Shift Technician | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivatedShift Technicianto 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.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis 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 viewOUH 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 theOUH YouTube channel.

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.

This advert closes on Wednesday 20 May 2026

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