Clinical Engineer Fixed Term

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a capable Medical Equipment Clinical Engineer to work within a specialist team responsible for inspecting, testing, maintaining and repairing a wide range of medical devices. You will bring relevant qualifications, practical experience and the ability to work with sophisticated devices in patient-sensitive environments.

The role involves servicing medium-high risk equipment, fault diagnosis both near patients and when connected to mains, maintaining

Qualifications

• Relevant qualifications and practical experience with medical devices.
• Understanding clinical applications of medical devices and ability to discuss with medical staff.
• Ability to work on devices in patient-sensitive environments and near mains power.

Responsibilities

• Undertake servicing and repair of medical devices in a safe, professional manner per procedures.
• Carry out planned preventive maintenance (PPM), fault-finding, repair and calibration of medium-high risk equipment.
• Understand clinical applications of medical devices and discuss these with medical staff.
• Work on devices that may be exposed to contamination and bodily fluids and near mains voltages.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records within required timeframes.
• Acceptance testing of new equipment to ensure compliance with standards.
• Use IT-based systems and testing equipment to calibrate, diagnose faults and upgrade devices.
• Promote teamwork, flexibility and versatility within the department.

Skills

Relevant qualifications

Job description

The post holder will work as part of a small specialist team engaged in inspecting, testing, maintaining and repairing a wide range of medical equipment. He/she will have the relevant qualifications, combined with practical experience and the ability to work on his/her own initiative with sophisticated medical devices in a patient sensitive environment.

The Engineer is also expected to service and maintain equipment that is categorised to be predominantly medium-high risk in terms of patient care technology. Fault diagnosis may be undertaken whilst equipment is connected to, or in close proximity to patients.

Additional duties include mentoring junior staff and upholding team-centred working relationships within the department and across the organisation.

• 1.1 Undertake servicing and repair of medical devices in a safe, professional and organised manner in accordance with departmental procedures, Trust policies and manufacturers’ recommendations.
• 1.2 Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM), fault-finding, repair and calibration of medium-high risk medical equipment.
• 1.3 Understand the clinical applications of medical devices and have the skills necessary to discuss these issues with medical staff.
• 1.4 Work on devices that may have been exposed to contamination and bodily fluids and whilst exposed to mains and/or other potentially lethal voltages.
• 1.5 Maintain accurate equipment records maintenance records, complying with timeframes, legibility and quality of information.
• 1.6 Acceptance testing of new equipment to ensure compliance with appropriate standards.
• 1.7 Use I.T. based systems and sophisticated test equipment to calibrate, diagnose faults and upgrade medical equipment.
• 1.8 Promote teamwork, flexibility and versatility within the department.

Clinical Engineering is a specialist team engaged in overseeing all aspects of medical equipment management, which spans from research, design and installation, through to maintenance and eventual disposal. Incorporated within Clinical Engineering, is the Medical Equipment Library (MEL): whose primary focus is distributing medical devices where needed, in a timely manner.

Therefore, practical knowledge; relevant qualifications; technical expertise of working within such services; and familiarity with medical devices and multi-disciplinary teams across the organisation are fundamental to this position.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Martin Cottam Job title: Clinical Engineering Team Leader Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01254 733140