Job summary
- Main area
- EME
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-LC184-A
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cross Site Based at Heatherwood EME/Clinical Engineering Department,
- Town
- Ascot, Berkshire
- Salary
- £37,162 - £44,629 per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
EME Cross Site - Community Engineer
Band 6
Job overview
As a member of the Eme/Clinical Engineering Team, the post holder will be responsible to attend al community sites under FHFT North and South to provide repair, Planned Preventative Maintenance for medical devices. The post holder will act as the core responsible person who will define workloads and ensure that KPI’s are aligned to the Eme/Clinical Engineering strategy and address issues and plan accordingly to the preset expectations.
The role acts as an essential link between the main Eme/Clinical Engineering section on all sites and the continual growing hospital growth with the ability to guide and support first line and draw on expertise as needed from the onsite EME teams.
The post holder will be based across the 3 sites and with planning have the ability to plan with work demands secure hot desks with the primary site being Core- Heather wood Eme workshop, Wexham and Frimley Workshop and Community. Through experience of working with medical devices should understand the responsibilities and factors involved in the safe management and support end users / customers with their planning , queries and overall be the responsible person as the face of EME services overall in the community setting.
Main duties of the job
The job is very autonomous but has core values to eet which are,
To work in conjunction with the main team of engineers and their apprentices, to include allocation of work,
- To deal with all medical device repairs and (keeping information real time for a concise and traceable process).
- They will work in accordance with the current roster e g based 4 months FPH, based 4 months WPH and based 4 months HW or as per demand per site providing, ‘bench support supporting immediate teams and demands.
- To be accountable for the spare parts and have the ability to order and manage local stock under non pay.
- To review options to adapt the workshop within Heather wood Hospital Eme Workshop.
- To act as primary point of contact for community related medical device repairs with responsibility for ensuring that the actions and requirements relating to these repairs and to make difficult decisions to support safe and effective patient care.
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work with the EME department and Community Stakeholders to ensure that all medical devices are centrally controlled for corrective and preventative maintenance and acted upon trust wide. Additionally, implement solutions to ensure compliance to the required manufacturer standards as per the Medical Device Management Standard 2021 and company specific testing guidance. In line with the above to ensure that end users are aware of the actions required and further to ensure that testing and validation compliance is validated for stakeholders. Further to enable users and EME to undertake the required corrective actions ensuring KPi’s and set methods are acted on, signed off, documented, and validated.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to BSc level or equivalent experience in Medical Device healthcare
- CPD and have studied a variety specialist and general Medical Engineering Training Courses particular to the NHS at post grad level
- Expert in the management and use of medical devices
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Educated to and ONC/HNC In Electronic or Engineering or equivalent experience
- Qualifications to degree level in Electronic Engineering or Medical Engineering
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of modern computer-based equipment databases and some IT knowledge/awareness
- Knowledge of medical devices
- Knowledge and experience of working in a medical engineering environment
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising a team of engineers
- Professionally gained and significant experience preferably in a number of different areas of electronics and preferably including medical electronics
- Experience of dealing with a Cross Range of community systems for medical related devices
- Experienced in dealing with complex and/or sensitive information and unpredictable situations.
Desirable criteria
- Significant previous experience of working directly with cross section of community systems across all areas
- Worked with medical devices with > 5 years’ experience
- Specific servicing experience in medical equipment in N.H.S. or commercial environment
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to produce complex reports on medical device increased incidents for the medical device committee
- Ability to effectively explain highly complex or technical information to a wide range of stakeholders, sometimes in stressful clinical situations
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- Ability to prioritise and plan workloads
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- paul kirkby
- Job title
- Head of EME/Clinical Engineering
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 6 136332
- Additional information
T-( 03006 134276 (Ext 134276))
or
Paul Hill Deputy Head email [email protected] 0300 6 153211
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