Special Medical Equipment Technician

NHS; Essex; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Essex is seeking a Special Medical Equipment Technician to integrate medical devices into a digital health ecosystem. The role involves effective communication with clinical staff, conducting audits, and managing resources. The ideal candidate will have experience in medical electronics and hold a degree in electronics. Benefits include flexible working hours, a comprehensive relocation package, and an excellent pension scheme.

Benefits

27 days holiday plus bank holidays

Excellent pension up to 14.5%

Staff discounts including NHS offers

Interest-free season ticket loans

Qualifications

• Degree level in electronics or equivalent experience required.
• Significant experience in medical electronics is essential.
• Ability to work with technical manuals and schematic diagrams.

Responsibilities

• Build effective communications with teams involved in the NOVA project.
• Conduct site-wide audits and mapping of existing medical device connectivity.
• Ensure compliance with NHS policies and clinical safety standards.

Skills

Communication

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Technical manuals understanding

Education

Degree Level Electronics or equivalent

Member of Register of Clinical Technologists

Tools

Specialist test equipment

Medical device management systems

Middleware technologies

Job description

Go back Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Special Medical Equipment Technician

The closing date is 28 January 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a hands‑on Medical Devices Engineer to join our dedicated team at Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) as we embark on a transformative journey to implement a unified Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system across Essex. As part of the EPR programme, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the safe, effective, and reliable integration of medical devices into our digital health ecosystem. This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of modernising healthcare delivery, working across multidisciplinary teams in a role that directly impacts patient care. We're looking for someone with a strong technical background in medical devices, ideally with experience in hospital‑based device management or connectivity projects.

An integral element of the role, will be your flexibility to work across a multitude of different sites across Essex and into parts of Bedfordshire. In addition, there will be a requirement to join both virtual and face‑to‑face meetings and deliver updates when required.

Main duties of the job

Communication - Build and sustain effective communications with other individuals or teams involved in the NOVA project, whilst working closely with clinical staff and site teams on a regular basis.

Analytical and Planning -Establish and maintain strategic links with a range of external partners/stakeholders or manage the links made through the team.

Policy and Service Development - Proactively and positively contribute to the achievement of deliverables through individual and team effort.

Financial and Physical Resources - Ensure that resources are used effectively and in accordance with agreed procedures.

Information Resources - Dissemination of knowledge, taking full responsibility for technical accuracy and reliability and being sensitive to the wider implications of that dissemination.

Effort, Skills and Working

Physical Skills - Highly developed physical skills, accuracy important; manipulation of fine tools, materials. Dexterity, co‑ordination & sensory skills for use of precision tools, maintaining delicate equipment

Physical Effort - Occasional/ frequent light effort for long periods, moderate effort for short periods.

Emotional Effort - Exposure to distressing to emotional circumstances is rare/ occasional

Working Conditions - Occasional highly unpleasant conditions.

About us

Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.

• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
• We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service.
• Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
• Season ticket loans are interest‑free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

Work that wraps around your needs

• Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.

Job responsibilities

Communication - Build and sustain effective communications with other individuals or teams involved in the NOVA project, whilst working closely with clinical staff and site teams on a regular basis. Youll need excellent communication and problem‑solving skills, as well as the ability to work both independently and as part of a wider programme team. Establish and maintain strategic links with a range of external partners/stakeholders or manage the links made through the team.

Analytical and Planning - Establish and maintain strategic links with a range of external partners/stakeholders or manage the links made through the team. Conduct site‑wide audits and mapping of existing medical device connectivity. Collaborate with clinical, IT, and EPR programme teams to ensure successful integration. Support data migration, interface configuration, and troubleshooting. Ensure compliance with NHS policies, clinical safety standards, and information governance protocols

Policy and Service Development - Proactively and positively contribute to the achievement of deliverables through individual and team effort.

Maintain and continuously improve specialist knowledge in an aspect of Health Service which significantly contributes to the Trusts stated objectives & aims. Undertake evidence‑based practice for either developments relating to Trust work or opportunities for Trust involvement around health issues.

Financial and Physical Resources - Ensure that resources are used effectively and in accordance with agreed procedures.

Information Resources - Dissemination of knowledge, taking full responsibility for technical accuracy and reliability and being sensitive to the wider implications of that dissemination.

Effort, Skills and Working

Physical Skills - Highly developed physical skills, accuracy important; manipulation offine tools, materials. Dexterity, co‑ordination & sensory skills for use of precision tools, maintaining delicate equipment

Physical Effort - Occasional/ frequent light effort for long periods, moderate effort for short periods. Repetitive equipment testing; works in awkward positions, some liftingof heavy equipment

Mental Effort -Occasional/ frequent light effort for long periods, moderate effort for short periods. Repetitive equipment testing; works in awkward positions, some liftingof heavy equipment

Emotional Effort - Exposure to distressing to emotional circumstances is rare/ occasionalDealing with faults on equipment connected to distressed patients

Working Conditions - Occasional highly unpleasant conditions.

Dust, fumes, noise; body fluids on equipment; compressed gas, electricity.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree Level Electronics or equivalent experience in General electronics
• Member of Register of Clinical Technologists

Knowledge and Experience

• Significant Experience of Medical Electronics
• Ability to work with technical manuals and schematic diagrams

Communication

Knowledge and Experience

• Knowledge of specialist test equipment.
• Knowledge of medical device integration
• Knowledge of specialist test equipment
• Experience of Equipment management information systems and databases
• Ability to work within the confines of a quality System (ISO9001:2015)
• Proven knowledge of Medical Equipment Safety standards
• Working autonomy
• Knowledge of HL7/FHiR messaging
• Knowledge of middleware technologies (eg, Mirth, Rhapsody)
• Knowledge of integration of medical devices into Oracle Millenium, knowledge of agnostic medical device integration engines (eg, Fukuda F‑Connex, Macimo Iris Gateway)
• Supervision of staff

Communication

• Ability to communicate with all grades/disciplines of staff internally and externally in a confident manner in a variety of mediums

Personal and People Development

• Ability to work on own initiative and as a team worker
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to plan and prioritise own and others workload to ensure maximum efficiency
• Ability to train other members of staff

Physical Requirements

• Ability to perform tests requiring high level of manual dexterity
• Ability to make fine adjustments to sensitive medical equipment

Other

• Ability to drive

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.

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust