Senior Assistant Technical Officer

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Assistant Technical Officer to provide technical support within their Clinical Engineering Team. Responsibilities include assisting with medical equipment management, maintaining safety standards during device handling, and working as part of a dedicated team. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background, good interpersonal skills, and experience in a healthcare environment. This position is based in Hull and offers opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years technical/scientific support role experience.
• Understanding of electrical safety related to medical equipment.
• Awareness of basic electrical safety.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support and assistance to the equipment management service.
• Support and assist in service and repair work activities.
• Organise own workload effectively.

Skills

Basic technical/scientific/craft level knowledge

Basic computer literacy

Knowledge of medical equipment safety issues

Interpersonal skills

Education

GCSE grade C pass in English, Mathematics, and a relevant Science subject

ONC/BTEC or equivalent qualification in an appropriate science or engineering subject

Job description

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Senior Assistant Technical Officer

The closing date is 12 December 2025

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. We have 24 members of staff based in workshops at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital sites.

The successful candidate will be required to work to high standards of safety and accountability as you collect and deliver medical devices to and from wards and clinical areas and undertake technical servicing on medical equipment. You will have a key role in within the team to ensure that work is carried out in a safe and effective manner, thus ensuring that work schedules are completed on time and in line with the planned preventative maintenance required on the Trust's and Non Trust medical equipment.

This is a demanding and challenging role requiring frequent but varied physical effort. The post involves regular communication with the nursing staff who request and return devices and with company representatives from suppliers who loan devices to the Trust.

The positions will be based at Hull Royal Infirmary and offers an opportunity to work as part of a highly experienced team. We value our staff and the expertise and professionalism they bring to our work. As part of your career development we will assess and monitor your training needs and ensure that you undertake appropriate training.

Main duties of the job

• Provide technical support and assistance to the Clinical Engineering equipment management service.
• Special responsibility, under managed supervision, to support and assist the service and repair work activities of the medical equipment support teams.
• Responsible for organising own workload

About us

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. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

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.

Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see 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.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Good general education, with a minimum of GCSE grade C pass in English, Mathematics and a relevant Science subject (or equivalent)
• ONC/BTEC or equivalent qualification in an appropriate science or engineering subject

Knowledge, Training & Experience

• Have some basic technical/scientific/craft level knowledge
• Possess an awareness of basic electrical safety
• Basic computer literacy
• 2 years minimum technical/scientific/craft support role, within a technical service environment or studied Engineering at College or in higher education.
• Medical equipment support knowledge
• An understanding of electrical safety in relation to medical equipment.
• Understanding of medical equipment safety issues.
• Familiar with computer databases and stock data recording systems
• Have undergone some form of in-service technical/scientific training or training as a support worker in a front-line patient environment.
• Possess experience in a technical support role in a medical environment.

Communication & Interpersonal Skills

• Aptitude for working within a team
• Ability to carry out routine tasks and provide records of work completed
• Ability to organise and manage own workload
• Maintain a flexible approach to changes in working practices and accept change readily
• Professional interest in developing and advancing knowledge and skills
• Capable of working without close supervision

Attributes & Other Requirements

• High level of interpersonal skills
• Demonstrate empathy and diplomacy
• Flexible and reliable
• Good time keeper
• Ability to work from all hospital sites as required to meet the demands of the service

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust