Main area Facilities Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (1 day per week at 12.20pm-8.30pm unsocial hours.) Job ref 828-PROVIDE4146-B

Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site St Peters Hospital Town Maldon Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 05/08/ :00

Job Overview

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality services that make a real difference to patient care? We are looking for a proactive and reliable Senior Facilities Assistant (Mobile) to support the delivery of domestic and catering services across our community hospital sites.

This is a varied and hands-on role that combines operational support, staff supervision, quality monitoring, and service coordination. Working across multiple locations, you will play a key role in ensuring our environments remain clean, safe, welcoming, and compliant with healthcare standards. You will support the Soft FM Coordinator in maintaining service excellence, overseeing day-to-day facilities activities, and ensuring the highest standards of cleanliness, food safety, and patient experience are achieved.

The successful candidate will be a team player with robust organisational skills, a flexible approach, and a commitment to delivering exceptional customer service.

Available as a full-time role across both our Halstead and Maldon sites, or as a part-time role at either location (hours to be agreed)

Main duties of the job

- Support the day-to-day delivery of domestic and catering services across community hospital sites.
- Provide guidance and supervision to Facilities staff, ensuring duties are completed effectively and in accordance with organisational policies and procedures.
- Assist with staff rota management and help ensure adequate service cover is maintained across sites.
- Carry out inspections, audits, and cleaning checks, maintaining standards are consistently maintained.
- Compliance with Food Safety, Infection Prevention, Health & Safety, COSHH, and organisational procedures and highlight Soft FM Coordinator.
- Support the induction, training, and development of new Facilities staff.
- Maintain appropriate stock levels of cleaning materials, food supplies, and consumables are maintained.
- Record and report maintenance issues, helping to ensure defects are addressed promptly.
- Maintain effective communication within departments to support excellent service delivery.
- Provide hands-on operational support, including domestic and catering duties, when required to maintain service continuity.
- Travel between sites to support service needs and ensure a consistent standard of facilities provision and flexible working to check all staff shifts.

Working for our organisation





Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see attached job description for full detailed list of duties and requirements of the role advertised. Thank you for taking the time to apply for a role within Provide.

Person specification

Application form

Essential criteria

- Previous supervisor experience in a healthcare environment
- Good standard of education

Desirable criteria

- NVQ Level 3 qualification

IT skills

Essential criteria

- Basic IT skills

Desirable criteria

- Good communication skills

Further Information

How will we contact you?

- All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
- As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide,



we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
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Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination. We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

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Work Trials

Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager. We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators. The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.

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📌 Senior Facilities Assistant (Mobile) (Maldon)
🏢 Provide Community
📍 Maldon