Specialist Medical Engineering Technician - Practitioner
| Posting date: | 21 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 August 2025 |
| Location: | Sutton, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7254459/214-CSTO-7254459 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Join Our Dynamic Multi-Disciplinary Team!
Are you ready to take the next step in your career within a forward-thinking and supportive environment? We’re offering an exciting opportunity to become part of our Clinical/Technical services team within MEMD, where your enthusiasm and technical skills will make a real difference.
As a valued team member, you’ll:
• Contribute to the planned maintenance, repair support, acceptance, and condemnation of a wide range of medical equipment.
• Play a key role in the servicing of community-deployed sleep therapy/CPAP devices within our Respiratory Clinic.
• Work within a department that is ISO 9001:2015 certified by the British Standards Institution, ensuring high standards and continuous improvement.
What We’re Looking For:
• A BEng in Electronics or an equivalent Level qualification.
• A passion for learning and the ability to absorb technical knowledge quickly.
• A proactive approach to gaining broad experience in medical equipment maintenance.
What You’ll Gain:
The opportunity to progress through the MEMD competence profile.
Access to manufacturer-led training courses on complex medical devices.
A chance to work in a team that values innovation, quality, and professional development.
This post is responsible for their own caseload leading the technical maintenance of highly complex medical devices across at least one complete clinical service. This includes governance aspects such as supporting device replacement introductions, contributing to end-user training, workshop technical investigation of patient safety incidents etc
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9thApril, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
This advert closes on Saturday 2 Aug 2025
Join Our Dynamic Multi-Disciplinary Team!
Are you ready to take the next step in your career within a forward-thinking and supportive environment? We’re offering an exciting opportunity to become part of our Clinical/Technical services team within MEMD, where your enthusiasm and technical skills will make a real difference.
As a valued team member, you’ll:
• Contribute to the planned maintenance, repair support, acceptance, and condemnation of a wide range of medical equipment.
• Play a key role in the servicing of community-deployed sleep therapy/CPAP devices within our Respiratory Clinic.
• Work within a department that is ISO 9001:2015 certified by the British Standards Institution, ensuring high standards and continuous improvement.
What We’re Looking For:
• A BEng in Electronics or an equivalent Level qualification.
• A passion for learning and the ability to absorb technical knowledge quickly.
• A proactive approach to gaining broad experience in medical equipment maintenance.
What You’ll Gain:
The opportunity to progress through the MEMD competence profile.
Access to manufacturer-led training courses on complex medical devices.
A chance to work in a team that values innovation, quality, and professional development.
This post is responsible for their own caseload leading the technical maintenance of highly complex medical devices across at least one complete clinical service. This includes governance aspects such as supporting device replacement introductions, contributing to end-user training, workshop technical investigation of patient safety incidents etc
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9thApril, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
This advert closes on Saturday 2 Aug 2025
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