Job summary
- Main area
- Engineering
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: weekend on call
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (weekend on call)
- Job ref
- 393-NMUH-1528
- Employer
- North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North middlesex hospital
- Town
- Edmonton London
- Salary
- £32,720 - £39,769 per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 5 Medical Engineer
Band 5
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
This role is for a Band 5 Medical Engineer to join our Team and will be expected to provide technical and engineering support as part of the Clinical Engineering service across the Trust. Assist other technologists and engineers in locating and tracking devices, servicing of medical equipment, carrying out basic servicing and planned maintenance as well as first-line troubleshooting.
For the first six months; the successful candidate will be dedicated to the Medical Equipment Library Service to support the launch of the service and provide technical support, maintenance and servicing for all medical devices managed in the Library Service.
Main duties of the job
- Maintenance of registered devices in the Clinical Engineering database
- Support with technical, electrical, mechanical, integration, computer systems aligned with medical devices.
- Coordinate where appropriate maintenance of contracted medical devices as per service requirements.
- Work collaboratively as a Team in Clinical Engineering and across all interdependent areas accordingly
- Working off site will be required as part of the service
(Refer to the JD/PS documentation for a comprehensive list of Duties and Responsibilities)
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and driven individual to join our Clinical Engineering Team at North Middlesex Hospital. We are looking to welcome on board an individual who will work in accordance with our values to support the Clinical Engineering service to develop and grow the service at an exciting time of change and improvement. hospital. Further details are on the job description for a complete list of duties. A site visit is strongly recommended.
Please refer to the JD/PS document for a detailed description of the responsibilities in this role.
Person specification
essential and desirable
Essential criteria
- Relevant Degree in Electrical engineering/ medical engineering/ electronics.
- Worked in a clinical engineering service/ medical devices/ NHS Trust
- Demonstrated knowledge in medical devices/ servicing and maintenance
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of electrical and electronic servicing, EST principals.
- Electro- mechanical and computer systems. general knowledge in computer systems
- A practical experience in Medical engineering workshop practices and techniques with experience of medical management/maintenance of electro medical equipment
- Show evidence of understanding the requirements for working in clinical areas
- Experience in the calibration and maintenance of medical equipment
- Evidence of different models of equipment worked on
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Drushtee Ramah
- Job title
- Head of Clinical Engineering
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 887 2582
- Additional information
A site visit is strongly recommended.
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
WHT
- Telephone
- If you have any queries, please contact NLPSS Recruitment Helpdesk tel. 020 3758 2060
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