Maintenance Assistant

3 weeks ago


Crewe, United Kingdom Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Maintenance Assistant to join the Medical Engineering team based at Leighton Hospital.

The role is to assist Medical Engineers and other trained staff in carrying out maintenance duties throughout the Hospital and other premises, though this is a varied role as the duties listed within the attached job description demonstrate.

You will be working as part of a small, friendly team who will soon be moving into a brand new purpose built department within Leighton Hospital.

Previous holders of this post have progressed through to Medical Engineer role when vacancies have arisen. Hence the reason for this vacancy

To undertake unsupervised routine maintenance, once deemed competent, on medical equipment that does not justify the attention of a fully qualified Medical Engineer.

Collecting Infusion Devices from and returning to the hospital loan store after carrying out a post patient functional check on them.

To be the first point of contact for callers, either in person or by telephone, to the Medical Engineering department.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE. The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.

**Job Description**:
Job Responsibilities

SERVICE DELIVERY

1. To undertake, as requested, unsupervised routine maintenance and Planned Preventative Maintenance that does not justify the attention of a fully qualified Engineer.

1. Provision of the hospital Loan Store facility, to ensure maximum availability of infusion pumps in the Loan Store.

1. Identify returning Loan Store pumps due for Planned Preventative Maintenance.

1. Initial point of contact (personal and telephone) into Medical Engineering. Resolve a range of issues without referring on.

1. Book all equipment returning to Medical Engineering into computer work tracking system.

1. Identify unusual trends or symptoms with test equipment or equipment under test in Loan Store pump test room, for further investigation at Supervisory level.

1. Organisation of total personal workload, including
- Loan Store, battery reconditioning and disposal, equipment returns to the wards, stock checks, telephone queries, waste disposal, mail delivery, work booking on computer system, post patient use checks on infusion pumps, nebulisers, Electrical Safety Testing, workshop cleanliness duties.

1. To assist Medical Engineers in the full range of their duties

The list provided is a summary of the main duties, not an exhaustive list



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