Assistant Technical Officer

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; West Carr; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the UK is seeking a dedicated individual to ensure the safe delivery and collection of medical devices across clinical areas. As part of a diverse and inclusive Clinical Engineering Team, you will play a key role in the technical servicing of medical equipment, ensuring prompt and effective completion of tasks. This role requires good communication skills and the ability to manage physical workloads effectively.

Qualifications

• Responsible for maintaining high safety standards while handling medical devices.
• Ability to manage a demanding physical workload.
• Good communication skills with nursing staff and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and collect medical devices to and from wards.
• Provide technical support to the Clinical Engineering team.
• Assist with the service and repair activities of medical equipment.

Job description

Role Overview

Responsible for working to high safety standards while collecting and delivering medical devices to and from wards and clinical areas. Undertakes technical servicing on medical equipment and plays a key role in ensuring that work is carried out safely and effectively, completing work schedules on time and in line with planned preventative maintenance on the Trust’s and non‑Trust medical equipment.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver and collect medical devices to and from wards and clinical areas.
• Provide technical support and assistance to the Clinical Engineering equipment management service.
• Support and assist the service and repair work activities of the medical equipment support teams under managed supervision.
• Organise own workload and ensure timely completion of tasks.
• Communicate regularly with nursing staff who request and return devices and with company representatives from suppliers who loan devices to the Trust.
• Maintain a demanding and challenging level of physical effort required by the role.

About the Clinical Engineering Team

The Clinical Engineering Team is part of the Medical Physics Department within Humber Health Partnership NHS Trust. We provide whole‑life equipment management services for the range of medical equipment in use across the Trust and also in external organisations who procure our services. Our team consists of 24 members of staff based in workshops at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital sites.

About Humber Health Partnership

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion. Made up of two Trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve. Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff across five main hospital sites.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our partnership and our community.

Additional Information

For further details regarding this vacancy opportunity, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification. Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated. Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HUTH would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.