Estates Maintenance Worker - Carpentry

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The closing date is 03 March 2026

We are recruiting for a Estates Maintenance Worker who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The post holder will be a carpenter with a building background and will carry out, with minimum supervision, building maintenance and installation work on all buildings within East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust estate.

They will also provide technical building/carpentry advice and support for the maintenance of all relevant buildings within the trust.

The post holder will need to be able to travel easily between sites.

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.

The Estates Maintenance Worker will maintain/repair and install door furniture, fixtures and fittings.

Be able to erect studwork partitioning walls, plaster boarding, hang doors, bath panels and boxing in other fittings when required.

Understand, maintain, install and repair simple & complex locks and locking systems, coded door locks and drug cupboard locks.

Manufacture parts and assemblies using lathes and machine tool and be able to undertake minor decoration work.

Understand all relevant statutory building requirements.

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.

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

• Extensive experience working on reactive and planned maintenance carpentry/joinery tasks
• Previous hospital experience

• Has the ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Able to solve problems or pre-empt problems by employing appropriate measures and processes.
• Commitment to, and experience of, multi-professional working arrangements and projects
• Flexible and keen to progress and be trained in other skills

• Able to diagnose and repair faults on all carpentry, door furniture and fittings found around the hospital.
• Exceptional understanding and working knowledge of technical specifications required for carpentry maintenance and repair.
• Exceptional understanding and working knowledge of health and safety standards for carpentry maintenance and repair
• Understanding and appreciation of other craft trades and services within the healthcare premises
• Knowledge of fitting all types of locks used in the healthcare building environment.

• Completed an Approved Apprenticeship, NVQ Level 2/3 or full City and Guilds Certification in Carpentry and/or Joinery
• Health and Safety Courses

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.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust