Specialist Medical Engineering Technician
Full Time: 37.5 hours
As part of a multi-disciplinary team of specialist medical engineers, your duties will include the commissioning and acceptance testing of new medical devices, carrying out planned maintenance, repairs, fault finding and electrical safety testing on medical equipment of a highly complex nature.
Equipment includes: life support, patient monitoring, patient therapy, diagnostic, ventilatory and anaesthetic equipment which at times may be connected to a patient.
You will be required to work without supervision and conduct diagnostic procedures.
You will take responsibility for the supervision of junior medical engineering staff under your technical control, and the supervision of contract staff carrying out maintenance on Trust premises; these staff could be working with highly complex medical equipment.
You will be required to provide training to nurses, clinical and care staff in the safe use of medical equipment, and keep appropriate records.
You will also be required to participate in an on-call rota providing emergency 24-hour cover to Life support ventilation in Spinal Injuries Unit, ITU and Home Based Patients (HBPs). HBP’s medical devices are located on premises outside of the Acute Trust, in HBPs’ homes.
All staff will be expected to work in any site location around the Trust, to meet the demands of the service.
Technical/Specialist Knowledge
1.1 Technical expertise across a broad range of medical devices and utilise specialist knowledge within a designated field of medical device technology. This specialist engineering knowledge will be gained through formal qualifications (HNC or above), attendance at Manufacturer approved training courses, self study, continuing professional development and practical experience of maintaining and repairing highly complex medical equipment.
1.2 Attend training courses and update individual technical knowledge of specialist equipment and knowledge in respect of specialised clinical use of such equipment. To disseminate this information to the relevant healthcare specialists as required
1.3 Attend mandatory training, to enable the Trust to meet its obligations under its policies and legislation. The post holder will identify personal and departmental training and development delivery needs.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached.
Please be aware that we may close a vacancy earlier thanstated should a sufficient number of applications be received,you are therefore advised to apply at your earliest convenience.
This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Oct 2024
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