Clinical Technologist (Healthcare Science Practitioner)

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Job overview

The Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board’s Clinical Engineering Department delivers medical equipment management services throughout the Health Board.

The department provides a broad range of complex, routine and non-routine activities including planned preventive maintenance, repair, calibration, safety testing, quality assurance, evaluation, commissioning, decommissioning, of medical equipment.

We currently have a vacancy for a Band 5 Healthcare Science Practitioner / Clinical Technologist. The successful candidate will become part of a team, specialised in servicing, maintaining and managing a range of medical equipment based in Prince Charles Hospital, (although the post-holder will be expected to carry out his/her duties across the Health Board as necessary).

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide a medical technical service that will include the acceptance, test, repair, calibration and preventative maintenance of electrical, electronic, electro-medical, mechano-medical and medical gas equipment mainly at the Prince Charles Hospital and surrounding area.

On occasion there may requirement to travel to other sites within the UHB to assist with workload/schedules or for training purposes.

Will use various health board software packages in the course of their duty, such as recording of jobs for medical equipment, and stock/parts ordering and distribution.

Specific training on a range of medical devices will be provided. Computer literacy along with excellent team working and communication skills will be required.

This role does not have directly accessible patient/public contact in line with the service we provide. Therefore Welsh language skills are not generally needed for this post.; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one tea

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac

Person specification

Qualifications and/or Knowledge

• National Diploma in Clinical Technology or Electronic/Electrical Engineering or equivalent qualification and/or experience in Electronics/Clinical Engineering.
• Evidence of technical training and continuous professional development in relevant sphere.
• Awareness of Medical Device Management Guidance

• Relevant technical apprenticeship.

Experience

• Sufficient experience in a clinical engineering setting.
• Organisational, interpersonal and operational skills needed for post i.e. management of resources i.e. planning and delivery of service provision.
• Ability to produce written and verbal reports pertinent to the post i.e. technical documentation.

• Eligibility for membership of IPEM register of Clinical Technologists.

Aptitude and Abilities

• Proven organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to analyse, diagnose and repair faults to component level if necessary with excellent manual dexterity on electronic medical equipment.
• Able to demonstrate the ability to cope under pressure.

• Ability to demonstrate good standard of record keeping in line with quality standards.

Values

• The applicant must be motivated and possesses a non-judgemental attitude towards others.
• Works well both as an individual and as part of a team, always acting in a professional manner.
• Ability to work under own initiative and recognise boundaries of the role.

If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.