Special Medical Equipment Technician

NHS; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Southend-on-Sea is seeking a Special Medical Equipment Technician. The role involves managing medical equipment maintenance and ensuring safety standards. Ideal candidates will have a degree in electronics and significant experience in medical electronics, contributing to improved patient care and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Significant experience of medical electronics.
• Ability to work within a quality system (ISO9001:2015).

Responsibilities

• Ensure equipment operates effectively and safely.
• Provide support for electrical and electronic medical equipment.

Skills

Communication

Analytical

Planning

Fault finding

Working autonomy

Education

Degree Level Electronics

Tools

Specialist test equipment

Equipment management information systems

Job description

Go back Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Special Medical Equipment Technician

The closing date is 29 May 2025

MEMS provide total medical equipment management services to Basildon, Southend and Mid Essex Hospitals. 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.

The post holder provides 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.

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

Main duties of the job

• Communication

Build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the shared services as required.

Establish and maintain strategic links with a range of external partners/stakeholders

or manage the links made through the team.

• Analytical and Planning

Manage the production of the required deliverables and control risks.

Liaison with Senior Professionals and related functions to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated

Engage with external partners/stakeholders to gain their necessary level of contribution & commitment to the successful delivery of your work.

Ensure that expertise is seen as a resource within and outside the Trust and form working partnerships with government departments, national agencies and key stakeholders internationally, nationally, regionally and across sectors.

• Clinical Duties

Not Applicable

• 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 Trust's stated objectives & aims

Undertake evidence-based practice for either developments relating to Trust work or opportunities for Trust involvement around health issues

About us

With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Job responsibilities

This job profile is not a definitive or exhaustive list of responsibilities but identifies the key responsibilities and tasks of the post holder.

The post holder will be expected to perform any other duties or responsibilities as assigned by management, within scope of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree Level Electronics or equivalent experience in General electronics

Knowledge

• Significant Experience of Medical Electronics
• Knowledge of specialist test equipment
• Fault find to component level
• Experience of Equipment management information systems and databases
• Ability to work within the confines of a quality System (ISO9001:2015)
• Ability to work with technical manuals and schematic diagrams
• Working autonomy

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.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 a yearPer annum (Pro rata for part time)