Job summary
- Main area
- Medical Equipment Technician
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Additional out of hours working may be required)
- Job ref
- 156-6332528
- Employer
- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Treliske
- Town
- Truro
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Medical Equipment Librarian
Band 3
Job overview
We are looking for a highly motivated person to assist in the provision of Medical Equipment Library services. This post will involve occasional travel to West Cornwall and St Michael’s hospitals to deliver/retrieve medical devices. The purpose of this post is to ensure the efficient and effective management of the Medical Equipment Library services across 3 sites. The post holder will offer effective, customer-friendly service provision to wards and clinical departments, ensuring prompt and accurate responses to requests for equipment, advice and technical support. Control and ordering of specialist dressing products together with ensuring the Trust has adequate mattress provision.
The post holder will be expected to work as an integral part of the Clinical Technology team whilst working closely with Medical Device Technicians, as well as liaising with external manufacturers, and organising staff to ensure adequate Library coverage is always in place. The post holder will also represent the Library as a mobile “front of house” function, being the team’s liaison with wards/departments to proactively seek medical devices that require maintenance and swap out with other devices or liaising to ensure maintenance arrangements are in place and ensuring best use is made of in-team technical ability. The post holder will decontaminate medical equipment prior to inspecting the equipment.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
Coordinate, deliver and collect medical equipment library resources and service provision across the three hospital sites.
Input to a bespoke work recording and asset management system for work carried out, devices provided to wards and consumables.
Work according to the policies and procedures of the Trust, particularly concerning medical device management, infection control and decontamination.
Flexible working will be required as the role involves out-of-hours and weekend work.
Working for our organisation
This is for one full-time post working 37.5 hours per week,
The Department of Clinical Technology (DCT) manages the maintenance of medical devices for RCHT and CFT, The Medical Equipment Library which is a team within DCT provides selected medical devices and consumables to wards and departments across the 3 RCHT sites.
DCT team members are expected to be forward thinking and innovative, can demonstrate a proven track record in supporting change and service improvement, are flexible and adaptable with excellent communication and organizational skills but most importantly, have unlimited enthusiasm
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust is a patient centred organisation delivering high quality healthcare to the community. In the pursuit of excellence, we are committed to providing an environment which is responsive to the needs of patients, staff, learners and visitors, while maintaining our core values.
Sustainability is integral to the Trust achieving the NHS Net Zero target. All staff are therefore actively encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working within their field of expertise.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click the supporting document on the right-hand side
To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:
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Identity Checks
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Professional registration and qualification checks
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Employment history and reference checks
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Work health assessments
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Criminal record check standards
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Right to work checks
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Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about any flexible working arrangements you would prefer or require. While we may not be able to fully accommodate all requests, such requests will not be referenced during the interview scoring process, and we will fully consider and try to accommodate them for successful applicants.
We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- GCSE pass grade c or above or recognised equivalent: Maths, English, 1 other
Desirable criteria
- It qualification, (e.g., European computer driving license)
IT Skills
Essential criteria
- Competent with Microsoft Office or equivalant
Desirable criteria
- Used and familiar with Work Recording and Asset Management systems
Communication
Essential criteria
- Evidence of Good communication Skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to communicate technical issues faults and resolution effectively
- Ability to communicate and understand basic medical terminology
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Matthew Sparkes
- Job title
- Engineering/Medical Equipment Library team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01872 253460
- Additional information
Serena Woods, 01872 253049, [email protected]
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