About this role
Job summary
Are you someone who enjoys practical, hands-on work and takes pride in keeping vital equipment running smoothly? This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking multi-disciplinary team dedicated to one mission: maximising the availability of safe, reliable medical devices that directly support patient care across the Trust.
Our service is at the heart of several innovative initiatives, including Trust-wide resuscitation trolley equipment provision, a responsive Equipment Library service, and technical support for devices used in busy respiratory clinic settings. No two days look the same, and your contribution will have a real, visible impact on patient safety and clinical efficiency.
In this role, you'll play a key part in delivering the Trust's rolling programme of planned maintenance and ensuring that essential devices--such as beds, pumps, and other equipment--are always ready when needed.
If you are motivated by ensuring safe, reliable equipment is available where it's needed most, and you're ready to play a vital role in supporting clinical teams across the Trust, we would be delighted to receive your application. Join us and help deliver high-quality care through excellence in medical device support.
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 Essential
The post holder must possess good communication and interpersonal skills to effectively liaise with ward and departmental staff, with a good delivery of spoken English Basic computer & standard keyboard skills
Qualifications Essential
Level 3 qualification or equivalent in relevant field - for example Engineering, Health Decontamination, Healthcare Science The post holder requires basic literacy and numeracy skills
Desirable
English or Mathematics at GCSE or equivalent
Further Training Essential
The ability to assimilate instructions and work to Standard Operating Procedures. Basic testing and "expert user" maintenance of a range of non-complex medical devices
Experience Essential
Significant experience of working in an healthcare environment where interaction with medical devices and a wide variety of staff is necessary Significant experience of working in a store or other moving & handling environment
Contractual Requirements Essential
Ability to lift and handle equipment with the correct aids. To include moving beds and smaller items of medical equipment. May be required to work at Newark on occasions
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)