Band 3 £28,011 - £30,230 plus £1750.47 High Secure Environmental Allowance per annum.

Full Time 37 hours per week

Contract Duration – Permanent

Post Details- The State Hospital, provides high secure psychiatric care for patients from Scotland and Northern Ireland. Our strategy is to ensure equitable provision of high quality, clinically effective services to meet the mental health and social care needs of all patients.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Estates Department for a Maintenance Assistant.

You will provide a maintenance service including ground maintenance, assisting all craft trades and carrying out semi-skilled duties in a wide range of hospital estates services tasks.

A flexible approach to work is necessary as variations to the standard working week may be required in order to meet the needs of the service. There will be a requirement for you to participate in the out of hour’s on-call rota for winter maintenance between October and March.

Experience- You should be able to demonstrate experience of assisting all craft trades, carrying out semi-skilled duties and grounds maintenance in a wide range of hospital estates services tasks.

The closing date for applications is 15 October 2025.

For an informal discussion please contact Robert Deans, Estates Co-Ordinator on 01555 842102 or Brian Maclean, Estates Manager on 01555 842165.

If you have any queries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact the HR Team on [email protected].

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society. It should be noted that the State Hospital is a high secure hospital and the current organisational position based on a risk assessment is that we welcome applications from people under the age of 18 for non clinical roles however to be eligible for a clinical role applicants should be 18 years and older. Should you have any questions in relation to this please contact [email protected]

Right to Work –

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.

As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check this entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa, and settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, and if you can demonstrate such cover, please refer to the GOV.UK website here. 

For specific types of post, it might be possible to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.

Please note that the State Hospital is NOT licensed to issue certificates of sponsorship under current UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) regulations. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship to work with us.

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you have an appropriate right to work in the UK BEFORE applying.

Reduced Working Week* -

Starting from 1 April 2024, the working week for NHS Agenda for Change workers in Scotland will be reduced. Full-time hours will be reduced from 37.5 to 37 hours, and part-time staff will get a pro-rata reduction in their working hours without losing any earnings. Although the State Hospital will implement this change, it may not be possible to transition fully from 1 April. Therefore, there may be some areas in the organisation where implementation may take longer. If the department cannot safely accommodate the reduced hours from 1st April, you may be required to work 37.5 hours per week (pro rata for part-time staff) until the department can meet the requirements without impacting patient safety. Of course, you will be remunerated accordingly. The State Hospital is committed to fully implementing the 37-hour working week across all areas as soon as it is safe to do so.