Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Engineering
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-7712-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern General Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £83,571 - £96,376 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/07/2024
Employer heading
Head of Clinical Engineering
NHS AfC: Band 8d
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
A unique opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, experienced engineer to lead our high profile Clinical Engineering Team.
We are looking for a talented individual with a proven record of success to manage our comprehensive Trust-wide medical equipment maintenance and management service and to lead our medical device innovation activities. The post-holder will lead a team of over 80 staff and will bring extensive experience gained either in an NHS or a relevant industrial background.
You will be responsible for ensuring that our Clinical Engineering services rank amongst the best in the country and for creating new opportunities for innovation for patient benefit.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a Chartered Engineer or registered Clinical Scientist with the ability to deliver excellent, strategic and operational leadership, and ideally with a combined experience of complex asset management and medical device development. You will have well-developed management skills and demonstrable ability to build and work within successful teams.
Our specialised medical equipment maintenance and management function is supported by a staff group of 70+, with a budget of £8.1M. It includes equipment ranging from basic monitoring to highly complex imaging and therapy equipment, with a value in excess of £100M. The post-holder will be responsible for the strategic planning of this service at organisational level. Our medical device innovation (MDI) workshops house complex electronic and mechanical equipment and services include innovative design and build, engineering and regulatory consultancy. We operate externally-audited Quality Management Systems, and as a leading centre, have a role in training the next generation of engineers.
The Trust hosts a highly successful NIHR HealthTech Research Centre (Devices for Dignity), which operates nationally and is supported by the MDI group. We also provide national leadership for 14 NIHR HealthTech Research Centres across England.
Working for our organisation
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust is one of the largest and most successful healthcare employers in the UK. We offer fantastic development opportunities and there are always exciting initiatives for enthusiastic professionals. The city, England’s greenest, is vibrant and friendly, boasts two universities and is located on the edge of the Peak District.
What you can expect from Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree-level knowledge/experience of leadership, strategy and management
- Honours degree (minimum 2ii) or equivalent in Engineering/Physics or an allied subject
- Postgraduate education to doctoral level in Engineering/Physics or a relevant subject area or equivalent experience
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
- HCPC registration as a Clinical Scientist or Chartered Engineer status
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience managing Complex Scientific and/or Engineering Services and engaging with and leading a team
- Extensive experience of senior professional leadership across a range of settings
- Demonstrable knowledge and implementation of HR processes
- Experience of workforce planning and recruitment and retention strategies, budget and resources
- Significant experience of managing budgets and financial resources, including the associated processes such as budget setting and financial planning
Desirable criteria
- Experience in the innovative design, development and construction of medical devices and laboratory equipment
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Operates and behaves in accordance with relevant legislation, guidance, policies and procedures designed to ensure governance and probity, including specifically within the field of Medical Devices, and takes steps to address any issues of non-compliance within areas of responsibility
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiating skills
- Has the drive and energy to make things happen and achieve outcomes
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to take a corporate approach to key issues
- Able to demonstrate successfully translating strategic planning into successful operational delivery
- Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on performance management information systems
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Prof Wendy Tindale
- Job title
- Scientific Director of Medical Physics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2712822
- Additional information
Informal enquiries are encouraged and should be arranged through Professor Wendy Tindale, Scientific Director of Medical Imaging & Medical Physics (0114 271 2822, [email protected]).
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