Medical Devices Safety Officer

4 weeks ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds Teaching Hospitals Full time

**. JOB DETAILS Job Title**: Medical Devices Safety Officer Reports to: Technical Service Manager Band: Band 5 Department: Medical Physics & Engineering Location St Jamess Hospital AfC Job No: 2550 2. JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY This post is a customer-facing one, where the post holder will work with clinical teams on medical devices governance (adverse incidents Trust-wide, maintenance and training compliance, inventory data quality). The post-holder will prepare monitoring reports from databases and then liaise with clinical teams to plan actions.

The post is based St Jamess. The Medical Physics & Engineering (MP&E) Departments responsibilities include the management of an extensive range of highly specialist medical equipment and related services throughout the Trust, community and private healthcare. The department provides a medical equipment library on both main Trust sites, coordinates and provides medical devices training, provides maintenance for Trust medical devices and liaises with external maintenance suppliers to arrange and monitor external maintenance. It also monitors compliance with regulatory standards for medical device management.

Post holder works across whole Trust to monitor incidents on Datix together with investigation outcomes, identifies and facilitates required actions. They work with and advise clinical teams on medical device issues in order to improve safety. They make suggestions for operational policies that impact on medical devices governance across the whole Trust. Prepares medical device reports from adverse incident system (Datix), equipment inventory, Trust Medical Devices Training database and has responsiblity for maintaining records on those systems.

Liaises with MHRA on Medical devices safety. Clinical-facing role which links to Medical Physics &Engineering equipment maintenance teams, medical device training team and equipment pool staff. 3. ORGANISATIONAL CHART Head of Clinical Engineering | Technical Services Manager | Post Holder----- Medical Devices Safety Officer The post holder has no line management responsibilities.

4. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY Writes queries for SQL databases regularly eg Datix. Runs Trust-wide, medical device-related monitoring reports on adverse Incidents, staff Training and Maintenance and reports findings to Medical Devices Group. Prepares departmental assurance reports for Clinical Engineering services.

(for example covering turnaround of work, patient waiting time, responses to Field Safety Notices. Liaises with other medical device management teams to identify outcomes of incident investigations. Use judgement to weigh up factors to identify and advise on learning from complex medical device incidents. Works with Clinical teams on learning from Medical devices incidents and patient safety.

Work is often unwelcome, such that sensitivity, negotiation and persuasion are required. Trains staff on specific medical devices (e.g. controllers for beds) and software (E.g. MELVIS).

Plans and organises routine meetings, mindful of the need for re-prioritisation due to clinical demand. Work is guided by departmental and Trust procedures, and national guidelines. Travels to other hospitals, health centres and patients homes if necessary to carry out work. 5.

THE LEEDS WAY VALUES Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are: Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to this post: Patient safety. Timeliness, safety, reliability and quality in all work.

Delivery of quality improvement outcomes. 6. WEST YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF ACUTE TRUSTS (WYAAT) Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients. By bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving forward change to deliver the highest quality care.

By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change. WYAAT is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The Partnerships ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that ambition. 7.

INFECTION CONTROL The jobholder must comply at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Infection Control policies, in particular by practising Universal In

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