Apprentice Maintenance Assistant
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Surrey (GU16 7UJ)
Closes in 12 days (Monday 29 June 2026)
Posted on 16 June 2026
Contents
Summary
The Building Services Engineering Service & Maintenance Engineer Apprenticeship develops skilled professionals to ensure efficient, safe, and sustainable operation of building systems.
- Wage
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£27,106 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
NHS Band 3 £27,106 er annum including HCAS (High Cost Area Allowance)
- Training course
- Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
- Hours
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Rotating shift system, including late shifts & weekends.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Thursday 20 August 2026
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- General reactive maintenance of all building systems including Steam, Compressed Air plant and services, B.M.S, Heating services & equipment.
- Maintenance checks of boilers and plantrooms.
- Assisting technicians with duties as required.
- Take part in a rotating shift system that involves working late shifts and weekends.
- General housekeeping of working areas, plantrooms, workshops, stores.
- Monitor the safe working environment of plantrooms.
- Maintain radio communication with team leaders and maintenance team.
- Monitor emergency bleep system when required.
- Complete jobs and update customers using PDA provided.
- Assist team with KPI targets, number of jobs per day.
- Promote health and safety for yourself and others.
Where you'll work
Frimley Health
Porstmouth Road
Camberley
Surrey
GU16 7UJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GLP TRAINING LTD
Training course
Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply safe working practices and comply with safe working methods, including highlighting control method application and safe systems of work.
- Comply with current company policies and procedures.
- Undertake dynamic risk assessment to identify and manage a safe working environment.
- Produce a risk assessment.
- Produce a method statement.
- Plan work activities.
- Apply sustainable principles and techniques.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow organisational and site procedures for waste management across the site.
- Plan, organise, and carry out tasks in a way that utilises resources, for example cost, quality, safety, security, and environmental impact.
- Plan, organise, prepare, and secure area of work for setting out and work activities.
- Minimise delays to planned work.
- Amend and replan work activities.
- Prepare and maintain work areas to ensure safe access and egress for self and others.
- Select, use, secure and store hand and power tools, equipment, and components.
- Interpret information from sources such as manufacturer's instructions, drawings, plans, specifications, or previous reports.
- Carry out testing and commissioning of a building services engineering system.
- Carry out decommission of a building services engineering system.
- Undertake planned maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.
- Undertake reactive maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.
- Isolate building service engineering systems.
- Identify and diagnose faults and outline solutions for resolution.
- Replace components.
- Communicate options in writing for repairs, replacements or improvements including the impact of cost, and timescales in writing.
- Handover completed maintenance activities.
- Use information technology and digital systems to monitor and manage the operation of plant and equipment.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic.
- Provide internal feedback.
- Communicate verbally with internal and external stakeholders using sector specific terminology.
- Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion principles and policy.
- Refer problems outside of own responsibility or authority to the relevant person.
- Identify, carry out and record industry related continuing professional development (CPD) activities.
- Repair components.
- Apply safe working practices and comply with safe working methods, including highlighting control method application and safe systems of work.
- Comply with current company policies and procedures.
- Undertake dynamic risk assessment to identify and manage a safe working environment.
- Produce a risk assessment.
- Produce a method statement.
- Plan work activities.
- Apply sustainable principles and techniques.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow organisational and site procedures for waste management across the site.
- Plan, organise, and carry out tasks in a way that utilises resources, for example cost, quality, safety, security, and environmental impact.
- Plan, organise, prepare, and secure area of work for setting out and work activities.
- Minimise delays to planned work.
- Amend and replan work activities.
- Prepare and maintain work areas to ensure safe access and egress for self and others.
- Select, use, secure and store hand and power tools, equipment, and components.
- Interpret information from sources such as manufacturer's instructions, drawings, plans, specifications, or previous reports.
- Carry out testing and commissioning of a building services engineering system.
- Carry out decommission of a building services engineering system.
- Undertake planned maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.
- Undertake reactive maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.
- Isolate building service engineering systems.
- Identify and diagnose faults and outline solutions for resolution.
- Replace components.
- Communicate options in writing for repairs, replacements or improvements including the impact of cost, and timescales in writing.
- Handover completed maintenance activities.
- Use information technology and digital systems to monitor and manage the operation of plant and equipment.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic.
- Provide internal feedback.
- Communicate verbally with internal and external stakeholders using sector specific terminology.
- Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion principles and policy.
- Refer problems outside of own responsibility or authority to the relevant person.
- Identify, carry out and record industry related continuing professional development (CPD) activities.
- Repair components.
Training schedule
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
- Ability to travel between hospital sites.
- Ability to travel to residential & non residential training to support completion of the apprenticeship.
- Flexible in approach to overtime and working hours.
About this employer
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire. We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough. We run outpatient clinics and diagnostic services from Aldershot, Farnham, Fleet, Windsor, Maidenhead, Bracknell and Chalfont St Peter. We hold 3 core values, Committed to Excellence, Working Together, and Facing the Future
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Further development within NHS Estates team.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GLP TRAINING LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000037372.
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Closes in 12 days (Monday 29 June 2026)
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