Multi Skilled Services Engineer (Mechanical)

Job overview

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a skilled and motivated Multi Skilled Services Engineer (Plumber) to join our Estates and Facilities team. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in maintaining the engineering infrastructure that supports the delivery of outstanding patient care across our hospital sites.

The successful candidate will provide a comprehensive plumbing and mechanical maintenance service, carrying out planned preventative maintenance, reactive repairs, fault finding, testing, inspections, and installation work across a diverse healthcare estate. Working on a range of systems including domestic water services, pumps, pipework, sanitary systems, and mechanical plant, you will help ensure that essential services remain safe, reliable, and fully operational.

In return, we offer a supportive working environment, ongoing training and development opportunities, access to the NHS Pension Scheme, generous annual leave entitlement, and the opportunity to build a rewarding career within one of London's leading NHS Trusts.

If you are a dedicated plumbing professional looking for a varied and rewarding role where your work directly contributes to patient safety and operational excellence, we would be delighted to hear from you. Join us and help maintain the environments that enable exceptional care for our patients, visitors, and staff every day.

Main duties of the job

The postholder is responsible for delivering safe, effective, and compliant mechanical maintenance services across the Trust, ensuring all work is undertaken in accordance with statutory regulations, HTMs, British Standards, and Trust policies. The role includes managing planned and reactive maintenance through the CAFM system, maintaining accurate records, supporting audits and compliance activities, and contributing to the safe operation of critical engineering systems. The postholder will monitor performance, support continuous service improvements, participate in training and professional development, and promote high standards of health, safety, governance, and risk management. They will also support budgetary control through efficient use of resources, liaise with contractors and stakeholders, participate in the on-call rota, and work flexibly across Trust sites as a multi-skilled technician to ensure the delivery of reliable, patient-focused Estates services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The postholder is responsible for providing a comprehensive, high-quality mechanical engineering maintenance service across the Trust’s estate, ensuring that all plant, equipment and engineering systems are maintained in a safe, reliable and compliant condition to support the delivery of patient care. The role encompasses the planned and reactive maintenance of a wide range of mechanical systems, including heating, ventilation, water services, pressure systems, medical gases and other specialist infrastructure, ensuring compliance with all relevant statutory legislation, Health Technical Memoranda (HTMs), British Standards, Trust policies and industry best practice. The postholder will use the Trust’s CAFM system to manage, prioritise and record maintenance activities, ensuring accurate documentation of all works undertaken, compliance records, asset information and audit evidence. They will contribute to the achievement of regulatory compliance through participation in Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) programmes, inspections, audits, risk assessments and permit-to-work systems, while actively identifying, escalating and mitigating risks that may affect operational service delivery.

The role requires a strong commitment to quality, safety and continuous improvement, including monitoring equipment performance, analysing maintenance trends, supporting service improvement initiatives and contributing technical expertise to engineering projects and operational decision-making. The postholder will maintain up-to-date professional knowledge through ongoing training and development, supporting the Trust’s compliance agenda and progression towards Competent Person, Responsible Person or Authorising Person status where appropriate. They will promote effective governance by adhering to all Health & Safety requirements, safe systems of work and risk management procedures, while ensuring contractors and colleagues work in accordance with statutory obligations and Trust standards. In addition, the postholder will support efficient financial management through the effective use of resources, stock control, procurement support and the delivery of cost-effective maintenance solutions.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary Estates team, the postholder will provide a flexible and responsive service across all Trust sites, participating in the on-call rota and responding to emergency situations as required. They will liaise professionally with clinical teams, patients, visitors, contractors and colleagues, maintaining excellent communication and customer service standards at all times. The role requires the ability to operate as a multi-skilled technician, undertaking a variety of engineering and non-engineering maintenance tasks to support the wider Estates function, ensuring that the Trust’s buildings, infrastructure and critical services remain safe, compliant, operationally effective and fit for purpose.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.