About this role
Job summary
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.
Main duties of the job
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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.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Job description Job responsibilities
The post holder will:
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.
Person Specification
Desirable Essential
Qualification Knowledge Experiance Skill and Ability Personal Qualities
Desirable
Qualification Experiance
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details Employer name Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address Headington
John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford
OX39DU
Employer's website https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)