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Specialist Medical Engineering Technician

Full Time: 37.5 hours

As part of a multi-disciplinary team of specialist medical engineers, your duties will include the commissioning and acceptance testing of new medical devices, carrying out planned maintenance, repairs, fault finding and electrical safety testing on medical equipment of a highly complex nature. 

Equipment includes: life support, patient monitoring, patient therapy, diagnostic, ventilatory and anaesthetic equipment which at times may be connected to a patient.

 You will be required to work without supervision and conduct diagnostic procedures.

 You will take responsibility for the supervision of junior medical engineering staff under your technical control, and the supervision of contract staff carrying out maintenance on Trust premises; these staff could be working with highly complex medical equipment. 

You will be required to provide training to nurses, clinical and care staff in the safe use of medical equipment, and keep appropriate records.

You will also be required to participate in an on-call rota providing emergency 24-hour cover to Life support ventilation in Spinal Injuries Unit, ITU and Home Based Patients (HBPs).  HBP’s medical devices are located on premises outside of the Acute Trust, in HBPs’ homes.

Main duties of the job

Technical/Specialist Knowledge

1.1       Technical expertise across a broad range of medical devices and utilise specialist knowledge within a designated field of medical device technology.  This specialist engineering knowledge will be gained through formal qualifications (HNC or above), attendance at Manufacturer approved training courses, self study, continuing professional development and practical experience of maintaining and repairing highly complex medical equipment.

1.2       Attend training courses and update individual technical knowledge of specialist equipment and knowledge in respect of specialised clinical use of such equipment.  To disseminate this information to the relevant healthcare specialists as required

1.3       Attend mandatory training, to enable the Trust to meet its obligations under its policies and legislation.  The post holder will identify personal and departmental training and development delivery needs. 

Working for our organisation

The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.

From 1^st July we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.

The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.

Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:

• CARE that is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
• ​​​​​​SAFETY that is of the highest standards
• COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
• SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
• PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients

Our achievements include:

• Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our staff benefits. Accessible version available upon request.