Medical Equipment Library Team Leader

7 months ago


Northampton, United Kingdom Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Full time

Our Medical Equipment Library manages in excess of 2000 medical devices. We are looking for an organised, proactive and resourceful team leader to lead this service and to support the wider Clinical Engineering service within the Trust.

Contribute to the asset management of medical devices and associated stock in multiple locations.

Supervise day to day work of Medical Equipment Library colleagues and ensure operations run smoothly and efficiently.

Play a leadership role in the area of medical equipment decontamination, ensuring guidelines and manufacturers recommendations are followed, and any decontamination issues are promptly reported and escalated if necessary.

Collect and deliver medical equipment, accessories, and consumables.

Communicate with differing levels of staff in relation to the supply or removal of equipment. Traveling to offsite locations in the delivery of duties.

Process and record orders and rental requisitions, including loans, through the use
of a dedicated database and direct communication with suppliers.

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values

Compassion

Accountability

Respect

Integrity

Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.

We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

Determine requirements with clinical staff and plan review meetings to ensure that minimum and maximum equipment levels and regularity of use are determined and maintained.

Obtain information from suppliers in relation to quotes, delivery commitments and timescales. Analyse and present information to customers and suppliers.

Organise and oversee evaluations and clinical trials in conjunction with the Electro Biomedical colleagues.

Carry out maintenance, safety testing and performance verification following set
procedures for low-risk medical equipment. Where requested, carry out and/or
arrange for the proper cleaning of medical devices.

Check equipment for validity of service by checking labels and equipment integrity, organising repairs and services where required.

Receive and deliver equipment accessory and consumable stock.

Manage stocks and invoices for accuracy ensuring that discrepancies in stock receipts are dealt with through appropriate channels.

Manages lost, damaged, and returned equipment with suppliers.

Contribute to the Trust’s incident investigations and the sharing of lessons learnt as instructed by the Trust’s Medical Devices Safety Officer.

Manage equipment store locations to ensure provision of service by reviewing and monitoring stock levels on a daily basis.

Resolve ad hoc equipment management issues, within own remit, as they arise.

Maintain accurate written and electronic asset data and provide information on
requests to colleagues.

Ensure that there is sufficient equipment to meet patient needs, available at all times and kept in full working order.

Ensure own professional development is maintained, keeping abreast of developments in medical devices issues, including attending external meetings, seminars and conferences.

Undertake other duties and tasks, which may arise, and may reasonably be deemed to come within the scope of the post.

Participate in rostered on-call or shift system as required to deliver an effective library and training service.



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