Job Description

Handyman/Fabric Operative

Cambridge Hospital | Maintenance | Bank | Part time

Competitive salary, depending on experience

Nuffield Health is Britain’s largest not-for-profit healthcare organisation. Join us as a Handyman / Maintenance Operative

As an individual with experience in a similar role or the right aptitude, you will be working within a professional committed team with specific duties that ensures extremely high standards of which is appreciated by our customers.

The Opportunity

Our Facilities and CBRE team plays an essential role in ensuring our hospital remains safe, clean, professional, and welcoming for every patient, visitor, and member of staff who walks through our doors. The Handyman / Maintenance Operative will provide a high-quality, reliable, and professional maintenance and repair service across Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital. The primary focus of this role is painting, decorating, and minor fabric works, with the broader responsibility of helping to maintain a safe, presentable, and welcoming environment across all hospital areas.

Your role will be varied, each day never the same, interacting with a wide range of people that will make your job very interesting. Our goal is to give you job satisfaction and provide a healthy, safe working environment that you enjoy being in. The postholder will work in line with Nuffield Health's CARE values, hospital policies, health and safety legislation, and infection prevention standards at all times. They will be expected to work with minimal disruption to patients, visitors, and clinical staff, treating everyone they encounter with professionalism, dignity, and respect

The Role:

Painting, Decorating and Fabric Works

• Carry out internal and external painting and decorating tasks to a consistently high standard.

• Prepare surfaces thoroughly prior to decorating, including filling, sanding, patching, and priming.

• Complete minor fabric repairs to walls, doors, door frames, skirting boards, ceilings, fixtures, and fittings.

• Ensure all finished work is presented to a professional standard appropriate to a private hospital environment.

General Maintenance and CBRE Support

• Undertake a range of general maintenance and minor repair tasks within competence and authorisation.

• Support planned maintenance, refurbishment, and improvement projects as directed by the Facilities Manager.

• Move furniture and equipment safely as required to facilitate maintenance activities.

• Identify defects, hazards, and areas requiring specialist attention and report these promptly to the Facilities Manager.

• Maintain tools, materials, and work areas in a clean, organised, and safe condition at all times.

Health, Safety and Infection Control

• Work in full compliance with Nuffield Health's health and safety policies and all relevant legislation.

• Follow hospital infection prevention and control procedures at all times, particularly when working in patient-facing areas.

• Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) as required for each task.

• Report all accidents, incidents, near misses, and hazards in line with hospital policy without delay.

Patient and Visitor Experience

• Ensure all maintenance activities are carried out with minimal disruption to patients, visitors, and clinical staff.

• Treat every patient, visitor, and colleague encountered with courtesy, dignity, and respect.

• Maintain awareness of the hospital environment and act in a manner that upholds Nuffield Health's reputation for high-quality care.

Communication and Teamwork

• Liaise regularly with the Facilities Manager regarding work progress, priorities, and completion of tasks.

• Work collaboratively and supportively with the wider Facilities and CBRE team.

• Support the Facilities team with ad hoc duties as reasonably required.

The Person

As an individual with experience in a similar role, or the right aptitude you will:

• Take pride in your work

• Be committed and passionate

• Have good attention to detail

• Be a good listener

• Provide general assistance and support as part of a professional team

• Care about our customers, so that you can organise your own work and plan your time to make sure Porterage activities never gets in the way of customer's experience.

• Have good communication skills with a good basic level of English language (this will come in handy when you are working in a team with your colleagues, and also when you are interacting with our customers)

• Possess good customer service skills, as this is a customer facing role

• Be looking for development opportunities

The role requires working across all areas of Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital, including patient-facing wards and rooms, corridors, offices, theatres, and service spaces. The postholder should be prepared to:

• Stand, walk, and move around the hospital for extended periods during a shift.

• Carry out physical tasks including bending, kneeling, and lifting materials safely.

• Work at height where required, using appropriate equipment in line with safe working procedures.

• Adapt flexibly to changing priorities and operational needs as directed by the Facilities Manager.

• Work bank hours on a flexible basis, to be agreed, with the potential for occasional variation depending on planned maintenance or urgent works.

Please remember to inform your line manager when making your internal application.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

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