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The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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"Compassionate Care, Safety and Quality at the heart of everything we do"
We provide acute and specialist services from Hillingdon Hospital and Mount Vernon Hospital. Our services include; accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. Our modern treatment centre at Mount Vernon offers routine inpatient services, diagnostics and outpatient clinics.
Our vision is: To put compassionate care, safety and quality at the heart of everything we do. We are clear that this can only be achieved by our staff, our most valuable asset. We are committed to making improvements which we will deliver through living our core values: Communication, Attitude, Responsibility, Equity and Safety - CARES. More information about our vision and values and how we build theses into our recruitment process can be found at https://www.thh.nhs.uk/about/values.php
We aim to continually improve our facilities and services and some recent improvements include: a new acute medical unit and endoscopy suite, a new specialist neuro-rehab unit, a refurbishment of our maternity unit, a new Macmillan cancer information centre as well as an award winning dementia-friendly ward for elderly people with complex health conditions.
Working with us
Our team at Hillingdon is made up of over 3000 dedicated and passionate staff who work together to deliver high levels of patient care. Our team includes medical staff, other health professionals, clinical support, corporate staff, facilities staff and volunteers to name but a few.
We value our staff and wherever possible offer flexible hours and a full range of benefits including on-site nursery facilities, child care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme, on-site restaurant with 20% discount for staff, health, fitness and shopping discounts as well as a wide range of training and career development opportunities. We are proud to say that our CQC inspection reflected the values of our caring staff and our staff survey results show that our staff look forward to coming to work here
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is very proud of its diverse workforce: our differences is what makes our Trust unique. We are an employer of equal opportunities.
As part of our values, we are committed to improve our way of working to be more inclusive and equal. We actively celebrate colleagues’ different abilities, sexual orientation, ethnicity, faith, and gender. Therefore, we welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, so as to build an organisation that represents a variety of cultures, skills and traits ’
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Estates Maintenance Multi-Skilled Technician
Accepting applications until: 21-Dec-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 21-Dec-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Hillingdon Hospital
- Address
- Pield Heath Road
- Town
- Uxbridge
- Postcode
- UB8 3NN
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Salary
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Estates Maintenance
- Interview date
- 07/01/2026
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The Trust only accepts applications made through this site, please register when you click APPLY at the end of this advertisement. The Trust is able to offer hospital accommodation, pension scheme, on-site nursery (through third party provider), together with salary sacrifice schemes (including child care vouchers, ride to work) and a range of national and local staff discounts (subject to availability).
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Job overview
The Estates Maintenance Multi-Skilled Technician is a key member of the Estates Maintenance Department at The Hillingdon Hospital site, responsible for ensuring the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of all engineering, building, and utility systems that support the delivery of patient care.
The post holder will undertake a wide range of reactive and planned preventative maintenance (PPM) tasks across mechanical, electrical, and building-fabric disciplines, ensuring all work is completed in accordance with statutory regulations, Health Technical Memoranda (HTMs), Joint Service Publication (JSP 375), and Trust policies.
As the first point of response for Estates-related maintenance requests, the post holder will be expected to diagnose, repair, and resolve faults quickly and safely across systems such as heating, domestic hot and cold water, electrical distribution, pressure systems, steam boilers, and condensate return systems.
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They will also carry out planned inspection, servicing, and compliance testing to ensure the Trust maintains full operational resilience and statutory compliance.
The role includes the operation and monitoring of the Building Management System (BMS) — such as Trend — to observe plant performance, adjust control parameters within agreed limits, and respond to system alarms to support energy efficiency and environmental control.
The post holder will be formally appointed as a Competent Person (CP) under relevant engineering disciplines as defined by HTM and JSP guidance and will be expected to work in accordance with the Trust’s Permit-to-Work and Authorisation frameworks.
In addition to normal working hours, the post holder will participate in the Estates On-Call Rota, providing out-of-hours technical support and attending site when required to maintain the safety and functionality of the hospital’s engineering services.
This is a practical, hands-on role requiring a multi-skilled technician with sound engineering knowledge, strong problem-solving ability, and a commitment to maintaining a safe, compliant, and patient-focused hospital environment.
Working for our organisation
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust’s services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.
The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this – particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,
community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals
provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.
We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Person Spec
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 or City & Guilds in Electrical, Mechanical, or Building Services Engineering.
- Recognised multi-skilled maintenance qualification across at least two engineering disciplines.
- Completed apprenticeship or equivalent structured training in a relevant engineering or building-services trade.
- Training in safe systems of work (e.g. Permit-to-Work, Lock-out/Tag-out, Risk Assessment, Hot Works).
- Proven experience delivering reactive and planned maintenance in a large, multi-discipline environment.
- Skilled in fault-finding and repair of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.
- Experience maintaining domestic and commercial water systems, pumps, pressure plant, and steam boiler and condensate-return systems.
Desirable criteria
- IOSH Working Safely / Managing Safely.
- Authorised or Competent Person training in one or more HTM disciplines (Electrical, MGPS, Lifts, Pressure Systems, Ventilation).
- Boiler Operation Accreditation Scheme (BOAS) qualification for operation and maintenance of steam boiler and condensate return systems.
- BMS operation or Trend-system training certification.
- Asbestos Awareness and Manual Handling training.
- Previous employment within an NHS Estates or other healthcare environment
- Experience performing duties as a Competent Person under HTM or JSP 375 appointment.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- William Onek
- Job title
- Estates Maintenance Manager (Hillingdon Hospital)
- Email address
- [email protected]
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