Shift Technician

Shift Technician

The closing date is 29 June 2026.

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Shift Technician to join our Estates and Facilities Team. This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week) working a scheduled shift pattern to provide 24/7 Estates cover across Trust sites.

The primary purpose of the Shift Technician role is to undertake Estates operations, maintenance, and improvement works that may be complex, demanding, and occasionally non-routine. The post holder will carry out multi-trade maintenance activities across electrical, mechanical, and building services systems, ensuring compliance with Trust safety standards, statutory regulations, HTM's, HBN's, British Standards, and all relevant codes of practice.

The Shift Technician will be responsible for planned preventative maintenance, reactive fault finding, emergency response, and the operation and monitoring of plant and equipment including boilers, steam systems, electrical distribution, generators, BMS, fire alarms, lifts, medical gases, water systems (including RO), and other critical infrastructure. The role requires high levels of concentration, technical expertise, and the ability to problem-solve complex engineering faults in a pressurised healthcare environment.

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The Shift Technician will be responsible for delivering a comprehensive estates engineering service across Trust sites, ensuring plant, equipment and infrastructure remain safe, compliant and fully operational within a 24/7 healthcare environment.

The post holder must demonstrate professionalism, flexibility and a strong commitment to maintaining a safe environment that supports high-quality patient care.

• Work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Provide first response to fire alarms and emergency situations, liaising directly with the Fire Service and isolating services where required.
• Participate in major incident and chemical incident response teams.
• Carry out condition surveys, inspections, testing, and commissioning activities.
• Maintain accurate documentation including job sheets, test certificates, and compliance records.
• Provide technical advice and support to staff, contractors, and external agencies.
• Lead lift release procedures when required.
• Work safely in potentially hazardous environments including confined spaces, live LV environments, steam systems, and clinical areas.

The role requires flexibility, the ability to prioritise changing workloads, and a commitment to maintaining a safe environment that supports high-quality patient care and the overall patient experience.

• Qualification
• Knowledge
• Experiance
• Skill and Ability
• Personal Qualities
• Qualification
• Experiance

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£32,073 to £39,043 a year pro rata