Head of Medical Device Services

Job summary

Have you worked with medical equipment in either a clinical or engineering capacity? Have you got experience of managing a complex service?

The NCA are looking for a motivated individual to support our highly skilled Medical Device Services Leads in providing safe use and availability of medical equipment for patients. We achieve this through training, maintenance and repair, innovation design and manufacture of bespoke devices and library services.

The right candidate will understand what patients and clinical teams need from medical device services and be able to manage those changing requirements.

They will ensure that the multi-professional team of staff reflects the skill mix requirements of the services and are managed within a framework which deploys them effectively to provide reliable operational services.

The NCA Medical Device Services are currently developing some exciting and pioneering ways of working to meet the changing patterns of health care delivery. The successful candidate will therefore need to command respect of senior clinical, managerial, and professional staff to enthuse others in service improvements. Additionally, they will need to cope with challenges associated with change management. We are looking for someone innovative, with an excellent track record of managing services at a senior level with excellent understanding of budgeting and finance management.

Main duties of the job

Lead medical device related activities across divisions to ensure that the medical device services remain responsive to the needs of patients and clinical care.

Provide the primary, specialist interface between the Trust and external contacts/regulators for all medical equipment issues across the NCA Group.

Act as the NCA authority for clinical incidents involving medical device related harm and death.

Lead senior team meetings and instil a culture of open communication and constructive dialogue within and across teams.

Act as NCA Lead, responsible for ensuring that a technical advice, guidance and communication systems, relating to all adverse incident reports for medical devices failure/compliance, is in place.

Analyse FSNs and medical device related Patient Safety Alerts (PSA) to determine all of the complexities and implications. Lead, plan and provide guidance and processes across the NCA to ensure actions are sufficiently and transparently managed, recorded and reported within the required timescales.

Be responsible for Medical Device Services' business continuity plans

Develop action plans to provide assurance of compliance with CQC, PAM and other regulatory bodies in relation to medical devices.

Develop and maintain a detailed replacement plan, forecasting needs up to five years ahead.

Develop policies to provide guidance to operational users, trainers and managers, in the safe use of medical devices.

Analyse service performance and action plan to achieve KPIs

About us

Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world's first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.