Medical Equipment Technician | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Southend University Hospital NHS Trust; Basildon; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organisation in Basildon is seeking a motivated individual for a role focused on managing and maintaining critical medical equipment. You will work collaboratively within a team, handling tasks such as servicing, calibration, and promoting the understanding of medical devices to ensure effective and safe operations. This role provides opportunities for career development and access to training.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Access to training and career development

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Motivated individual dedicated to teamwork.
• Experience in maintaining electrical and electronic medical equipment.
• Knowledge of calibration and acceptance testing of medical devices.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the effective and safe operation of clinical equipment.
• Perform planned preventative maintenance, servicing, repair, and calibration.
• Commission, calibrate, deploy, and maintain complex medical devices.
• Promote understanding of medical equipment concepts within the Trust.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Technical knowledge of medical equipment

Job description

We are looking for a motivated individual with excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills who is dedicated to working as part of the team.

MEMS provide total medical equipment management services to Basildon, Southend, Broomfield and other external organisations. This includes Procurement, Acceptance, Maintenance and Service, co-ordinate clinical staff training and decommissioning and disposal.

The role is responsible to ensure that equipment operates effectively and safely with the minimum of downtime. Clinical equipment covered incorporates complex electrical, electronic, mechanical, computer and medical gas-based systems.

Please be aware that we can no longer offer sponsorship for this role.

You will provide support to electrical and electronic related medical equipment, which includes the scheduled planned preventative maintenance (PPM), servicing, repair, calibration and acceptance testing on a wide range of medical equipment within the electrical / electronic field.

You will help promote understanding of the medical equipment concept within the Trust and support development and delivery of associated work programmes.

Perform a range of technical duties, guided by procedures involving autonomous work on both general and complex medical equipment in the clinical (external organisations) and workshop environment to ensure the optimum effectiveness, reliability, availability and safety of medical devices which may involve travelling across sites.

To commission, calibrate, deploy and maintain a wide range of complex medical devices e.g. Infusion Devices, Patient Monitoring, Defibrillators, etc

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

For more details on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached job description. We look forward to your application!

This advert closes on Friday 24 Oct 2025