Facilities Operative
Salary: £19,180 per annum (£28,387 pro rata), 25 hours per week Monday - Friday
Location: Worcester Royal Hospital, Worcester
We’re looking for a Facilities Operative to help keep our properties at Worcester Royal Hospital safe, clean and well maintained.
This is a hands-on, varied role where you’ll be a visible presence on site, working with the wider team to make sure our customers have a safe and welcoming place to live.
What you’ll do
- Carry out regular health and safety checks in communal areas
- Test fire safety equipment such as emergency lighting, smoke detectors and fire alarms, keeping accurate records and reporting any faults promptly
- Liaise with external contractors to make sure electrical and fire safety repairs and maintenance are completed
- Clean and maintain communal areas inside and outside our blocks, including bin rooms and refuse chutes, and clear blockages where needed
- Inspect communal areas for faults, carrying out minor repairs or reporting them to our Repairs team
- Look after grassed areas and shrubberies, and keep external areas tidy
- Monitor car parking facilities and arrange for large items of rubbish and abandoned vehicles to be removed
- Check that lifts are working and, if there’s a failure, make sure people on site are safe and report it
- Inspect empty homes and raise repairs
- Work closely with colleagues on site, attending team meetings and briefings
About you
You’ll bring:
- An understanding of health and safety requirements
- Ideally, experience in a similar role
- The ability to carry out minor maintenance tasks
- Confidence using mobile devices to record inspections, and using Microsoft Office
- Accuracy and attention to detail when completing inspection forms
- A friendly, customer-focused approach, both with customers and colleagues
Experience of carrying out compliance testing would be an advantage but isn’t essential.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds. If this role interests you, we’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t meet every requirement.
If this sounds like your next step, we’d love to hear from you.
Closing date will be: 9am Monday 9 November 2026
Please refer to the recruitment pack upon completing your application.
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