Maintenance Assistant - Joiner

Full -Time Shift Joiner

Location: Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert, FK5 4EB
Salary: £30,353.00 - £33,016.00 per annum Agenda for Change – on call allowance between £4,969.63 to £5,403.83. Shift allowance is paid in addition to the salary as well as overtime at enhanced rates.

Schedule: Full-time, working a mixture of Dayshift, Back shift and Night shift, including weekends across a 6‑week rotating shift pattern (averaging 36 hours per week).

Ready to impact a better future?
As a Full-Time Shift Joiner in our Forth Valley Hospital team, you’ll help keep the hospital environment safe, functional, and well maintained so colleagues and patients can rely on spaces that work exactly as they should.

Your work will have a direct positive impact on the community by helping create safe, compliant, and well cared-for facilities. You’ll play a part in ensuring the hospital can keep delivering essential care, every day.

What you’ll do as a Full-Time Shift Joiner
You’ll be entrusted to:

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) across the hospital estate.
• Respond promptly to reactive maintenance tasks and joinery repairs.
• Inspect, repair, and maintain doors, fixtures, fittings, and general joinery installations.
• Carry out inspection, maintenance, and repair of fire doors where required.
• Receive, manage, and close out work orders through the site Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) system.
• Accurately record completed work, materials used, and follow-on tasks within the CAFM system.
• Ensure all tasks comply with health and safety procedures, risk assessments, and safe systems of work.
• Maintain a tidy and safe workspace and report hazards or defects promptly.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the maintenance team and wider hospital environment.
• Support compliance with relevant healthcare building standards and regulations.

Does this sound like you?
You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have:

• A recognised qualification or time-served background as a Joiner or Carpenter.
• Experience carrying out both PPM and reactive maintenance.
• Experience using a CAFM system.
• Strong understanding of health and safety responsibilities within a maintenance environment.
• Solid problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently during shift operations.
• Clear communication skills and a proactive approach to maintaining a safe environment.

Vetting and checks:
This role requires membership of the PVG Scheme, which involves a detailed check of spent and unspent convictions and other relevant information to ensure safeguarding compliance. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire so we can provide any necessary support to help you carry out your responsibilities.

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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:

• Salary: Competitive salaries with annual reviews
• Pension: Competitive contributory pension scheme with employer contributions, designed to be broadly comparable to other public sector pension arrangements
• Holidays: 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays
• 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
• 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
• Discounts: Save across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
• Employee networks: Dedicated networks where colleagues can come together to find support, share challenges, discuss ideas, network and be part of a community
• 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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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.