Maintenance Assistant

Are you an experienced Maintenance Assistant looking for your next rewarding challenge? If you share our values and take pride in creating safe, welcoming environments, we'd love to hear from you.

Joining our friendly Estates team, you will support the delivery of an efficient estates maintenance service to St Margaret’s Hospice, based in Taunton.

The Maintenance Assistant plays a key role in delivering front-line maintenance services, responding to defects and breakdowns, and carrying out planned preventative maintenance across our hospice sites.

Role details

• Salary: £25,472 per annum
• Hours: 37 per week
• Working Pattern: Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm and Friday 9am to 4:30pm
• Contract: Permanent, Full time

The successful candidate will have

• Good all-around knowledge and experience of basic maintenance tasks
• Skills to enable them to undertake fault finding and general maintenance on all aspects of the fabric of the building and equipment
• Opportunity to undertake on-the-job training as part of a formal training plan to ensure safe work systems are maintained at all times, in compliance with health and safety regulations.
• A full driving licence and access to a vehicle are required for local travel to collect materials, with mileage expenses reimbursed.

Who are we looking for

• An experienced maintenance assistant to join our team who is enthusiastic and eager to provide a comfortable hospice environment for our patients and staff.
• Able to encourage and motivate our maintenance volunteers as well as support the Maintenance Supervisor to deliver an effective operational maintenance service.

Our Values

At St Margaret’s Hospice, our values guide everything we do. We are:

• Compassionate: Kindness and care for everyone, every day
• Collaborative: One team, working together for one goal
• Ambitious: Striving for better, now and into the future.

Inclusive recruitment
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. If your experience broadly matches the role and you’re motivated to make a difference, we encourage you to apply.

If you need adjustments during recruitment, please contact recruitment@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk.

Why join St Margaret’s Hospice?

You won’t just be joining a fantastic team - you’ll become part of a welcoming, community-minded charity making a real difference every day.

We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment alongside a range of benefits including:

Holiday entitlement

• 33 days including bank holidays, rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave

Pension scheme

• NHS pension continuation where applicable*
• 6% employer / 5% employee contribution for non-NHS staff

Additional Benefits

• Life assurance cover (2x salary)
• Health Cash Plans
• Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 GP access, counselling, wellbeing support, and legal/financial advice
• Blue Light Discount Card
• Enhanced maternity leave*
• Excellent learning and development opportunities
• Free on-site parking in Yeovil and Taunton
• Opportunities to volunteer and support fundraising initiatives

• Eligibility criteria applies

Want to Apply or Find Out More?

For more information or to arrange an informal visit email Lynn Tanswell, Head of Estates at lynn.tanswell@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk

We are currently managing the recruitment process in-house and kindly ask that recruitment agencies refrain from contacting us with candidates for this role.

If you have all the information you need, just click apply. We can't wait to hear from you!

Closing date: 9th September 2026

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.

Safer Recruitment

St Margaret's Hospice are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of those who use our services.

As part of our safer recruitment processes, all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks relevant to the role. These may include verification of identity, right to work, references, DBS, and other regulatory, fraud prevention, and compliance checks.

The Disclosure and Barring Service offers a confidential checking service for transgender applicants. This route gives applicants the choice not to have any gender or name information disclosed on their DBS certificate and is available for all levels of DBS check.