Clinical Engineering Technician Specialist

Job overview

Are you an experienced medical equipment technician looking for an opportunity to make a real difference to patient safety and clinical services?

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is seeking a skilled and motivated Band 6 Clinical Engineering Technician to join our Clinical Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to support the safe, effective and reliable operation of a wide range of medical devices and equipment used across the Trust and its partner organisations.

The Clinical Engineering Department plays a vital role in supporting patient care through the evaluation and selection of medical equipment, acceptance testing, commissioning, preventative maintenance, calibration, troubleshooting and repair.

You will work with a diverse range of electrical, electronic and mechanical medical equipment across a variety of clinical environments, including wards, Intensive Care, the Special Care Baby Unit, theatres, Cardiology and other Trust properties.

About You

We are looking for a technically capable and proactive individual with a strong commitment to medical equipment safety, quality and patient care.

You should be able to demonstrate a methodical approach to fault-finding and repair, the ability to work with complex medical devices, and a commitment to maintaining high technical and professional standards.

You will need strong communication and organisational skills, an ability to work effectively with clinical colleagues, departmental staff and external contractors.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

As a Clinical Engineering Technician, you will:

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM), calibration, troubleshooting and repairs on a wide range of complex medical equipment.
• Ensure all equipment is maintained and serviced in accordance with the highest standards of safety, quality and reliability.
• Undertake acceptance testing and commissioning of new medical equipment to ensure it is safe and fit for clinical use.
• Provide technical advice and applications support to clinical colleagues and other equipment users.
• Coordinate servicing and repairs with external contractors, ensuring work is completed effectively and to the required standards.
• Support the safe and effective management of medical devices across the Trust and its partner organisations.
• Work collaboratively with clinical teams, colleagues and external service providers to minimise equipment downtime and support continuity of patient care.
• Ensure all work is undertaken in accordance with departmental procedures and the requirements of the Trust’s ISO 9001:2015 quality management certification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Specific Responsibilities:

Repair and maintain medical devices to maximise clinical use and compliance.

Assess critical equipment breakdowns to determine the seriousness, implications and respond appropriately

Use advance fault-finding techniques to diagnose problems within complex and interrelated systems (where necessary to component level).

Ensure that repaired or serviced equipment works to manufacturers’ specifications before being put into service

Collate feedback and analysis of faults with the aim to reduce the chance of similar faults reoccurring.

Share learning with team, help populate risk and incident logs on trust systems.

Act as identified “ROTA TECH” for one or more of the Trust sites, for clinical and technical response, acting as first point of contact for Clinical Engineering.

Chair working parties to organise & update service, operation, instructions, PPM SOP tasks and manuals for equipment

Provide comprehensive detail for each repair or PPM task activity on Trust bespoke medical device Database software.

Lead on Audits as directed by senior team.

Please see attached job description for further information

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.