Senior Clinical Engineer

ROH; Northampton; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Clinical Engineer (Band 6) to provide comprehensive medical device maintenance, repair and life‑cycle management across clinical areas. The role includes supervision of technicians, liaison with suppliers and input into equipment replacement planning.

The post requires strong technical knowledge of analogue/digital electronics, risk assessment and effective communication with clinical staff to ensure patient safety and service continuity.

Qualifications

• HNC/HND, BEng or BSc in a physical science or electronic engineering subject or equivalent vocational qualification.
• A range of relevant technical training courses, OEM or approved supplier.
• Contemporary knowledge of analogue and digital electronics and fault-finding techniques.
• Eligible for membership of an appropriate professional institute.

Responsibilities

• Perform a wide range of technical duties on complex medical equipment ensuring reliability, availability and safety.
• Investigate and test devices; diagnose faults and rectify.
• Record maintenance history using computerised systems for audit and quality.
• Supervise junior technicians as required and train staff.
• Liaise with suppliers for technical and commercial information; support CAS actions.

Skills

Medical device maintenance

Electrical troubleshooting

Risk assessment

Communication skills

Education

HNC/HND, BEng or BSc in physical science/electronic engineering

Technical training (OEM/approved supplier)

Analogue & digital electronics knowledge

Professional institute membership eligibility

Job description

Employer Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site University Hospitals of Northamptonshire Town Northampton Salary £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum / Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 15/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 04/12/2026

Senior Clinical Engineer

Band 6

Job overview

The post holder will provide comprehensive medical device maintenance, repair, commissioning
and management services to a wide range of clinical specialties, Assist in the whole life
management and support of all medical devices across Northampton General Hospital. Other
responsibilities include:

Providing support services to one or more specialist areas e.g. Critical Care, Theatres,

Radiotherapy, Diagnostic imaging, Special Care Baby Unit, Renal, etc....

Train and advise nursing and other staff in the safe use of medical devices.

Organise and update service, operation and instruction procedures.

May supervise other technicians.

Provide effective input into the work of the Trust, to support the achievement of our vision and
values:

Main duties of the job

Perform a wide range of technical duties, mainly guided by procedures involving autonomous work on highly complex medical equipment in the clinical and workshop environment to ensure the optimum effectiveness, reliability, availability and safety of medical devices.

Investigate and test medical devices, analysing the results to diagnose faults or problems and rectify them.

Communication of investigation results to users, colleagues and suppliers, sharing knowledge and experience.

Using primarily computerised systems, make accurate equipment maintenance history records and other information supporting audit, quality and performance monitoring.

Supervising other technicians when required, to ensure all aspects of the service are delivered in an efficient, safe, professional and organised way according to departmental policies, procedures and Health and Safety documentation.

Liaise with medical device suppliers to obtain technical and commercial information in relation to equipment maintenance and evaluation.

First line support of instrumentation interfaces to specialist clinical computer systems, liaising with IM&T to resolve problems as necessary.

Monitor stocks and initiate orders.

Comment on, and propose changes to, departmental procedures and develop planned maintenance schedules.

Complete and review equipment and job audits.

Contribute to organised training of technical, medical, nursing staff and
patients in the proper care and use of medical devices.

Working for our organisation

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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.

Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Analytical and Judgmental

To play a pivotal role in ensuring governance excellence in the use, training, maintenance and support of medical devices. Analyse complex problems, situations and information, making informed judgments and formulating solutions and recommendations for the continual improvement of patient safety.

Contribute to decisions/judgements involving situations where expertise in a field is required taking into account, health & safety and conflicting demands.

Conduct risk assessments involving safety issues relating to medical devices.

Identify equipping deficiencies and ensure that they are fed into the
equipment replacement program.

Communication

Communicate to individuals, medical device information which will include policy changes, new policies, guidelines and regulations.

Communicate sometimes unwelcome information regarding clinical technical issues, policy and service delivery issues with staff, suppliers and outside agencies many of whom may have opposing views.

Communications will be conducted in the form of, email, telephone, attending meetings, one to one discussions, problem solving in complex situations.

Provide input where appropriate in any discussions relating to equipment management.

Communicate with suppliers and all external bodies as necessary.

Communicate with internal and external auditors, the Health and Safety Executive. Communicate with any staff representatives as required.

Planning & Organisation

Plan, prioritise and organise a range of activities relevant to own remit.

