Maintenance Team Leader
Location: Robin House, Balloch
Salary: £36,827 - £41,159 per annum + 6% shift allowance
Contract: Permanent, Full Time: 35 hours per week
Closing Date: 23 August 2026
Looking for a maintenance leadership role where your expertise helps create a safe, welcoming environment for children and families?
As a Maintenance Team Leader at Robin House, you'll lead a small team responsible for maintaining the hospice buildings, grounds, equipment and essential services that underpin everything we do. You'll combine technical expertise with people leadership, ensuring our estate remains safe, compliant and fit for purpose while supporting children, families, staff, volunteers and visitors.
Working closely with the Estates & Operations Manager, you'll coordinate planned, preventative and reactive maintenance activities, oversee statutory inspections and compliance programmes, manage contractors and suppliers, and provide leadership and support to maintenance and gardening staff and volunteers.
This is a varied role offering genuine responsibility and autonomy. From managing service contracts and ensuring fire safety compliance to supporting estate improvement projects and leading your team, you'll play a vital role in ensuring Robin House continues to provide an exceptional environment for the families who rely on CHAS.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will have skills and experience in the following areas:
- Significant experience in a multi-skilled maintenance role, covering a range of building maintenance disciplines including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, joinery and general building fabric.
- Strong knowledge of statutory compliance, health and safety legislation, fire safety requirements and safe systems of work.
- Experience planning, prioritising and coordinating maintenance activities, contractors and service providers.
- The ability to lead, motivate and support a small team, helping colleagues and volunteers perform at their best.
- Experience working in a customer-facing or sensitive environment where professionalism, discretion and compassion are important.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to exercise sound judgement when managing competing priorities and responding to operational issues.
- Confidence using Microsoft 365 applications and maintaining accurate records and compliance documentation.
- A current driving licence and ability to travel between sites when required.
About CHAS
At CHAS, we support families across Scotland who are living with the heartbreak that their child is dying. Our teams work together to create moments of joy and provide care, compassion and practical support when it matters most.
As Maintenance Team Leader, you'll be responsible for ensuring the environment around our children, families, staff and volunteers remains safe, welcoming and fully operational. From maintaining essential building services and managing compliance programmes to supporting hospice events and improvement projects, your work will directly contribute to the experience of every family who comes through our doors.
Working at CHAS means being part of a supportive, collaborative team where your contribution is valued and where your work has genuine purpose every day.
We Offer
- Meaningful work: use your technical expertise and leadership skills to make a tangible difference to children and families across Scotland.
- Leadership opportunity: lead and develop a dedicated maintenance and gardening team while helping shape the future of the Robin House estate.
- Varied and engaging work: no two days are the same, with responsibility for buildings, grounds, compliance, contractors, projects and team leadership.
- Professional development: opportunities to develop your technical, compliance and leadership skills.
- Pension: membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and, where eligible, the opportunity to continue contributing to an existing NHS pension scheme.
- Generous annual leave: 35 days increasing to 40 days after 5 years' service; where applicable, recognition of NHS service and enhanced entitlement up to 40 days.
- Health and wellbeing support: access to HSF employee benefits and wellbeing support services.
- Exclusive discounts: access to Blue Light Card and other staff discount schemes.
Further Information and How to Apply
If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.
Visit our vacancy page for further information about the role and the benefits of working for CHAS: https://chas.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/4273028
To arrange an informal chat about the position, please contact Dean Riddell, Estates & Operations Manager DeanRiddell@chas.org.uk
For any queries regarding the recruitment process, please contact our HR Team on 0131 444 3293 or by emailing careers@chas.org.uk
This post is subject to a Disclosure Scotland PVG check.
Please note that a current driving licence is essential for this role.
