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Specialist Medical Equipment Engineer | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £54,320 - £60,981 per annum incl. HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 November 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EH |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6681927/196-LIS8959 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Medical Equipment Engineer to join a leading central London teaching hospital Trust, providing vital support for medical technology.
As a Specialist Engineer, you will take the lead in the maintenance and calibration of various medical equipment across the Trust. This includes overseeing and planning tasks to ensure high standards of safety, accountability, and professionalism. Key responsibilities include managing equipment inventory and maintenance records, as well as offering expert technical advice on purchasing, replacement planning, service contracts, and supplier management. Applicants with experience in supporting ultrasound scanners or surgical/operating theatre equipment are especially encouraged to apply.
Medical Physics provides a comprehensive range of scientific and technical services to all of the Trust’s main acute and community sites. The core purpose of the Medical Equipment Management Services (MEMS) Section, in which this post is based, is provision of repair, calibration and maintenance to a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic medical equipment, to ensure equipment operates effectively and safely with a minimum of downtime. Our MEMS service are spread across multiple sites, our main hospital sites at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ (London) and our offsite logistics facility in Dartford. This opportunity will support operational activities across our workshops sites and you may be required to work at a different site depending on the work demand.
Applicants will be expected to have a genuine affinity to the Trust’s values; High standards of spoken and written communication and interpersonal skills will be an advantage, as well as some understanding of the modern healthcare environment.
This post would be ideally suited to an applicant able to motivate themselves from an interest in getting involved in the operations and productivity of an acute hospitals trust and having a concern for the quality of support delivered to frontline clinical services.
Successful applicants will also need to be able to occasionally work flexibly outside conventional working hours; where such demand arises.
The post is one of a number in the MEMS Section. The Post-holder will carry out planned servicing, repair, calibration, and acceptance on a wide range of medical equipment and is required to work to high standards of safety and accountability. The Post-holder leads on oversight and delivery of maintenance and calibration of specific populations of
medical equipment Trust wide, as assigned. They are responsible for
maintenance and inventory records and provide expert technical input on management to other staff to inform maintenance, purchase and replacement planning and use.
The Post-holder will also carry out repairs and troubleshooting on equipment, liaising with clinical and technical staff to identify faults, sometimes working in clinical areas and/or directly with manufacturers.
The over-riding purpose of all medical technical support roles is to ensure continued safety and productivity for the Trust. For this post, this includes an obligation for the post-holder to take part in continuous review of activity to ensure that the most appropriate technical support with the right priorities is being delivered within available resources, driving their own learning if need be.
This post includes a requirement to work “anti-social hours” overnight or at weekends
This advert closes on Thursday 24 Oct 2024