Associate Healthcare Scientist Medical Engineering

Job Summary

Join a dynamic multi-disciplinary team dedicated to one mission: ensuring safe, reliable medical devices are always available to support high-quality patient care across the Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a service known for its innovative approach and hands-on clinical support.

You’ll play a key role in areas such as Trust-wide resuscitation trolley equipment provision, Equipment Library operations, and technical support within weekly respiratory clinic settings. Regular weekend working is part of the role.

• Carry out planned preventive maintenance (PPM), servicing, inspection and repair on a range of non-complex to moderately complex medical devices
• Perform routine fault-finding, using appropriate diagnostic techniques to identify and resolve issues
• Support the safe condemnation and disposal of medical devices
• Conduct acceptance testing for new and loaned equipment before clinical use
• Assist with the rollout of newly accepted devices into clinical areas
• Contribute to Trust-wide resuscitation equipment schemes to ensure readiness and compliance

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other.

We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

• Level 4 qualification e.g. HNC/D in Electrical/Mechanical/Medical Engineering or equivalent. Candidates with the lower qualification would be taken on via Annex 21 in a training role to reach this minimum level

• Contribute to the Clinical Engineering services of MEMD including planned maintenance, repair, acceptance and condemnation
• Acceptance testing
• PPM
• Electrical Safety Testing
• Electrical and Mechanical Tools
• Fault Finding
• Computer Technology
• Use of test Equipment
• Communication/interpersonal skills, commensurate with effective team working and liaison with clinical and professional colleagues

• Additional Knowledge achieved through attendance of manufacturer’s training courses for non-complex and moderately complex medical devices

• Experience of maintenance and repairs of a comprehensive range of complex and moderately complex medical electrical/electronic/mechanical devices

• Experience working within Healthcare Environment
• Driving Licence

• Driving Licence

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name:
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address:
King’s Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4JL

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