Job summary
This post is only open for applications for individuals employed within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Care System
Organisations within scope are as follows:
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
- Southern Health Foundation Trust
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
- University Hospital Southampton
- Solent NHS Trust
- South Central Ambulance Service
- Isle of Wight NHS Trust
- Hampshire Hospitals
Band 5 - £ £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Permanent 37.5 hours per week
We have a great opportunity for you to join our Clinical Engineering Team here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. We are looking to recruit a Clinical Engineering Technician to provide support in specialist areas such as Critical Care, Neonatal Intensive Care, Cardiac Care and Emergency Department. You will have experience in providing comprehensive medical device maintenance, repair, commissioning and management services to a wide range of clinical specialties and geographical areas. You will use your knowledge to assist and advise nursing and other staff in the use of medical devices.
Main duties of the job
- To provide comprehensive medical device maintenance, repair, commissioning and management services to a wide range of clinical specialties and geographical areas. To provide those services to one or more specialist areas e.g. Critical Care, Neonatal Intensive Care, Cardiac Care and the Emergency Department
- Provide assistance and guidance to nursing and other staff in use of medical devices.
- Organise and update service, operation and instruction procedures.
About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Perform a range of technical duties, guided by procedures involving autonomous work on both general and complex medical equipment in the clinical and workshop environment to ensure the optimum effectiveness, reliability, availability and safety of medical devices.
- To commission, calibrate, deploy and maintain a wide range of complex medical devices e.g. Patient Ventilators, Incubators, Resuscitaires, Patient Monitoring, Defibrillators etc.
- Investigate and test medical devices, analysing the results to diagnose faults or problems on complex medical devices. Demonstrating equipment operation and techniques to individual clinical users where this is a solution to a problem. Communication of investigation results to users, colleagues and suppliers, sharing knowledge and experience.
- Using primarily computerised systems, make accurate equipment maintenance history records and other information supporting audit, quality and performance monitoring.
- Ensure all duties are delivered in an efficient, safe, professional and organised way according to Section policies, procedures and Health and Safety documentation.
- Using knowledge and experience of clinical procedures involving medical devices are deployed and used safely and where appropriate contribute to the training of technical, medical and nursing staff and patients in the proper care and effective use of medical devices.
- Liaise with medical device suppliers to obtain technical and commercial information in relation to equipment maintenance and evaluation.
- First line support of instrumentation interfaces to specialist clinical computer systems, liaising with IM&T to resolve problems as necessary.
- Monitor stocks and initiate orders to ensure the timely and adequate procurement of medical device parts and accessories to maintain devices in a serviceable condition.
- In consultation with Clinical Engineering Team Leader, comment and contribute to planned maintenance schedules and section procedures to develop the service in an effective and efficient manner.
- Liaise with users and other team members to prioritise and plan own workload to ensure optimum efficiency in responding appropriately to urgent requests. Complete and review equipment and job audits to ensure quality and performance targets are met.
- Work activities may involve the exposure to unpleasant conditions e.g. body fluids and distressing situations in clinical environments.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Perform a range of technical duties, guided by procedures involving autonomous work on both general and complex medical equipment in the clinical and workshop environment to ensure the optimum effectiveness, reliability, availability and safety of medical devices.
- To commission, calibrate, deploy and maintain a wide range of complex medical devices e.g. Patient Ventilators, Incubators, Resuscitaires, Patient Monitoring, Defibrillators etc.
- Investigate and test medical devices, analysing the results to diagnose faults or problems on complex medical devices. Demonstrating equipment operation and techniques to individual clinical users where this is a solution to a problem. Communication of investigation results to users, colleagues and suppliers, sharing knowledge and experience.
- Using primarily computerised systems, make accurate equipment maintenance history records and other information supporting audit, quality and performance monitoring.
- Ensure all duties are delivered in an efficient, safe, professional and organised way according to Section policies, procedures and Health and Safety documentation.
- Using knowledge and experience of clinical procedures involving medical devices are deployed and used safely and where appropriate contribute to the training of technical, medical and nursing staff and patients in the proper care and effective use of medical devices.
- Liaise with medical device suppliers to obtain technical and commercial information in relation to equipment maintenance and evaluation.
- First line support of instrumentation interfaces to specialist clinical computer systems, liaising with IM&T to resolve problems as necessary.
- Monitor stocks and initiate orders to ensure the timely and adequate procurement of medical device parts and accessories to maintain devices in a serviceable condition.
- In consultation with Clinical Engineering Team Leader, comment and contribute to planned maintenance schedules and section procedures to develop the service in an effective and efficient manner.
- Liaise with users and other team members to prioritise and plan own workload to ensure optimum efficiency in responding appropriately to urgent requests. Complete and review equipment and job audits to ensure quality and performance targets are met.
- Work activities may involve the exposure to unpleasant conditions e.g. body fluids and distressing situations in clinical environments.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BEng/BSc in electronics or a scientific subject OR HNC/HND working towards degree
Desirable
- Other applicable qualifications and with relevant experience
Experience
Essential
- Eighteen months experience of electronic and electromechanical systems.
- (or exceptionally other equivalent combination of qualifications and knowledge)
- Medical devices and healthcare environment
- Manufacturers training courses
- Information Technology experience
- Member of an appropriate professional institute
- Member of Register of Clinical Technologists (RCT)
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Responsive and flexible attitude and approach
- Create and maintain effective professional relationships
- Effective communicator both orally and written
- Ability to act and ensure delivery
- Physically fit to undertake tasks involving frequently lifting and moving medical equipment
- Prepared to work in clinical areas where there are critically unwell patients connected to, and dependant on, medical devices
Desirable
- Prepared to work some unsocial hours
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BEng/BSc in electronics or a scientific subject OR HNC/HND working towards degree
Desirable
- Other applicable qualifications and with relevant experience
Experience
Essential
- Eighteen months experience of electronic and electromechanical systems.
- (or exceptionally other equivalent combination of qualifications and knowledge)
- Medical devices and healthcare environment
- Manufacturers training courses
- Information Technology experience
- Member of an appropriate professional institute
- Member of Register of Clinical Technologists (RCT)
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Responsive and flexible attitude and approach
- Create and maintain effective professional relationships
- Effective communicator both orally and written
- Ability to act and ensure delivery
- Physically fit to undertake tasks involving frequently lifting and moving medical equipment
- Prepared to work in clinical areas where there are critically unwell patients connected to, and dependant on, medical devices
Desirable
- Prepared to work some unsocial hours
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
