Senior Clinical Engineer

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust; Northampton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust is seeking an experienced EBME Manager to lead maintenance, repair, commissioning and management of medical devices across clinical specialties. You will support life-cycle management and service delivery in a busy hospital environment.

The role involves training nursing and clinical staff, organising procedures, liaising with suppliers and IM&T, supervising technicians, and contributing to audits and safety records.

Qualifications

• Experience in maintaining, repairing and commissioning medical devices.

Responsibilities

• Provide support services to specialist areas such as 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 input into the work of the Trust to support its vision.
• Investigate and test medical devices, diagnose faults and rectify them.
• Communicate investigation results to users, colleagues and suppliers.
• Maintain accurate equipment maintenance history records and audit-related information.
• Supervise technicians when required to ensure efficient, safe service delivery.
• Liaise with medical device suppliers for technical and commercial information.
• First line support of instrumentation interfaces to clinical computer systems; coordinate with IM&T.
• Monitor stocks and initiate orders.
• Comment on and propose changes to procedures and maintenance schedules.
• Complete and review equipment and job audits.
• Contribute to training of technical, medical, nursing staff and patients on device care.

Skills

Medical device maintenance

Problem solving

Training staff

Communication

Audit and records

Job description

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

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.

We recognise that AI tools can support application writing; however, candidates are asked to keep their use to a minimum. Responses should reflect your own experience, skills and knowledge, as over-reliance on AI-generated content may result in generic answers that do not accurately represent your abilities.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Paul Doolan Job title: EBME Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 441604545440