Estate Maintenance Technician (Joinery/Carpentry)

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David Hodgkins - Senior Estates Operational Manager ***email_hidden***

About The Role

Build Environments That Support Exceptional Patient Care

Every day, our healthcare buildings play a crucial role in delivering safe, effective, and compassionate care. We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Maintenance Technician (Carpentry & Joinery) to join our Estates Team and help ensure our facilities remain safe, functional, and welcoming for patients, visitors, and staff.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced tradesperson who takes pride in delivering high quality workmanship and wants to make a real difference within the NHS. Working across a diverse healthcare estate, you will undertake a wide range of maintenance, repair, improvement, and refurbishment activities, with a particular focus on Carpentry and Joinery.

As a Band 5 Maintenance Technician, you will also have the opportunity to utilise advanced technical skills, support project delivery, mentor colleagues, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our Estates service.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you're looking for a rewarding role where your skills and expertise will have a direct impact on patient care and the healthcare environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Join our Estates Team and help create spaces that care for people.

Main duties

• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance and reactive repairs across a varied healthcare estate.
• Delivering high-quality carpentry, joinery, painting, decorating, and general building maintenance works.
• Diagnosing faults and implementing effective solutions to minimise disruption to clinical services.
• Supporting the delivery of minor refurbishment and improvement projects.
• Helping to maintain safe, compliant, and patient-focused environments.
• Providing technical guidance and mentoring to Maintenance Assistants and less experienced colleagues.
• Sharing specialist knowledge and offering technical advice to fellow tradespeople, supervisors, and Estates Managers.
• Ensuring all work is completed to the highest standards of safety, quality, and customer service.
• Accurately maintaining records using electronic maintenance management systems.
• Participating in emergency and on-call arrangements where required.

Essential Person Specification Requirements

You are a qualified and experienced Carpentry and Joinery professional who enjoys problem-solving, takes pride in your work, and is committed to delivering excellent service.

Essential Qualifications

• Recognised Apprenticeship or Level 3 qualification in Carpentry and Joinery (or equivalent).
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Full UK driving licence (if required for the role).

Essential Experience & Skills

• Extensive experience in building maintenance, repairs, and refurbishment.
• Strong carpentry and joinery skills, with experience in painting and decorating.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
• Experience supporting, coaching, or mentoring colleagues.
• Good understanding of health and safety legislation and safe systems of work.
• Strong communication and customer service skills.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve a broad range of building maintenance issues.

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application Guidance

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Our Benefits

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including:
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Home electronics scheme
• Cycle to work scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support

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