Senior Assistant Technical Officer

Senior Assistant Technical Officer

Closing date: 19 March 2026

The Clinical Engineering Team is part of the Medical Physics Department within Humber Health Partnership NHS Trust. We provide whole life equipment management services for the range of medical equipment in use across the Trust and also in external organisations who procure our services. We have 24 members of staff based in workshops at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital sites.

The successful candidate will be required to work to high standards of safety and accountability as you collect and deliver medical devices to and from wards and clinical areas and undertake technical servicing on medical equipment. You will have a key role in within the team to ensure that work is carried out in a safe and effective manner, thus ensuring that work schedules are completed on time and in line with the planned preventative maintenance required on the Trust's and Non Trust medical equipment.

This is a demanding and challenging role requiring frequent but varied physical effort. The post involves regular communication with the nursing staff who request and return devices and with company representatives from suppliers who loan devices to the Trust.

The posts will be based at Castle Hill Hospital and offers an opportunity to work as part of a highly experienced team. We value our staff and the expertise and professionalism they bring to our work. As part of your career development we will assess and monitor your training needs and ensure that you undertake appropriate training.

• Support the work of and assist Clinical Engineering's equipment support technicians in the provision of the medical equipment management service.
• Carry out the commissioning of specific types of less complex medical equipment, to ensure compliance with departmental procedures.
• Under managed supervision, perform safety, performance and calibration testing according to specified schedules on specific, but less complex, medical equipment (e.g. calibration checks on tympanic thermometers, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices, ECG machines, spirometers, etc.), carrying out electrical safety testing of medical electrical/electronic items.
• Under managed supervision, perform service and repair according to specified schedules on specific, but less complex, medical equipment (e.g. nebulisers, CPAPs, spirometers, blood pressure monitoring devices, etc.).
• Fault‑find, repair and maintain less complex mechanical/electro‑mechanical/electronic devices under appropriate supervision.
• Liaise with clinical staff over availability of equipment or access to clinical areas for purposes of equipment service, repair or calibration.
• Where appropriate, sometimes alone, but under managed supervision or direction, work off‑site from the main hospitals in smaller hospitals, healthcare units, GP surgeries etc. Provide the same level of expertise and standard of performance expected on the main hospital sites.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our…