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Clinical Engineering Technician
| Posting date: | 27 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,970.00 to £36,483.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £29970.00 - £36483.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 February 2025 |
| Location: | Chichester, PO19 6SE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9279-25-0166 |
Summary
Provide technical services for preventative maintenance, servicing, calibration, inspection, and repair to a wide range of complex and patient-connected medical equipment. Including life support and life saving devices under all conditions of urgency. 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, including those beyond the scope of manufacturer supplied information. Report unusual fault conditions to manufacturers. Exercise judgement to determine the causes of faults in devices with multiple complex and inter-related systems (e.g., electronic, computer and mechanical systems), which may be due to user error, equipment failure or environmental issues (e.g., temperature, humidity, radio frequency). Rectify equipment faults. Undertake repairs on complex electrical/electronic and mechanical devices to circuit component level if necessary. The post holder will be required manage all work that they are given or are required to plan. This will be carried out using the post holders own discretion, following existing departmental/NHS policies and procedures. The post holder will work individually or as part of a multi-disciplinary team, using a full range of facilities to gather information (For example: Medical Equipment database, external manufacturers, MHRA, NPSA) in order to work within and around competing service demands. It will be expected for the post holder to actively promote and influence any service improvements that may be necessary to the department or to help with other colleagues activities. Check that equipment performs to manufacturers specification. Carry out calibration, quality control, safety, and acceptance testing. Carry out electrical and functional safety checks. Organise and manage planned maintenance schedules as required Using technical and clinical experience, identify potentially hazardous symptoms and faults when in clinical areas or in talking to clinical staff. Liaise with clinical and other technical staff to carry out planned preventative maintenance. Schedules adjusted in response to clinical needs as appropriate. Advise on equipment specification, evaluation, and selection. Monitor stocks of appropriate components and spares, reordering where necessary to keep an adequate stock