Clinical Engineering Technician Specialist

NHS Jobs; Dartford; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is seeking a Clinical Engineering Technician Specialist to repair and maintain medical devices, assess critical breakdowns and apply advanced fault-finding techniques. The role involves ensuring equipment compliance with manufacturer specifications and sharing learnings to reduce recurring faults.

You will lead audits, chair working parties on service standards and contribute to risk/incident logs.

Qualifications

• Experience in repairing and maintaining medical devices to maximise clinical use and compliance.
• Ability to diagnose faults using advanced techniques and interpret manufacturer specifications.

Responsibilities

• Repair and maintain medical devices to maximise clinical use and compliance.
• Assess critical equipment breakdowns and respond appropriately.
• Use advanced fault-finding techniques to diagnose problems within complex systems.
• Ensure repaired equipment meets manufacturers specifications before use.
• Lead audits and populate risk/incident logs as directed.
• Chair working parties to update service manuals, SOPs and procedures.
• Record detailed repair/PPM activity in Trust device databases.
• Act as ROTA TECH for Trust sites and be the first point of contact for Clinical Engineering.

Skills

Medical device repair

Fault finding

Audit leadership

Team knowledge sharing

Documentation

Tools

Database software

Job description

Clinical Engineering Technician Specialist

Specific Responsibilities: Repair and maintain medical devices to maximise clinical use and compliance. Assess critical equipment breakdowns to determine the seriousness, implications and respond appropriately Use advance fault-finding techniques to diagnose problems within complex and interrelated systems (where necessary to component level). Ensure that repaired or serviced equipment works to manufacturers specifications before being put into service Collate feedback and analysis of faults with the aim to reduce the chance of similar faults reoccurring. Share learning with team, help populate risk and incident logs on trust systems. Act as identified ROTA TECH for one or more of the Trust sites, for clinical and technical response, acting as first point of contact for Clinical Engineering. Chair working parties to organise & update service, operation, instructions, PPM SOP tasks and manuals for equipment Provide comprehensive detail for each repair or PPM task activity on Trust bespoke medical device Database software. Lead on Audits as directed by senior team. Please see attached job description for further information