Job Description
We are looking for an Engineer to join our amazing team of community based Medical Engineers supporting various health care providers across the North West. Our Medical Engineers play an essential role in the smooth running of these community services and help them maintain the highest levels of patient safety. If you are enthusiastic and motivated, this is an excellent opportunity for you to join our ISO 9001 accredited team.
Our ISO9001:2015 accredited department manages the Trusts 28,000 items of medical equipment and has service level contracts with other nearby organisations.
You will be undertaking the acceptance testing, planned maintenance and the repair of a range of medical equipment in community locations.
Working as a member of a highly skilled team you will be ensuring the safe operation of this equipment with minimum downtime and always maximising patient safety.
Applicants are expected to have knowledge in the field of medical engineering or general engineering along with considerable technical experience.Additionally, you should be able to provide evidence of continuing personal development, be highly professional, organised and capable of working under pressure
We have 9000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
- Communicate and develop relationships with a range of organisations and technical and clinical staff on adverse incidents and investigations.
- Explain the possible configurations of users’ computer / microprocessor based equipment and configure it to operate appropriately and safely for their areas/tasks
- Develop relationships with medical equipment manufacturers and suppliers so as to obtain best value and quality with the supply of products and services
- Liaise with external contractors to request repairs and repair quotations
- Communicate efficiently with, and offer advice on medical equipment to, staff at all levels within the Trust
- Prioritise and negotiate with other Health Care Professionals in obtaining access to medical equipment for maintenance.
- Brief clinical staff across the Trust in the function, operation and day-to-day maintenance of medical equipment.
- Support colleagues by providing them with technical information and training on devices where appropriate and passing on information gained from technical and clinical courses where required
- Undertake CPD to update own technical and clinical knowledge relating to medical equipment and its use
- Be aware of, and contribute to, Health, Safety and Security of self and others. Act independently, safely, promptly and efficiently in all situations with patients, colleagues and contractors.
- Take appropriate precautions to ensure safety when working with heavy loads.
- Follow departmental guidelines to ensure safety when working on open live electrical equipment, equipment with high pressures, high voltage capacitors, dangerous mechanical parts, dangerous RF / microwave fields, powerful light / laser outputs, dangerous radiation levels or hazardous chemicals and on equipment in the patient environment.
- Organise the provision of loan equipment from service providers on occasions when repairs cannot be achieved within a desired time scale, or in incident situations, to enable patient services to be maintained.
- Contribute to and participate in regular meetings with Medical Engineering Management to improve departmental performance.
- When appropriate undertake project work
- Be involved in the creation and updating of complex written procedures for the performance and functional verification of medical devices.
- Work unsupervised to Professional Standards in compliance with Department of Health guidelines, relevant standards set by Regulatory Bodies and Departmental Procedures.
- Use technical expertise and clinical experience to identify potentially hazardous symptoms and faults and act to ensure safety. In conjunction with senior staff, report novel fault conditions to the manufacturers and the MHRA.
- Analyse the impact of equipment maintenance on service provision and work to minimise detrimental effects
- Be familiar with and follow the Trust’s reporting procedure for sickness, annual leave and flexi-time
- Carry out the regular maintenance, calibration, function checking and electrical safety testing of a range of complex medical equipment ensuring it is safe and complies with the manufacturer’s specification.
- Prioritise planned preventative maintenance and medical equipment breakdown requests with departmental colleagues to ensure that the overall maintenance plan is achieved and repairs are made as quickly and as efficiently as possible
- Acceptance test / commission new equipment ensuring that it is as ordered, is electrically safe, meets manufacturer’s specifications and MHRA guidelines and is appropriately CE marked.
- Function and electrically safety test equipment upon its return from external repair and before its release to users.
- Assess the seriousness and implications of reported problems and respond appropriately to the urgency of the user’s request. Ensure that the users receive a high quality, prompt and efficient service and are kept informed of the progress of on-going and outstanding work.
- Where necessary, use skills, knowledge and understanding of the clinical applications of medical devices to assist the user with potentially faulty equipment that may still be attached to the patient.
- Apply specialised fault finding techniques to diagnose complex problems and make repairs down to component level using expertise, precision engineering techniques and fine control of tools and small components.
- Take responsibility for all tools and specialised test equipment within the post holder’s care and assist in ensuring workshop facilities are kept clear and well ordered.
- Act as Duty Engineer when requested and attend to urgent repairs immediately, distribute demand repair work to colleague engineers and return completed equipment to users.
- Be familiar with software in computer based medical equipment systems and microprocessor based equipment so that faults can be accurately identified and corrected.
- Appraise loan equipment provided for evaluation and advise user during trials of appropriateness for purpose and future maintainability.
- Be responsible in the care, use and maintenance of vehicles as required, and in the safe delivery of devices by whatever means.
- Raise orders for spare parts, the dispatch of repairs and engineer call-out dealing with subsequent financial queries regarding price verification and delivery of goods and services
- Ensure that stocks of any components and spare parts used, do not fall below agreed levels.