conclusion.
  • Ability to work as an individual with a minimum of supervision or as part of a team.
Desirable criteria
  • Has had some formal H&S training.
  • Has some form of formal qualification in a building service discipline.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • To have recent relevant experience of working within a maintenance function aimed at ensuring the quality and standard of the built environment.
  • Able to substantiate at interview knowledge and experience in relation to the routine maintenance of building services and other relative experience claimed within the application form.
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of working in a hospital\healthcare\care home environment

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sue Bennett
Job title
Estates Maintenance Support Engineering Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01535 294827
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