About this role
Job summary
An exciting fixed-term opportunity (up to the end of August 2027) has arisen within the Clinical Engineering department at King's College Hospital. The post will provide cover for a colleague who is away on secondment until the end of August 2027.
The role will support the medical device safety officer to manage the response to safety notices and will contribute to an extensive asset inventory audit programme across the Denmark Hill site. There will also be opportunities to develop experience in other aspects of the medical equipment life-cycle, such as equipment replacement projects, establishing planned maintenance programmes and responding to reported incidents involving medical devices.
The post would suit someone with a background in medical equipment maintenance/management, who is looking to develop into a wider governance role within the clinical engineering sector.
Main duties of the job
This role will have a particular focus on ensuring accurate asset records are created and maintained, developing customised reports detailing equipment service history and leading inventory audits across the Trust. More broadly, the post holder will provide technical input to all aspects of medical equipment governance across the equipment life-cycle, including the planning and delivery of medical equipment procurement projects, establishing preventative maintenance levels, investigating safety related incidents and actioning safety alerts.
About us
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.
Our six strategic ambitions are deliveringhigh-quality patient care; creating a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability.
We have also agreed four new organisational values - Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative - and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Governance / Quality Control
- Lead equipment audits to verify the medical device asset inventory. Resolve apparent contradictions within the information to clarify the situation.
- Monitor compliance with the quality system via internal quality audits.
- Undertake work in accordance with the department quality management system (ISO 13485).
- Strive to improve quality, performance and efficiency.
- Support, where required, the Head of Clinical Engineering across a wide range of internal/external meetings and working groups
Technical
- Interpret technical information from medical device related safety notices and ensure recommendations for remedial work are fully justified and actioned.
- Collate and interpret complex technical information relating to the service and maintenance requirements of medical devices and utilise that information to make recommendations regarding required service frequency and level of maintenance cover. Apply risk management techniques to aid decision making and maintain audit trails to demonstrate compliance with CQC regulations.
- Respond to reports of adverse incidents involving medical devices. This may involve the complex fault finding on medical equipment and the production of written reports to summarise findings and recommend appropriate action.
- Respond to requests for new or replacement medical equipment, liaising with end users and suppliers to capture clinical and technical aspects of equipment specifications.
- Provide technical oversight of external maintenance providers and identify opportunities to bring outsourced work in-house.
- Give advice or support to colleagues or manufacturers when repair or maintenance falls inside own level of expertise.
- Inform users of reasons for faults/incidents involving medical devices, the action taken and how to avoid re-occurrence.
- Assess risks relating to the use of medical equipment and recommend mitigations.
- Keep abreast of scientific, technical and clinical developments that relate to medical equipment through a formal CPD scheme.
Reporting and Analysis
- Create and maintain accurate records of medical devices commissioned within the Trust.
- Work with internal and external groups to ensure medical equipment maintenance records are kept up to date.
- Record equipment service history and update maintenance records on the Trust asset register.
- Query medical device asset registers to design reports and dashboards. Present these reports at department level meetings.
- Provide insights from multiple data sources to ensure equipment servicing is completed according to contract terms and planned schedules.
- Monitor provider performance to ensure that the maintenance providers fulfil their contractual responsibilities.
- Deal with complex facts or situations which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options e.g. receiving information from users regarding equipment breakdown and acting in such a way as to minimise down time, service disruption and cost.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree/NVQ Level 6 in a relevant subject, or extensive knowledge, skills and experience in the field of equipment management and support.
Desirable
- Professionally registered Healthcare Scientist.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Expert knowledge of clinical, scientific and engineering aspects of a wide range of medical equipment.
- Experience of equipment management within a healthcare setting.
Desirable
- Experience of working with equipment maintenance providers to ensure work is undertaken to the required standard.
- Experience of working with a wide range of people in different roles and at different levels of seniority both internal and external.
- Knowledge of NHS structure
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Working knowledge of all Microsoft Office packages (e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and internet use)
- Able to assimilate, analyse and present complex data.
- Ability to cope with variety of tasks under pressure.
- Able to exercise own initiative and able to operate autonomously.
- High level of planning and organisational skills with a flexible and adaptable approach.
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Good attention to detail
- Able to negotiate issues of a technical and commercial nature.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Kings college hospital
Faraday Building 124 - 126 Denmark Hill
London
SE5 8RX
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.kch.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)