Medical Engineer - Chorley and South Ribble Hospital
Job overview
Who wouldn’t want to join an established team working from Chorley and South Ribble hospital who strive to provide an excellent standard of service throughout community clinics and health centres within east Lancashire and the Fylde coast , giving something back and helping ensure our patient care and safety is the best it can be?
Well, that’s exactly what we are offering you here in Medical Engineering. We need to grow our team and we want you to apply to join us and help with that growth.
We are looking for Medical Engineers with experience in this field. You should have skills such as dexterity, problem solving approach, electrical/electronic engineering knowledge and experience, ability to diagnose and fix electrical/electronic Medical devices.
We rely on all our team members to help contribute to the development of our service, in fact, it’s how we can be so confident that our team really is the best at what it does. The team work, camaraderie and commitment shown by everyone is second to none.
You will be dynamic and motivated by what you do with strong interpersonal skills that will really make a positive impact on the challenges faced by our team. Even though we are a strong team, you will work autonomously, making decisions every day, doing what you need to do and giving advice to the wider team, clinical teams and ensuring patient safety.
A full UK Driving Licence is essential role this role.
Main duties of the job
It’s fair to say this job is varied and will keep you on your toes. Sometimes the role will be tough, you will be rushed off your feet and you will need to react quickly to changing priorities. Other times, it’s more steady and you can do planned activity in a more methodical way – but if the need arises, you can soon be on your way to a ward or department to sort a problem to keep everything flowing as effectively as possible.Our patient care is the best it can be because of the responsive service we provide to servicing and fixing the machines and pieces of equipment, overcoming challenges and finding solutions which our hospital colleagues so rely on.
You will provide a full range of medical device management and maintenance services to all clinical locations throughout our Hospitals. You will have an eye for detail and understand the importance of accurately updating the medical equipment management database.We can train you on all our processes and procedures and we have years of experience and a wealth of knowledge right across the team so you will soon be up to speed.
You’ll be proactive to help us ensure our service is the best it can be by being focussed on best practice and by highlighting any process that could be improved. Continually improving our ISO 9001:2015 accredited department via internal and external audit is so important to us, ensuring ongoing compliance with the Quality Management Standard.
Working for our organisation
We’ve tried to portray that this is a busy department but that it is an ideal opportunity for you if you thrive in this kind of fast-paced technical environment. We’re busy, frequently working to tight timescales and juggling multiple priorities – but for the right candidate, we know this will make the role even more rewarding.
So what can we offer you? Well, as well as working for our ISO 9001:2015 accredited department, you will be joining a very strong and dedicated team who work hard together and have fun along the way. We will help you develop your skills; give you opportunities to work on a wide range of medical devices.
You will also, meet so many different people all playing different roles within our hospitals, no two days will be the same so being bored at work won’t be something you ever have to contend with. We use an increasingly wide range of medical equipment in order to deliver our healthcare services, so there will always be something new and different to learn.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Of course, it’s hard to cram everything into one advert and we are sure you will have a question or two, so why not have a chat with us? You can contact us by dropping an email to Linu George and arranging a good time to have a chat and find out much more about our world here in Medical Engineering:
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Don’t just take our word for it, there’s loads of information available on the NHS careers website, just visit your internet search bar and type ‘medical engineering NHS’.
Detailed JD and Main Responsibilities:
- Communicate and develop relationships with a range of organisations and technical and clinical staff on adverse incidents and investigations.
- Explain the possible configurations of users’ computer / microprocessor based equipment and configure it to operate appropriately and safely for their areas/tasks
- Develop relationships with medical equipment manufacturers and suppliers so as to obtain best value and quality with the supply of products and services
- Liaise with external contractors to request repairs and repair quotations
- Communicate efficiently with, and offer advice on medical equipment to, staff at all levels within the Trust
- Prioritise and negotiate with other Health Care Professionals in obtaining access to medical equipment for maintenance.
- Brief clinical staff across the Trust in the function, operation and day-to-day maintenance of medical equipment.
- Support colleagues by providing them with technical information and training on devices where appropriate and passing on information gained from technical and clinical courses where required
- Undertake CPD to update own technical and clinical knowledge relating to medical equipment and its use
- Be aware of, and contribute to, Health, Safety and Security of self and others. Act independently, safely, promptly and efficiently in all situations with patients, colleagues and contractors.
