Clinical Scientist

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare Trust in the UK seeks a candidate for a role focused on managing and advising on medical devices. This position involves overseeing procurement projects, advising clinical staff, and mentoring trainees while ensuring safe use and compliance of healthcare technologies. Candidates should have strong analytical capabilities and the ability to provide expert support across various departments. The Trust is committed to diversity and improving patient care through innovative practices.

Qualifications

• Able to assess healthcare technologies and devices for suitability.
• Experience in managing procurement projects and writing specifications.
• Strong analytical skills for extrapolating data into reports.

Responsibilities

• Point of contact for inquiries regarding medical devices.
• Advise staff on assessment and suitability of healthcare technologies.
• Manage procurement projects and monitor funding expenditure.
• Produce reports on medical device-related clinical incidents.

Job description

The CESS team's ever-expanding role supports the Trust in developing systems to achieve compliance with legal, regulatory, quality, professional and best practice standards relating to the safe acquisition, use and management of healthcare technologies. This post also supports the CESS manager's advisory role in the development of Trust strategies, policies and operational practices relating to medical devices.

This role will include leading on delegated projects such as rolling replacement programmes, clinical evaluations and writing specifications as specified by the medical device governance lead.

Main duties of the job

• Act as a point of contact for all enquiries involving medical devices and emerging healthcare technologies.
• Advise clinical staff on a broad range of healthcare technology, assessing devices available on the market and making judgements on suitability for the intended purpose, taking into account elements such as UK-based maintenance support and ease of use, and balancing this against clinical preference.
• Manage medical devices procurement projects, including writing specifications, monitoring expenditure of allocated capital funding, following tender and purchasing processes, and planning clinical evaluations.
• Extrapolate and analyse information from Trust data systems to produce reports such as monitoring of device-related clinical incidents supporting device replacement programmes, planned maintenance requirements and evidence for regulatory standards.
• Act as a visible, accessible, and assertive resource for medical device users; be a credible authoritative source of expert advice to managerial, medical, clinical, and technical staff and patients on the safe use, maintenance and management of medical devices and a pro‑active champion of best practice in their clinical application throughout the Trust.
• Provide support to the Medical Device Training Co‑ordinator in the delivery of medical device training programmes.
• Act as mentor for Clinical Scientist trainees and participate in joint training programmes in collaboration with external education organisations, children, young people and vulnerable adults.

As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce, we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward‑thinking multi‑award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world‑leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact.