# Clinical Engineering Technician

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

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- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-engineering-technician/3be16b20-2e32-437b-83d0-ba4e22bcd0d8.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** London
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Health science services
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 pa
- **Contract type:** Permanent: 37.5
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Hours per week)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-06T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23T10:01:01.719Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Isleworth/Chelsea_Westminster_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Engineering_NHS_Maintenance_repair_medical_equipment_Medical_device_safety_governance_Equipment_commissioning_acceptance_testing_Planned_preventative_maintenance/Clinical_Engineering_NHS_Maintenance_repair_medical_equipment_Medical_device_safety_governance_Equipment_commissioning_acceptance_testing_Planned_preventative_maintenance-v8161476
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8161476?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Engineering Technician to join our Estates and Facilities team. In this varied and rewarding role, you will help ensure that a wide range of medical equipment is safe, reliable, and available to support outstanding patient care across our hospital sites.

Working as part of a specialist Clinical Engineering team, you will undertake maintenance, repair, calibration, testing, and commissioning of medical devices, while providing expert technical support to clinical staff. You will also contribute to equipment safety, training, quality assurance, and service improvement initiatives across the Trust.

We are seeking a proactive individual with strong technical skills, excellent communication abilities, and a commitment to delivering high-quality services. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within one of London's leading NHS Trusts, working in an environment that values innovation, teamwork, and putting patients first.

### Main duties of the job

- Carry out maintenance, repair, calibration and safety testing of a wide range of medical equipment.
- Commission, install and acceptance-test new medical devices.
- Diagnose faults and provide technical support to clinical departments across the Trust.
- Ensure medical equipment complies with safety standards, regulations and quality requirements.
- Plan and coordinate preventative maintenance programmes to maximise equipment availability.
- Maintain accurate service, maintenance and calibration records.
- Liaise with manufacturers and external service providers regarding repairs and specialist support.
- Deliver training and advice to healthcare staff on the safe use of medical equipment.
- Support equipment safety investigations, risk assessments and service improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to the day-to-day running of the Clinical Engineering Department and support junior team members where required.

Refer to Job Description for full list of duties

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a Clinical Engineering Technician, you will play a key role in supporting patient care by ensuring medical equipment across the Trust is safe, reliable, and fully operational. You will undertake the maintenance, repair, calibration, testing, and commissioning of a wide range of medical devices, provide specialist technical support to clinical teams, and contribute to equipment safety, quality assurance, risk management, and staff training. The role also involves liaising with external suppliers and manufacturers, maintaining accurate service records, supporting service improvement initiatives, and helping to deliver a high-quality Clinical Engineering service across Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital.

Refer to Job Description for full list of duties

## Person Specification

### Personal qualities

**Essential**

- Be able to physically lift heavy equipment, carry out repetitive equipment testing and work in awkward positions several times each day

### Skills and knowledge

**Essential**

- Must be able to work as part of a team and also to work independently, making potentially complex and technical decisions without supervision
- Ability to prepare documents and papers that may have a wide, multidisciplinary audience

### Education & Qualification

**Essential**

- Degree, HND, HNC, BTEC, OND, ONC in an appropriate engineering discipline, i.e. Electronics, Mechanics etc

**Desirable**

- Registered Clinical Technologist

## Documents

- [recruitment pack (pdf, 2.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1313)
- [policy statement (pdf, 144.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=891)
- [guidance for applicants (pdf, 85.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=890)
- [functional requirements (pdf, 278.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10462273)
- [staff benefits and wellbeing (pdf, 177.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1256)
- [ce job description may 2024 -band 6 (pdf, 904.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10462272)

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