About this role
Job summary
Join a dynamic multi-disciplinary team dedicated to one mission: ensuring safe, reliable medical devices are always available to support high-quality patient care across the Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a service known for its innovative approach and hands-on clinical support.
You'll play a key role in areas such as Trust-wide resuscitation trolley equipment provision, Equipment Library operations, and technical support within weekly respiratory clinic settings. Regular weekend working is part of the role.
Key Responsibilities:
Carry out planned preventive maintenance (PPM), servicing, inspection and repair on a range of non-complex to moderately complex medical devices
Perform routine fault-finding, using appropriate diagnostic techniques to identify and resolve issues
Support the safe condemnation and disposal of medical devices
Conduct acceptance testing for new and loaned equipment before clinical use
Assist with the rollout of newly accepted devices into clinical areas
Contribute to Trust-wide resuscitation equipment schemes to ensure readiness and compliance
Apply now to join our team!
This role has a requirement to regularly switch between Thursday/Friday off to carry out weekend working.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job description Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements Essential
Contribute to the Clinical Engineering services of MEMD including planned maintenance, repair, acceptance and condemnation Knowledge and Skills applied to medical equipment will include Acceptance testing PPM Electrical Safety Testing Electrical and Mechanical Tools Fault Finding Computer Technology Use of test Equipment Communication/interpersonal skills, commensurate with effective team working and liaison with clinical and professional colleagues
Qualifications Essential
Level 4 qualification e.g. HNC/D in Electrical/Mechanical/Medical Engineering or equivalent. Candidates with the lower qualification would be taken on via Annex 21 in a training role to reach this minimum level
Further Training Essential
Additional Knowledge achieved through attendance of manufacturer's training courses for non-complex and moderately complex medical devices
Experience Essential
Experience of maintenance and repairs of a comprehensive range of complex and moderately complex medical electrical/electronic/mechanical devices
Desirable
Experience working within Healthcare Environment
Contractual Requirements Desirable
Driving Licence
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 details Employer name Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton-in-Ashfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)