Junior Technical Support Engineer

Job overview

We are looking to fill the post of a Junior Technical Support Engineer.

The Medical Device Service supports users of medical equipment across all our hospital sites within the Northern Care Alliance NHS Trust.

You will be working in a multi-professional Medical Device Service (MDS), with teams delivering technical engineering, design, innovation and research, governance, library and training services across a number of Care Organisations and community teams. The MDS teams work closely together in a mutually respectful, supportive, and friendly way, exchanging ideas and skills, to deliver a patient focused service.

Ideally you will possess a minimum of HNC in Electronics engineering or a Clinical engineering qualification and you will have some relevant Medical electronics experience since qualifying. Knowledge in the application and use of a wide range of Medical equipment used in a hospital and community is essential, although some specific training will be provided.

Consideration may be given to applicants with reduced knowledge and skills, who follow a personnel development program on a reduced grade.

Main duties of the job

• You will have a key role in supporting the department's responsibility for the maintenance, repair and sub-contractor management of Medical equipment.. This will include first line support to users of Medical equipment to optimise systems up time to gain maximum use of Medical equipment.
• You will provide technical knowledge and support for the implementation and delivery of a long-term operational plan for cost effective and efficient management and deployment of safe medical devices across the Care organisations.
• You will work towards achieving compliance levels for medical device repair and maintenance including down time and ensure that systems are available to enable clinical teams to have insight into progress with maintenance and repair of their devices.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk