About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Clinical Engineer to join our team at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. As a Clinical Engineer, you will be responsible for the commissioning, maintenance, calibration, and repair of a wide range of medical diagnostic and therapeutic devices.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide specialized clinical technical services for preventative maintenance, servicing, inspection, and repair to complex and patient-critical medical devices and laboratory equipment.
• Carry out calibration, quality control, safety, commissioning, and acceptance testing.
• Mentor junior engineers and represent Clinical Engineering in Trust projects.

About Us

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England. We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex.

Person Specification

• Ordinary National Certificate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
• City and Guilds Telecommunication Technicians Technological Certificate
• City and Guilds Electronic Technicians Technical Certificate.

Desirable Qualifications

• Higher National Certificate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
• Degree in Biomedical Engineering
• Registration as a Clinical Technologist

Essential Experience

• Experience in applying workshop technology to electronic & electro-mechanical equipment.

Desirable Experience

• Practical experience in electronic and medical engineering workshop practices and techniques for at least 3 years post-qualification

Key Skills

• Good negotiation skills
• Able to deliver teaching and training on complex equipment to other professional groups (e.g. train nurses in medical device use).
• Able to train groups of other professional staff
• Able to communicate complex information across professional boundaries (e.g. fault finding in an emergency call out, to minimise misunderstanding and obtain the required information).
• Ability to manage confrontational situations, involving the safe use of medical devices within the clinical environment

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