Medical Engineering Technician Higher Level

Job overview

Band 5 Subject to Evaluation

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Clinical Engineering Department to support the delivery of safe, effective, and reliable medical equipment services across the Trust and partner organisations.

The department is responsible for the evaluation, selection, acceptance testing, repair, calibration, and maintenance of a wide range of patient-connected medical devices and equipment. The post holder will support frontline clinical services by ensuring equipment is maintained to the highest safety and quality standards.

The role requires close liaison with departmental colleagues, clinical users, manufacturers, and external contractors. Duties will be carried out under the supervision of the Clinical Engineering Operations Manager and in line with ISO9001 (2015) quality standards.

This position will not be supported for visa sponsorship.  All applicants are expected to have valid right to work document to work in the UK when applying for this position.

Please note, this post may close earlier than the given closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

Carry out Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) across a wide range of medical equipment

Perform first-line troubleshooting, calibration, and repair of complex medical devices

Undertake acceptance testing and commissioning of new equipment

Provide application and user support to clinical staff

Coordinate servicing and repair activities with external contractors

Work safely within clinical environments in accordance with Trust policies and procedures

Maintain accurate service and maintenance records within the Clinical Engineering database

Support gap analysis activities and rectify identified data or compliance gaps

Assist in updating service manuals, SOPs, operational instructions, and maintenance documentation

Support training and mentoring of junior Clinical Engineering staff

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Specific Responsibilities:

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

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

Advance fault-finding techniques to diagnose problems within complex and interrelated systems (where necessary to component level) including those beyond the scope of the manufacturer supplied information.

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 risks 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.

Always contribute to efficient team working and support the goals/targets of the department ensuring KPI delivery across department targets are met or escalated to Clinical Engineering Operations Manager if Post Holder anticipates that any KPI may not be met.

Please see attached job description for further information.