Clinical Technologist

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Whittington Health NHS Trust Full time

Clinical Technologist Band 6

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Technologist within the Clinical Engineering Team at the Whittington Health NHS Trust.

The post is for a Clinical Technologist with experience in the servicing of medical equipment and associated skills in clinical measurement and procedures.

The holder will be able to work as part of a team providing day to day support to all clinical areas.

Working at other Whittington Health NHS Trust sites may be required on occasions.

A good knowledge of the function and calibration of medical instrumentation and associated quality assurance and safety procedures is necessary.

The post holder will be responsible for all remedial repairs, Planned Preventative Maintenance and calibration of a wide range of medical devices. This will include patient monitors, infusion devices. In addition the acceptance into use and configuration of newly delivered medical devices and the evaluation of medical devices prior to purchase. On occasions this work will extend to non-medical electronic devices.

The post holder will be expected to work without any immediate managerial or supervisory support.

Manufacture training will be provided where needs are highlighted and in consultation between head of medical physics and the medical physics senior technologist.

The Whittington Hospital has a reputation as one of the safest hospitals in England. As an integrated care organisation, providing both hospital and community services, we offer a range of development opportunities along with attractive benefits to staff at all levels of our organisation.

Our aim is to provide outstanding care. Care that is better coordinated, in the right place and designed around individual patient’s needs. This means we can bring high quality services closer to home and speed up communication between community and hospital services, improving our patients’ experience.

**Job Description**:
**Title**: Clinical Technologist

**Band**: 6

**Hours of Duty**: 37.5 hours per week

**Annual Leave**: 27 days per annum

29 days after 5 years NHS service

33 days after 10 years NHS service

**Department**: Medical Physics Department

**Accountable to**: Director of Surgery and Cancer ICSU

Director of Operations Surgery and Cancer ICSU

Head of Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering

Chief Technician

**Main duties**:
**All Clinical Technologists must be able to**:
Adhere to all Trust and department policies and procedures.

Undertake suppliers and other external training provider’s courses to enable competency to be established in the support of a wide range of medical devices. They will undertake departmental training events and gain further experience by working on occasions, under the supervision of senior staff.

They will be expected to participate in a scheme of continuing professional development that is recognised by and registered with an appropriate professional body.

The post holder will experience an annual appraisal.

They will contribute to the supervision of newly appointed staff.

They will have General and specific responsibilities, defined in terms of product type or location

Develop skills to use a wide range of test and measurement equipment, some of which are specific to the healthcare sector, to enable faults to be diagnosed and corrected on complex equipment, to module or component level.

To develop skills and knowledge of junior colleagues to enable them to work on new medical devices initially under supervision and once competency is signed off, to work unsupervised.

On occasions they will be involved in patient incident investigations; this may involve access to sensitive patient related data for analysis and interpretation.

The daily work will involve the inspection and interaction with delicate, high value medical devices. The correct function and availability for use of these devices have a direct effect on patient care.

The post holder will be responsible for communicating with senior nursing and clinical staff in defining, recording and controlling configurations relating to medical devices.

All medical physics technologist will log on the departments dedicated CMMS at start of day and log off at the end of their work day. Will be responsible for updating the details on the computerised equipment management system relating to any work that has been allocated to them. They will maintain accurate, legible and retrievable electronic/written records (job reports) relating to the work that they have undertaken.

They will complete requisitions to initiate the procurement of spares and external services for which a requirement has been identified. This is then sent for approval to the Head of Medical Physics.

The post holder will be responsible for the generation of work instructions and maintenance checklists, as directed by the Head of Medical Physics.

They will be responsible for the safe retrieval of medical devices from the clinical envir


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