Maintenance Officer

As a Maintenance Officer at Southern Hospice Group, you will play a vital role in ensuring our hospice environments are safe, functional, and welcoming for patients, families, and staff. Working across our three hospice sites, you will maintain buildings, facilities, and equipment to a high standard, supporting the delivery of compassionate care. This hands-on role involves a wide range of planned and reactive maintenance tasks, contributing to a safe and well-functioning environment. Key Duties and Responsbilities

• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance tasks across sites
• Undertake general repairs including building, maintenance, plumbing, and other areas of work
• Ensure maintenance work is completed on schedule and correctly recorded
• Maintain equipment and facilities in safe working condition
• Support maintenance and improvement projects
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations
• Identify hazards and promote safe working practices
• Liaise with contractors and supervise on-site work
• Provide technical support to colleagues and volunteers
• Work flexibly across sites and participate in on-call duties
• Report updates to the Maintenance Manager
  
  We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.
  
  Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.
Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together. St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services. Chestnut Tree House is the children's hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.


• Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
• Up to 35 days' annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• On-site education support and study leave opportunities
• Option to access Medicash and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
• Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
• Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in Service