Electrical Engineering Technician (Multi-skilled)

Haywards Heath, England, United Kingdom

7/7/2025

The Estates Team prides itself on delivering an Engineering support service across the Trust in order to maintain patient and staff environments.

Key Working Relationships

Develop and maintain good working relationships with clinicians, departmental heads, Risk Management, statutory regulators, Fire Brigade, external consultants, contractors and company representatives

• To maintain and repair a wide range of electrical and mechanical plant & equipment.
• Undertake an Electrical Authorised Person role as required (Electrical bias Technicians)
• Undertake the role of a medical gas competent person carrying out maintenance, repairs and duties related to medical gas pipeline systems.
• To be included on the On-Call Rota, to meet emergency and urgent situations out of hours. To be prepared to respond to emergency work outside normal working hour.
• Make calls to approved Contractors for breakdowns out of hours as necessary when on-call.
• Deal with major incidents such as loss of electrical services to critical areas, loss of medical gas to critical areas, loss of heating and hot water services to critical areas
• Assist to motivate, train and develop the maintenance team and apprenticeship scheme, ensuring the effective use of labour and materials to provide an efficient maintenance service for the Trust's building assets and to support Trust Managers.
  
  

At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always put the Patient First. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of Staff Networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) and a Veteran Aware Trust.

We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We’re here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our Wellbeing Programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it, including where possible, flexible working to support work life balance - because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.

As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.

We look forward to receiving your application and the start of your journey with UHSussex.

Candidate Information Pack: https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/resources/candidate-information-pack/

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Marcus Banfield Job title: Electrical Team Leader Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01444 441881

Jason Gater

Workshop Manager - PRH

01444 441881