Maintenance Assistant
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, GB, HP11 2TT
Maintenance Assistant
Location: Amersham Hospital, Amersham, HP7 0JD
Salary: £27,000 - £30,000 pro rata depending on experience plus Serco benefits
Schedule: Fulltime 37.5 hours per week, flexible working different shifts
Ready to impact a better future?
As a Maintenance Assistant in our UK and E Health team, you’ll help keep essential hospital environments safe, functional, and ready to support patient care. Every day, you’ll play a part in work that touches lives and strengthens the quality of healthcare services.
You’ll support the upkeep of the building fabric, plant, and equipment to ensure a well maintained, resilient environment for colleagues, patients, and visitors. Your work will help create the reliable spaces people depend on — and contribute to a healthier future for the communities we serve.
What you’ll do as a Maintenance Assistant
You’ll be entrusted to:
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Carry out reactive repairs, defect work, servicing, commissioning, and maintenance across a wide range of hospital plant and equipment.
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Complete Planned Preventive Maintenance activities to support safe and reliable operations.
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Follow all Serco policies, procedures, workplace regulations, and bestpractice guidelines.
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Take a proactive approach to health and safety, reviewing systems and working practices to ensure continuous improvement.
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Work safely at all times, using appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
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Communicate promptly with supervisors or managers regarding unresolved faults, defects, or parts requirements.
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Attend onsite and offsite training as needed to support your development.
Does this sound like you?
You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have:
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Level 2 NVQ or Level 2 National/Diploma Certificate.
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Experience working in a similar environment, ideally within building services.
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Knowledge and understanding of building services systems.
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Strong communication and customer service skills.
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Confidence working at height and using ladders or tower scaffolds.
Vetting and checks:
An Enhanced DBS check is required for this role. This includes spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and any relevant information held by local police, in accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and safeguarding requirements. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to allow us to provide any support needed for you to succeed in the role.
Discover all you need to keep growing
We’re one of the top 1% of international employers, so you can have confidence you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.
What we offer:
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Salary: Competitive salaries with annual reviews
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Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
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Holidays: 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays
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Training and development: We offer a wide range of learning opportunities with over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
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Wellbeing: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, BUPA Anytime Healthline, wellbeing app, simply health cash plans to claim back money towards healthcare costs, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres
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Discounts: Save across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
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Employee networks: Dedicated networks where colleagues can come together to find support, share challenges, discuss ideas, network and be part of a community
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Charity: Support a charity or organisation with a paid volunteering day each year. You can also choose to donate to your favourite charity tax-free, through our Payroll Giving Scheme
Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.
About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.
By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.
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Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.
