Building Services Trades Person Treatment Centre

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The closing date is 18 February 2026

To work within the Estates team to undertake general building maintenance tasks, these will include general repairs to the building fabric including painting, decorating and maintenance duties within Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust s will include travelling between sites undertaking tasks in line with relevant policies and procedures, ensuring that all assigned duties and tasks have been completed in a timely and efficient manner.

Work safely in live clinical environments, planning tasks to minimise disruption to patients, staff and services. Carry out painting, decorating and finishing works across clinical and non-clinical areas to maintain a clean, safe and welcoming healthcare facility. Prepare surfaces to a high standard, including filling, sanding, priming and repairing minor defects before applying finishes. Supporting the wider Estates maintenance teams by assisting with minor building fabric repairs when required.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

To carry out a range of painting, decorating and finishing tasks to maintain a safe, clean and welcoming environment across NHS facilities. The postholder will assist with routine maintenance, refurbishment and projects working both independently and as part of the Estates team.

Full job description available in supporting documents.

• Ability to use hand and simple tools.
• Knowledge of basic health and safety.
• Ability to communicate effectively using written & spoken communication and non-verbal communication such as e-mail etc.
• Polite and presentable, able to understand and carry out complex tasks accurately, good spoken communication skills, able to relate to the general public, able to work effectively as part of a team, and to keep calm and work effectively under pressure.
• Awareness of Infection Prevention Control (IPC) processes when working within the built environment.

• Previous experience of general building services maintenance activities, including painting, decorating. Demonstratable experience.
• NVQ level 3 or above in relevant building services discipline or Demonstratable experience equivalent working in a similar environment.

• Demonstratable experience working in a relevant building services or maintenance environment, with a track record of competence.
• Ability to work without direct supervision.
• Acute NHS healthcare maintenance or similar fast paced environment.

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.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust