Clinical Technologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a new team member to join our Clinical Engineering team at Norfolk Community Health & Care Trust.

The post holder will be involved in the whole life cycle of our medical devices from the acceptance phase through preventative maintenance, repair activity & then finally safe & appropriate disposal. They will find themselves challenged by technical problems where an understanding of engineering, electronics & computing will be needed to enable them to offer solutions to complex problems. Good communication skills will be needed to convey complex matters in a concise manner.

Main Duties

To commission and decommission medical devices. Following MHRA Medical Device Management guidelines and trust policies.

To demonstrate mechanical, electrical and electronic principles to support with the routine maintenance and reactive repairs of the trusts clinical equipment.

To provide support and advice to clinicians and other members of the Clinical Engineering team, to find solutions to complex issues.

Maintain the trusts equipment asset register and ensure all works on medical devices are accurately recorded.

Ensure continuous professional development (CPD) is maintained throughout employment and to attend relevant manufacturer training courses.

To adhere to and demonstrate the NCHC trust values.

Good benefits package including a minimum 27 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays, increasing after 5 years and 10 years to a maximum of 33 days

Opportunity to join the NHS pension scheme.

Wellbeing support (gyms, free eyesight test, cycle to work scheme, wellbeing resources)

Free parking at most sites

Supportive positive culture that is Well-Led with regular supervision

Comprehensive in house and external training programmes available

NHS discounts and many more

Clinical Scientific

**The post holder will**:
Provide technical support through carrying out servicing, inspection and repair / maintenance, calibration, safety and acceptance testing on a range of delicate and sensitive medical equipment, requiring high levels of dexterity and coordination, along with a use of sensory skills and precision tools.

Ensure that equipment is readily available to service users.

Ensure the prompt delivery of requested items to service users and collect items as required.

Clean and decontaminate equipment between return and reissue.

Provide administrative support to the team including updating job and device records in the medical equipment management database.

Support with the procurement, the associated record keeping and the administering of the calibration of test equipment, escalating to Senior colleagues for more complex scenarios as required.

Adopt and promote a customer focused culture, understanding customer requirements and ensuring that complex and sensitive communication to service users and patients is appropriate, timely and effective.

Demonstrate their own duties to other members of the team for a shared and continual learning experience and training of new and developing colleagues

**Duties include**:
To provide day-to-day technical support, working primarily unsupervised for much of the day.

Carrying out regular (at least daily) rounds to collect equipment no longer in use; negotiating with clinical users to ensure equipment is not required.

Cleaning and disinfecting equipment before it is put back into use - using knowledge of cross-infection risks and infection control policies and procedures.

Carrying out functional tests, identifying faulty equipment, logging the fault on the equipment management database.

Rectify equipment faults. Undertake repairs on mechanisms to component level.

Check that equipment performs to manufacturer’s specifications

Carry out calibration, quality control and safety testing.

Advise on equipment specification, evaluation and selection to support with compliant and robust procurement. Supporting at clinical evaluation trials / open days.

Report problems associated with user error to the medical device training team.

Assist with ensuring all requests, deliveries and collections are logged into the computerised equipment management system so that the loan status of all equipment is kept updated. This includes logging out-of-hours loans.

Carrying out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) on a range of clinical equipment, using test equipment, to ensure that manufacturers’ functional and safety specifications are met.

Negotiating with service users to ensure that equipment is available for PPM.

Provide technical support to assess the performance, diagnose faults and carry out repairs to a range of clinical equipment and medical devices using a range of appropriate techniques.

Rectify equipment faults to component level, with more complex faults referred to senior colleagues as required.

Carry out electrical safety tests to identify any potentially hazardous equipment.

Carry out repairs in isolation rooms under the Trus