Job summary
About the position
Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust are seeking to appoint a Clinical Engineering expert, professionally registered as either a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer, or Clinical Scientist to lead its medical device service. The post holder will provide the Trust with strong leadership and strategic direction in the field of medical engineering and medical device management.
Medical engineering is a highly specialised clinical scientific service concerned with providing safe, and effective medical device management to clinical users of patient connected diagnostic and therapeutic medical equipment throughout the Trust. The service is delivered by a specialist team engaged in overseeing all aspects of medical equipment management, which spans planning, evaluation, selection, commissioning and operating life, and maintenance through to safe, ethical disposal, and replacement. Therefore, comprehensive practical knowledge; relevant qualifications and management skills; technical expertise of managing such services working with highly specialised medical devices and multi-disciplinary teams across the organisation are fundamental to this position.
Main duties of the job
Provide leadership in the highly specialised field of Medical Engineering Management within Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust.
The role of the Medical Engineer is to support and advance patient care and safety by applying engineering and managerial skills to healthcare technology. The Head of Medical Engineering leads the services provided by the Medical Engineering Department to ensure compliance of Medical Devices to external standards within the regulatory environment (eg CQC regulation 15). The Head of Medical Engineering is the professional and technical lead for strategic development of Medical Devices services, including policy, compliance, training and development of replacement programmes, and has overall responsibility for the maintenance, reliability, and accuracy of the medical device records database for the Trust, Integrated Care System (ICS) and healthcare partners, the service provided holds a direct relationship with patient care.
About us
About the Trust
Employing more than 6,000 people, and hundreds of colleagues and students from other organisations, the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales.
Encompassing some of the most picturesque parts of England and Wales, the Trust's catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west, to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east.
The Trust is on an improvement journey, with a range of new build projects and an ambitious Hospital Transformation Programme underway to modernise our facilities and infrastructure to delivery better care for our communities, making this an exciting time to join the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.
Person Specification
Registration
Essential
- Engineering Council registration to Incorporated (IEng) or Chartered Engineer (CEng)
- Registered Clinical Scientist
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate qualification/MSc in Engineering or relevant technical or scientific subject
- Honours degree (minimum 2ii) or equivalent in Engineering/Physics or allied subject
- Honours degree Management Qualification or equivalent experience
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
Essential
- Highly developed specialist knowledge in clinical engineering underpinned by theory and experience.
- Experience of managing a multidisciplinary team, including biomedical engineers, renal and clinical technologists
- Extensive knowledge of the full range of advanced medical technology in an acute NHS Trust Practical experience of reporting and presenting to Executive level meetings and senior management
- Management of people including staff recruitment, discipline and development
- Management and delivery of programme of medical device replacement
- Managing capital and revenue budgets in compliance with NHS Finance and SFI's
- Medical device safety through and MDSO role
- Extensive knowledge and experience of external regulations as relevant to medical devices
Person Specification
Registration
Essential
- Engineering Council registration to Incorporated (IEng) or Chartered Engineer (CEng)
- Registered Clinical Scientist
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate qualification/MSc in Engineering or relevant technical or scientific subject
- Honours degree (minimum 2ii) or equivalent in Engineering/Physics or allied subject
- Honours degree Management Qualification or equivalent experience
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
Essential
- Highly developed specialist knowledge in clinical engineering underpinned by theory and experience.
- Experience of managing a multidisciplinary team, including biomedical engineers, renal and clinical technologists
- Extensive knowledge of the full range of advanced medical technology in an acute NHS Trust Practical experience of reporting and presenting to Executive level meetings and senior management
- Management of people including staff recruitment, discipline and development
- Management and delivery of programme of medical device replacement
- Managing capital and revenue budgets in compliance with NHS Finance and SFI's
- Medical device safety through and MDSO role
- Extensive knowledge and experience of external regulations as relevant to medical devices
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).
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
