Job overview

Are you a qualified Mechanical Gas Engineer looking for a role with real purpose, variety, and the opportunity to make a difference in your local community? Join Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust’s dedicated Estates team and play a key role in maintaining and improving the essential gas systems that power our healthcare services across Sussex. You’ll be part of a supportive and skilled workforce that values your expertise and offers plenty of opportunities to learn and grow.

In this role, you’ll use your knowledge and experience to keep our Trust buildings safe, compliant and running efficiently—helping ensure patients and staff can rely on high-quality, well-maintained facilities every day.

This vacancy offers flexibility to be based at either Bognor Regis War Memorial Hospital or Brighton General Hospital, giving you the choice of location that works best for you.

Main duties of the job

As a Mechanical Gas Engineer, you will:

• Carry out installation, maintenance, fault diagnosis, and repairs on a range of gas-fired systems and equipment, including boilers, water heaters, and catering appliances.

• Perform planned preventative maintenance across SCFT and other local organisations we support.

• Support apprentices and semi-skilled colleagues with advice and guidance.

• Use a variety of digital and analogue testing tools and update statutory records.

• Work flexibly across Trust sites, with mileage reimbursed, and participate in an on-call rota for additional pay.

• Help create and maintain our preventative maintenance schedules, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.

• Be part of a team that values innovation, technical skill, and excellent service delivery.

If you’re looking for a meaningful role where your technical expertise will be appreciated and developed, we’d love to hear from you.

Working for our organisation

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?
•    Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
•    Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
•    Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
•    Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
•    Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
•    Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
•    Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
•    Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.