Provide support to the Head of Clinical Engineering in medical device
management across the Trust. Utilise and analyse data from audits and
provide suggestions that may lead to improvements in management of
medical devices.

Support and supervise junior colleagues or students on placement.

Policy, Protocol & Service Development

Contribute to medical device policies and procedures and support the
implementation of any changes in these policies.

Working within Medical Equipment Management Policy framework.

Participate in other departmental policy development at senior departmental meetings.

Contribute to the development of written procedures for all aspects of the work within the medical devices remit.

Contribute and support procedures for actioning Central Alert System (CAS)
relevant to medical devices.

Responsible for ensuring that clinical staff are informed of and encouraged to adhere to Trust policies and procedures.

Responsibility for Information Technology

Responsible for the operation of all manual and computerised information systems relating to medical equipment management which will include Safety

Alert Bulletins, Medical Equipment database training module, Trust wide

Medical Equipment Training and policies and procedures.

Responsibility for Research and Development

Contribute to the formal benchmarking audits programmes both internally and on other sites participating within the scheme.

Support investigations arising from the Trust’s Clinical and Adverse Incident reporting system (Datix). The post holder is required to find the root causes of medical equipment failure and report these findings as appropriate to each episode. Propose corrective action plan, to prevent reoccurrence.

Other responsibilities

Provide cover for colleagues as appropriate.

Assist in producing ad hoc reports and in project work.

Undertake any other duties requested, as appropriate to the banding.

Maintain own Continuing Professional Development.

Represent the Trust at appropriate external bodies.

Maintain expertise in medical device use and safety issues.

Is responsible for giving advice to users in all matters related to medical
devices safety.

Responsible for scheduling and prioritising own work within area of practice

Person specification

Qualifications

• HNC/HND, B.Eng or BSc. in a physical science or electronic engineering subject Or Equivalent vocational qualification
• A range of relevant technical training course, OEM or approved supplier.
• Contemporary knowledge of analogue and digital electronics and associated fault-finding techniques.
• Eligible for membership of an appropriate professional institute.

Knowledge & Experience

• Post qualification technical experience in repair and maintenance of medical equipment at a band 5 or 6
• Post qualification technical experience in repair and maintenance of specialist electronic medical equipment.
• Experience in scheduling and providing a maintenance and repair service for a wide range of medical equipment.
• Contemporary technical knowledge in application and use of electro medical equipment
• Contemporary technical knowledge in the testing of patient connected equipment
• Working knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology.
• Familiarity with Health & Safety at Work and other related legislation.
• Sound grasp of Medical Device management guidance.
• Work without supervision using own initiative.
• Fault finding on complex medical equipment.
• Experience of undertaking technical/clinical risk assessments on medical devices and have ability to find novel solutions to minimise risk where appropriate.

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to integrate within a team of staff working with a wide range of medical devices.
• Technical & clinical knowledge in medical device technologies and able to investigate root causes of clinical incidents.
• Knowledge of statutory, regulatory and governance obligations relating to medical device management lifecycle.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with stakeholders on difficult issues, and report on complex and/or sensitive information.
• Ability to organise own workload.
• Experience in operation and function of equipment and techniques in healthcare.
• Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner.
• Able to use standard office and bespoke software applications.
• Understanding of the principles of risk management and incident investigations and the use of Root Cause Analysis tools - with a high level of understanding of patient and staff safety risks that may arise from equipment failure.

At Northampton General Hospital we provide general acute services and hyper‑acute stroke, vascular and renal services to people living in Northamptonshire. As well as this we are an accredited cancer centre and provide cancer services to a wider population of Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire.

We are proud to be the first hospital in the UK to have obtained Pathway to Excellence® designated accreditation from the American nurses credentialing centre (ANCC).

We celebrate staff achievements and value the importance of working as one big team. That’s why we talk about Team NGH. It’s all about working together to provide the best possible care for our patients and supporting each other to grow and develop our skills. We are driven to helping you to be the best you can be.

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds.This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

Our Excellence Values:

• Compassion
• Respect
• Integrity
• Courageous
• Accountable

Due to the high number of applications received we are unable to respond to each application individually. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you have been unsuccessful in this application.

For further information on nursing, apprenticeships, A&E or any other departments please visit our specific website or pages that are indicated on the right hand side of this advert.

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust recognises that staff of differing backgrounds and life experiences enrich our workforce and bring different skills and knowledge. We therefore encourage and welcome applications for our vacancies from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.