Job summary
Join Our Dynamic Multi-Disciplinary Team!
Are you ready to take the next step in your career within a forward-thinking and supportive environment? We're offering an exciting opportunity to become part of our Clinical/Technical services team within MEMD, where your enthusiasm and technical skills will make a real difference.
As a valued team member, you'll:
- Contribute to the planned maintenance, repair support, acceptance, and condemnation of a wide range of medical equipment.
- Play a key role in the servicing of community-deployed sleep therapy/CPAP devices within our Respiratory Clinic.
- Work within a department that is ISO 9001:2015 certified by the British Standards Institution, ensuring high standards and continuous improvement.
What We're Looking For:
- A BEng in Electronics or an equivalent Level qualification.
- A passion for learning and the ability to absorb technical knowledge quickly.
- A proactive approach to gaining broad experience in medical equipment maintenance.
What You'll Gain:
The opportunity to progress through the MEMD competence profile.Access to manufacturer-led training courses on complex medical devices.A chance to work in a team that values innovation, quality, and professional development.
Main duties of the job
This post is responsible for their own caseload leading the technical maintenance of highly complex medical devices across at least one complete clinical service. This includes governance aspects such as supporting device replacement introductions, contributing to end-user training, workshop technical investigation of patient safety incidents etc
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BEng in electronics/clinical engineering or relevant equivalent
- Candidates with the lower qualification would be taken on via Annex 21 in a training role to reach this minimum level.
- Specialist knowledge through post-graduate diploma, specialist equipment training and experience or equivalent
Further Training
Essential
- Will have attended a range of manufacturer's technical training courses
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of planned maintenance, repairs and acceptance testing to a wide range of medical devices and a minimum of three years experience of medical device maintenance
Desirable
- Experience working within Healthcare Environment
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Registered Clinical Technologist
Desirable
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Immediately contribute to the Clinical Engineering services of MEMD including acceptance testing repair, planned maintenance, and condemnation. Acting as an independent practitioner, they must therefore possess the knowledge and skills required for registered clinical technologist status
- Clinical application of medical devices
- Basic understanding of anatomy and physiology
- Understanding of physiological measurement techniques
- Specialist medical device testing systems
- Awareness and understanding of medical device management principles
- A range knowledge and skills in using computer technology both for general use and in medical device applications
- Advance engineering and workshop skills
- Communication/interpersonal skills, commensurate with effective team working and liaison with clinical and professional colleagues
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BEng in electronics/clinical engineering or relevant equivalent
- Candidates with the lower qualification would be taken on via Annex 21 in a training role to reach this minimum level.
- Specialist knowledge through post-graduate diploma, specialist equipment training and experience or equivalent
Further Training
Essential
- Will have attended a range of manufacturer's technical training courses
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of planned maintenance, repairs and acceptance testing to a wide range of medical devices and a minimum of three years experience of medical device maintenance
Desirable
- Experience working within Healthcare Environment
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Registered Clinical Technologist
Desirable
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Immediately contribute to the Clinical Engineering services of MEMD including acceptance testing repair, planned maintenance, and condemnation. Acting as an independent practitioner, they must therefore possess the knowledge and skills required for registered clinical technologist status
- Clinical application of medical devices
- Basic understanding of anatomy and physiology
- Understanding of physiological measurement techniques
- Specialist medical device testing systems
- Awareness and understanding of medical device management principles
- A range knowledge and skills in using computer technology both for general use and in medical device applications
- Advance engineering and workshop skills
- Communication/interpersonal skills, commensurate with effective team working and liaison with clinical and professional colleagues
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
