Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Engineering
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-7803-DIR-A
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern General Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 pa/ pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Clinical Technologist
NHS AfC: Band 3
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated person to join us as a Associate Clinical Engineer
You will work in a team that provides maintenance and repair to medical devices adhering to stringent quality standards.
Main duties of the job
Working within an ISO 9001 Quality Management System the post holder will provide basic maintenance to a range of medical devices. This work includes the acceptance, repairing of faults, maintenance, installation, and decommissioning of an ever-increasing range of medical devices. The service covers all the hospital sites in the Trust and community clinics throughout the Sheffield area.
Good team working and communication skills, and a full UK driving license are required.
Working for our organisation
The Directorate of Medical Imaging & Medical Physics (MIMP) is the largest Service Directorate within Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
Medical Physics employs 135 staff (35 scientists and 100 technical staff) providing a variety of scientific and clinical services to the Trust.
The Department of Medical Physics is divided into 6 sections each managed by a Section Head responsible to the Scientific Director. The Clinical Engineering Section is divided into three groups – Medical Device Management (MDM), Medical Device Innovation (MDI) and Medical Device Healthcare Projects (MDHP).
Medical Device Management (MDM).
MDM is the largest group with over 60 staff. This section provides a fully comprehensive, highly-specialised medical device maintenance and management service to the Trust.
MDM strategically plans this highly specialised medical device management service at an organisational level. Medical device types range from basic monitoring devices to highly complex imaging and therapy equipment such as MRI scanners, lasers, gamma cameras and life support devices.
The budget of this section is £8.0million of which approximately £4million is for the running of the section (90% of medical devices are maintained ‘in house’) and approximately £4million for external maintenance contract management.
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
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good standard of education 4 x GCSE band C or above (5 or higher). Must be English. Maths, Science and one other or equivalent technical qualification in engineering.
Desirable criteria
- BTEC or ONC (level 3 or higher) in an Engineering subject
Experience
Desirable criteria
- To have worked within a maintenance environment
- Experience of working within a quality system
- Electronics/Mechanical background
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
- Paul Spark
- Job title
- Operational Senior Clinical Engineer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2715076
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