- Take appropriate precautions to ensure safety when working with heavy loads.
- Follow departmental guidelines to ensure safety when working on open live electrical equipment, equipment with high pressures, high voltage capacitors, dangerous mechanical parts, dangerous RF / microwave fields, powerful light / laser outputs, dangerous radiation levels or hazardous chemicals and on equipment in the patient environment.
- Organise the provision of loan equipment from service providers on occasions when repairs cannot be achieved within a desired time scale, or in incident situations, to enable patient services to be maintained.
- Contribute to and participate in regular meetings with Medical Engineering Management to improve departmental performance.
- When appropriate undertake project work
- Be involved in the creation and updating of complex written procedures for the performance and functional verification of medical devices.
- Work unsupervised to Professional Standards in compliance with Department of Health guidelines, relevant standards set by Regulatory Bodies and Departmental Procedures.
- Use technical expertise and clinical experience to identify potentially hazardous symptoms and faults and act to ensure safety. In conjunction with senior staff, report novel fault conditions to the manufacturers and the MHRA.
- Analyse the impact of equipment maintenance on service provision and work to minimise detrimental effects
- Be familiar with and follow the Trust’s reporting procedure for sickness, annual leave and flexi-time
- Carry out the regular maintenance, calibration, function checking and electrical safety testing of a range of complex medical equipment ensuring it is safe and complies with the manufacturer’s specification.
- Prioritise planned preventative maintenance and medical equipment breakdown requests with departmental colleagues to ensure that the overall maintenance plan is achieved and repairs are made as quickly and as efficiently as possible
- Acceptance test / commission new equipment ensuring that it is as ordered, is electrically safe, meets manufacturer’s specifications and MHRA guidelines and is appropriately CE marked.
- Function and electrically safety test equipment upon its return from external repair and before its release to users.
- Assess the seriousness and implications of reported problems and respond appropriately to the urgency of the user’s request. Ensure that the users receive a high quality, prompt and efficient service and are kept informed of the progress of on-going and outstanding work.
- Where necessary, use skills, knowledge and understanding of the clinical applications of medical devices to assist the user with potentially faulty equipment that may still be attached to the patient.
- Apply specialised fault finding techniques to diagnose complex problems and make repairs down to component level using expertise, precision engineering techniques and fine control of tools and small components.
- Take responsibility for all tools and specialised test equipment within the post holder’s care and assist in ensuring workshop facilities are kept clear and well ordered.
- Act as Duty Engineer when requested and attend to urgent repairs immediately, distribute demand repair work to colleague engineers and return completed equipment to users.
- Be familiar with software in computer based medical equipment systems and microprocessor based equipment so that faults can be accurately identified and corrected.
- Appraise loan equipment provided for evaluation and advise user during trials of appropriateness for purpose and future maintainability.
- Be responsible in the care, use and maintenance of vehicles as required, and in the safe delivery of devices by whatever means.
- Raise orders for spare parts, the dispatch of repairs and engineer call-out dealing with subsequent financial queries regarding price verification and delivery of goods and services
- Ensure that stocks of any components and spare parts used, do not fall below agreed levels
Person specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria- Comprehensive experience of record keeping on computer based systems.
- A contributor to teamwork and experience of working in teams, sharing experience, tasks and responsibility.
- Sound knowledge of basic scientific, technical and computing principles coupled with a practical disposition to fault finding.
- Knowledge of infection dangers from working on medical equipment.
- Knowledge and understanding of MMD 2014, CE marking, British / European standards for medical equipment and MHRA incident reporting systems.
- Sound knowledge of basic clinical, physiological, computing and Medical Engineering principles.
- Experience in the Health and Safety aspects of maintaining Medical Equipment and its use in a clinical setting.
- Familiarity with a range of medical equipment design, use, maintenance and repair procedures.
- Experience of mechanical / electrical design and manufacture
- Experience of working within a Quality System
- An understanding of basic anatomy and physiological signals, chemicals and homeostasis.
- Record keeping experience
- Lone working experience
- Work experience in community / primary settings
- Experience of working in an NHS organisation
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria- Professional electronics knowledge to degree equivalent level acquired through B Eng in electronics or HNC/D and short courses or equivalent training and experience
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Registered with the RCT/IPEM
- Electronics knowledge to ONC/HNC and short courses or equivalent training and experience
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