Job summary
The Medical Equipment Management Service (MEMS) are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated individual to join the clinical engineering team. The team are responsible for the service and maintenance of equipment via external contracts, as well as inventory management, device safety, connectivity and replacement planning.
The post holder will work across the contracts and device safety teams to co-ordinate and record technical activity relating to the device inventory, acting as liaison between users and technical service providers, both in-house and external to the Trust. Under the supervision of the medical device safety officer, the post holder will action responses to field safety notices, recording corrective actions on the medical device asset register. We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills and attention to detail. Experience of working in a technical service environment is essential. Specific experience of medical equipment management is desirable. You will need to be a team player, be able to work independently and prioritise your workload. Flexibility is essential to accommodate the constantly changing demands of a very busy service.
Main duties of the job
Job Summary
The post holder will support the Contracts Manager in ensuring that biomedical, laboratory and imaging equipment are maintained to a high standard via external maintenance contracts. The post holder is responsible for ensuring timely servicing of equipment and prompt responses to issues such as equipment repairs and field safety notice corrective actions when notified by stakeholders, such as end users, workshop engineers or the medical device safety team. The post holder will scrutinise technical content of repair documentation to interpret and manage follow-up actions. This includes accurately recording technical information on the Trust medical device asset register and designing reports to query the database, ensuring transparent and robust device governance.
At all times the post holder will be required to communicate with stakeholders and suppliers, whilst adhering to the Trust confidentiality policy and procedures.
About us
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.
King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reachis our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King's to another level.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will support the Contracts Manager in ensuring that biomedical, laboratory and imaging equipment are maintained to a high standard via external maintenance contracts. The post holder is responsible for ensuring timely servicing of equipment and prompt responses to issues such as equipment repairs and field safety notice corrective actions when notified by stakeholders, such as end users, workshop engineers or the medical device safety team. The post holder will scrutinise technical content of repair documentation to interpret and manage follow-up actions. This includes accurately recording technical information on the Trust medical device asset register and designing reports to query the database, ensuring transparent and robust device governance.
At all times the post holder will be required to communicate with stakeholders and suppliers, whilst adhering to the Trust confidentiality policy and procedures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will support the Contracts Manager in ensuring that biomedical, laboratory and imaging equipment are maintained to a high standard via external maintenance contracts. The post holder is responsible for ensuring timely servicing of equipment and prompt responses to issues such as equipment repairs and field safety notice corrective actions when notified by stakeholders, such as end users, workshop engineers or the medical device safety team. The post holder will scrutinise technical content of repair documentation to interpret and manage follow-up actions. This includes accurately recording technical information on the Trust medical device asset register and designing reports to query the database, ensuring transparent and robust device governance.
At all times the post holder will be required to communicate with stakeholders and suppliers, whilst adhering to the Trust confidentiality policy and procedures.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree/NVQ Level 6 in a relevant subject, or extensive knowledge, skills and experience in the field of equipment maintenance and support.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Working knowledge of all Microsoft Office packages (e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and internet use)
- Ability to cope with variety of tasks under pressure.
- Able to exercise own initiative and able to operate autonomously.
- High level of planning and organisational skills with a flexible and adaptable approach.
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
Desirable
- Able to assimilate, analyse and present complex data.
- Able to negotiate issues of a technical and commercial nature.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide range of people in different roles and at different levels of seniority both internal and external.
- Experience of medical device management.
- Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Good attention to detail
Desirable
- Experience of monitoring equipment maintenance providers.
- Knowledge of NHS structure
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree/NVQ Level 6 in a relevant subject, or extensive knowledge, skills and experience in the field of equipment maintenance and support.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Working knowledge of all Microsoft Office packages (e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and internet use)
- Ability to cope with variety of tasks under pressure.
- Able to exercise own initiative and able to operate autonomously.
- High level of planning and organisational skills with a flexible and adaptable approach.
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
Desirable
- Able to assimilate, analyse and present complex data.
- Able to negotiate issues of a technical and commercial nature.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide range of people in different roles and at different levels of seniority both internal and external.
- Experience of medical device management.
- Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Good attention to detail
Desirable
- Experience of monitoring equipment maintenance providers.
- Knowledge of NHS structure
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
