Clinical Engineer - Specialist Practitioner Clinical Technologist - Renal Dialysis

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.

Medical equipment is used for medical treatment and diagnosis of patients in all areas of a hospital and beyond. Having fully functional and accurate medical equipment is essential for the safe diagnosis and treatment of patients, and it is the Medical Equipment Management service that is responsible for that equipment. The Medical Equipment Management service is a team of highly trained clinical engineer technologists who are experts on medical equipment. We work across ten hospital sites in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, managing the full life cycle of over 55,000 medical equipment devices, completing over 60,000 jobs per year.

You will work as part of a team of clinical engineer technologists in the Renal South Team based at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital but also working across Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Victoria ACH and Royal Hospital for Children. You will have a permanent contract with a working week that is Monday to Friday. You will participate in a staff roster for the formal 7-day on-call service. Every day is different, you could be called to a water plant failure one day, or the next day commissioning new haemodialysis equipment, to the next day performing water sampling. You will work with a wide range of renal dialysis equipment including specialist and highly complex equipment. You will receive both manufacturer and in-house specialist training, to develop your skills to enable you to commission, calibrate, performance assure and repair this specialist and highly complex equipment.

We are looking for people that are passionate about medical equipment, patient safety, engineering and helping people. People that work well in a team and have a desire to learn.

If you can offer some or all the following, we would love you to apply:

• Engineering or Technology knowledge to SCQF Level 9
• Post graduate experience of renal dialysis equipment, for example attending manufacturers technical courses
• Experience of the service, repair and fault finding of medical equipment, including renal dialysis equipment
• Understanding of the clinical, scientific and engineering principles of a broad range of medical devices
• Good organisational and communication skills

As a valued employee of NHS Scotland, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual Leave - 27 Days increasing in line with service plus 8 days public holiday (pro rata)
• NHS discounts and more
• You will work a 37 hour week, Monday to Friday, and outwith these hours take part staff roster for the formal 7-day on-call service.

If you are considering applying and would like to find our more, please contact:

Ian Miller (Section Manager) at john.miller6@nhs.scot

Mark Prentice (Technical Manager) at mark.prentice@nhs.scot

Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs.

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