Job summary
W're looking for a dynamic, motivated and flexible individual to be part of a professional team maintaining and repairing medical devices within East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust based at Ipswich Hospital and the local community.
You must possess an electronic background with medical device technology certification or equivalent training and experience. You will need to be able to work on your own initiative, have good interpersonal skills and a developed ability to communicate well.
This vacancy may close early if application numbers are high, so early application is advised.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to perform preventative maintenance, repair electromechanical devices, perform installations and calibrate equipment. In addition, you will to keep computerised service logs and report service issues to supervisors to ensure that equipment is maintained in accordance with compliance standards.
You will be required to work in the many areas of the Electro-Medical Engineering Department providing a top quality service to the wards and departments.
About us
One of the largest Trusts in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.
If you want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Find out about living and working with us -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide clinical technical services for servicing, inspection and repair with the aim of ensuring the safety, accuracy and reliability of a wide range of patient-critical medical equipment.
- Communicate with clinical users to gain a clear understanding of the nature of problems with equipment. Assess the seriousness and implications of the problem and respond appropriately to the urgency of the user request.
- Undertake fault finding. Apply suitable fault finding techniques to diagnose problems. Report unusual fault conditions to manufacturers. Exercise judgement to determine the causes of faults in devices with inter-related systems (e.g. electronic, computer and mechanical systems.
- Rectify equipment faults. Undertake repairs on mechanisms to component level.
- Check that equipment performs to manufacturers specification.
- Carry out calibration, quality control and safety testing.
- Carry out electrical and functional safety checks.
- Advise on equipment specification, evaluation and selection.
- Logging and supervision of loan, rented or hired equipment.
- Liaise with manufacturers to obtain information and provide feedback on equipment performance.
- The procurement of parts and services on the departments financial cost centre, following the Trusts guidelines. This will sometimes include negotiation/persuasion, for example when obtaining loan equipment or free of charge replacements.
- Evaluation of new medical/test equipment, leading to the subsequent acceptance of the equipment by the department.
- Ensuring the safe disposal of condemned items/waste as per regulations (WEE, RoHS etc) and Trust policies.
- Ensuring the calibration of workshop tools/test equipment to be able to ensure the calibration of repaired/PPMd medical devices.
- Plan and prioritise own workload.
- Confirming that the work carried out by contractors is of a satisfactory level before the equipment is returned for use.
- Compiling and maintaining a written and computerised register of medical equipment, including but not restricted to, scientific and technical records of work performed, device details, relevant specifications, location, and technical history including all test results that are generated. In particular ensure the equipment information is maintained in an accurate, methodical manner with work being logged as it progresses until completion.
- Action as appropriate NHS or manufacturers safety and hazard notices.
- Be familiar with and follow the trusts incident reporting procedure notifying the Section Head of any circumstances or clinical incidents involving any medical device.
- Investigation into the probable cause of equipment failure after an incident, leading to the operation of the Defect and Failure Report procedure when necessary. This will include compiling a detailed report for the MHRA (Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) and the MDSO (Medical Device Safety Officer).
- Communicating technical information of a complex nature to colleagues/suppliers relating to the use of equipment and fault symptoms/remedies. This information might also be passed onto the user
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide clinical technical services for servicing, inspection and repair with the aim of ensuring the safety, accuracy and reliability of a wide range of patient-critical medical equipment.
- Communicate with clinical users to gain a clear understanding of the nature of problems with equipment. Assess the seriousness and implications of the problem and respond appropriately to the urgency of the user request.
- Undertake fault finding. Apply suitable fault finding techniques to diagnose problems. Report unusual fault conditions to manufacturers. Exercise judgement to determine the causes of faults in devices with inter-related systems (e.g. electronic, computer and mechanical systems.
- Rectify equipment faults. Undertake repairs on mechanisms to component level.
- Check that equipment performs to manufacturers specification.
- Carry out calibration, quality control and safety testing.
- Carry out electrical and functional safety checks.
- Advise on equipment specification, evaluation and selection.
- Logging and supervision of loan, rented or hired equipment.
- Liaise with manufacturers to obtain information and provide feedback on equipment performance.
- The procurement of parts and services on the departments financial cost centre, following the Trusts guidelines. This will sometimes include negotiation/persuasion, for example when obtaining loan equipment or free of charge replacements.
- Evaluation of new medical/test equipment, leading to the subsequent acceptance of the equipment by the department.
- Ensuring the safe disposal of condemned items/waste as per regulations (WEE, RoHS etc) and Trust policies.
- Ensuring the calibration of workshop tools/test equipment to be able to ensure the calibration of repaired/PPMd medical devices.
- Plan and prioritise own workload.
- Confirming that the work carried out by contractors is of a satisfactory level before the equipment is returned for use.
- Compiling and maintaining a written and computerised register of medical equipment, including but not restricted to, scientific and technical records of work performed, device details, relevant specifications, location, and technical history including all test results that are generated. In particular ensure the equipment information is maintained in an accurate, methodical manner with work being logged as it progresses until completion.
- Action as appropriate NHS or manufacturers safety and hazard notices.
- Be familiar with and follow the trusts incident reporting procedure notifying the Section Head of any circumstances or clinical incidents involving any medical device.
- Investigation into the probable cause of equipment failure after an incident, leading to the operation of the Defect and Failure Report procedure when necessary. This will include compiling a detailed report for the MHRA (Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) and the MDSO (Medical Device Safety Officer).
- Communicating technical information of a complex nature to colleagues/suppliers relating to the use of equipment and fault symptoms/remedies. This information might also be passed onto the user
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of interruptions for emergency repairs during daily concentration on routine work.
- Practical experience in medical electronic engineering workshop practices and techniques or equivalent including maintenance, servicing, inspection, repair, calibration, quality control, safety testing and acceptance testing.
- Able to prioritise and manage own workload.
Desirable
- EBME background
- Experience in repairing a variety of medical electronic equipment.
Qualifications
Essential
- C&G/ONC/HNC in Electronic\Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
Desirable
- HND/Degree in Electronic Medical Engineering, or equivalent.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of electronic workshop practice and associated computer systems.
- Knowledge of device support including electronic, electro-mechanical, computing and medical devices.
Desirable
- Attended service/maintenance courses held by medical companies.
Personal Skills
Essential
- Skills for analysing and diagnosing faults in equipment.
- Skills for use of precision/fine tools/ instruments including dexterity, co-ordination, sensory and speed.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of interruptions for emergency repairs during daily concentration on routine work.
- Practical experience in medical electronic engineering workshop practices and techniques or equivalent including maintenance, servicing, inspection, repair, calibration, quality control, safety testing and acceptance testing.
- Able to prioritise and manage own workload.
Desirable
- EBME background
- Experience in repairing a variety of medical electronic equipment.
Qualifications
Essential
- C&G/ONC/HNC in Electronic\Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
Desirable
- HND/Degree in Electronic Medical Engineering, or equivalent.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of electronic workshop practice and associated computer systems.
- Knowledge of device support including electronic, electro-mechanical, computing and medical devices.
Desirable
- Attended service/maintenance courses held by medical companies.
Personal Skills
Essential
- Skills for analysing and diagnosing faults in equipment.
- Skills for use of precision/fine tools/ instruments including dexterity, co-ordination, sensory and speed.
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).
