Facilities Maintenance & Safety Coordinator
- Hours: 37.5 hours per week
- Location: Rennie House, Tring with travel to other base locations required.
- Salary: £25,446.00 per annum
- Closing date: Sunday 26 July 2026 at 12 noon
- Interview date: TBC
Are you someone who enjoys solving problems, and taking pride in ensuring buildings are safe and well-maintained?
Join our Facilities team and help us keep our hospice sites safe, welcoming and running smoothly for patients, families, volunteers, and staff.
As a Facilities Maintenance & Safety Coordinator you’ll maintain our portfolio of offices, retail and care locations. This is a varied and hands-on role combining maintenance, compliance, health and safety, contractor management and property support.
What you will do
✅ Leading the day-to-day management of buildings, grounds, and infrastructure across multiple sites.
✅ Managing building systems (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning, electrical, water, fire systems and more).
✅ Overseeing contractors, suppliers, and service agreements (cleaning, waste, utilities, security).
✅ Driving continuous improvement, sustainability, and cost-efficiency initiatives.
✅ Managing and developing a small facilities team including volunteers.
✅ Supporting refurbishment, upgrade, and estate improvement projects.
✅ Ensuring compliance with health & safety, regulatory, and statutory requirements.
✅ Carry out routine maintenance, repairs and preventative maintenance across multiple sites.
✅ Identify and log maintenance issues and coordinate appropriate repair solutions.
✅Conduct regular health and safety and compliance checks, including;
- Fire alarm testing
- Emergency lighting tests
- Water hygiene monitoring
- PAT testing administration and record keeping
✅ Work closely with contractors, volunteers and internal teams to ensure work is completed safely and effectively.
✅ Support building compliance and risk management activities.
✅ Carry out seasonal grounds maintenance and site inspections.
✅ Distribute supplies and manage facilities-related equipment.
✅ Undertake van inspections and maintain accurate records.
✅ Support the organisation's Health & Safety programme, including risk assessments and incident reporting.
What you will need
- All candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
- Proven maintenance or facilities experience.
- A good level of IT literacy is required, including confidence in using Microsoft Office applications, email, and other digital systems relevant to the role.
- We do not sponsor for this role and due to the minimal hours required for this role, we cannot progress applications for candidates sponsored by another employer.
- Manual handling and/or heavy lifting.
- Full, current valid UK driving licence.
- Access to a vehicle which can be used for work purposes.
- Car insurance, including business cover.
- If successful a DBS check will be undertaken as part of the onboarding process.
For an informal chat about this role contact Elizabeth Gloyn, Facilities Manager on [email protected]
Please click on the attached link for further information about Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care - https://renniegrovepeace.org/our-care-and-support/
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.
To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate to this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.
Our commitment to Equality and Diversity
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection process, and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.
If you are disabled and satisfactorily meet the job specification, we will invite you to interview. You can contact us to let us know if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.
