Job summary
- Main area
- Medical Device Training Lead
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 396-NN-6466907-HS-Z
- Employer
- Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingston Hospital
- Town
- Kingston upon Thames
- Salary
- £49,178 - £55,492 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Medical Devices Training Lead
Band 7
Kingston Hospital - First Acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country – close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.
We employ just under 5000 staff who proudly and efficiently support over 350,000 people locally through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and we have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare, particularly in 'patient-focused' care, day surgery and maternity services.
The South West London Collaborative Bank
Kingston Hospital is a part of the local South West London Collaborative and offer competitive bank rates to work across the three NHS trusts: St Georges, Kingston Hospital and Epsom & St Helier. Our Smart App booking system makes life easier for flexible working!
Health and Wellbeing & Staff Benefits
The Trust understands that benefits go beyond just financial rewards and invests heavily in the wellbeing of its staff. Alongside opportunities for career development, there is a dedicated team of Staff Pastoral Wellbeing Practitioners who work with the Clinical and Corporate divisions, to provide pastoral support to all staff. These Practitioners are part of the wider Health & Wellbeing provision which includes a specialist Staff Physiotherapist, Occupational Health and access to counselling and an Employee Assistance Programme. The team works together to enhance staff wellbeing and to promote a healthy work-life balance.
Recent awards:
- Our Health Heroes Awards 2018 – Staff Retention and Wellbeing Employer of the Year
- HPMA Vivup Award for Well Being 2019
- NHSE National Healthcare Support Worker Award for Innovation and Excellence in Pastoral Support – 2023
- NHSE London Healthcare Support Worker Award for Sustainable Retention Initiative – 2023
Trust Values
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:
- Caring – Design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.
- Safe – Make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern as safety comes first
- Responsible – All staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
- Value Each Other – Value each other's contribution
- Inspiring - We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients
Job overview
The Clinical Engineering Department is responsible for the provision of comprehensive medical equipment management services to Kingston Hospital and HRCH and this role is responsible for, the management, leadership and co-ordination of the Medical Devices Training over both organizations. To initiate the implementation of Medical Device training programme to ensure training, competency and accurate records are undertaken within departments.
Main duties of the job
To design, implement, deliver and oversee systems to continually evaluate a competency based medical devices training strategy to meet the requirement of Trust polices, professional requirements, CQC regulatory standards, Risk Management Standards, Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts and Health and Safety Legislation. To liaise and work closely with the Medical Device Committee, Nursing Directorate, Risk Management and Procurement departments to facilitate and support effective standardisation of Medical Devices and identify and reduce risks associated with Medical Devices. To support the Education Centre training team with other tasks when required.
Working for our organisation
The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred and which puts safety first and where all staff members take responsibility, are valued and value each other.
To support this, our five values are that we are all:
Caring – we design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.
Safe – we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first).
Responsible – all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation.
Inspiring – we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients.
Value each other – we all value each other’s contribution.
Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by Living Our Values Every day.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Clinical Engineering Department is responsible for the provision of comprehensive medical equipment management services to Kingston Hospital and HRCH and this role is responsible for, the management, leadership and coordination of the Medical Devices Training over both organizations. To initiate the implementation of Medical Device training programme to ensure training, competency and accurate records are undertaken within departments. To design, implement, deliver and oversee systems to continually evaluate a competency based medical devices training strategy to meet the requirement of Trust polices, professional requirements, CQC regulatory standards, Risk Management Standards, Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts and Health and Safety Legislation. To liaise and work closely with the Medical Device Committee, Nursing Directorate, Risk Management and Procurement departments to facilitate and support effective standardisation of Medical Devices and identify and reduce risks associated with Medical Devices. To support the Education Centre training team with other tasks when required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • First Degree in Biomedical Engineering or Physics or equivalent level of knowledge and experience in management and use of medical devices. • Evidence of Continuous Professional Development.
- • Minimum of 5 years experience, to include management/ leadership experience. • Practical experience teaching small groups and multi-professional teams. • Can lead change and is able to demonstrate implementation of new ways of working within the team. • Experience of using competency assessment frameworks • Experience of implementation and delivery of Quality management System
Desirable criteria
- • Leadership training. • Experience with the management of spreadsheets and/or databases and PowerPoint.
- • Facilitation of inter-professional learning. • Formal presentations to large groups
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrable negotiating and influencing skills. • Assertiveness skills • Team player who can initiate, delegate and complete projects. • Experience of supporting individuals and teams to achieve objectives of the organisation. • Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse complex problems/situations and ensure effective interventions are put in place. • Deal effectively with clinical issues within defined procedures/guidelines. • Participation in audit and/or research projects. • Evidence of data collection, evaluation and analysis • Can plan short and long term objectives. • Ability to lead and remodel professional development and education programmes across the Trust.• Experience of audit management. • Planning training and education programmes in a range of subjects. • Able to move/lift relevant teaching aids and materials as necessary for the delivery of educational programmes. • Keyboard skills.
- • Understanding of, CNST, CQC, MHRA requirements. • Knowledge of current training and assessment methods.
Desirable criteria
- • Coaching skills. • Able to present and receive complex information to a multi-professional audience. • Experience in prioritisation of training needs data and prioritising training resources. • Experience of project management • Experience of operational management and leadership • Experience of strategic planning and evaluation.
- • Ability to undertake other physically demanding duties as required by the role.
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
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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
- Maryam Mirjafari
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Digital-Medical Technology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8934 2392
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