Medical Equipment Library Officer

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond - **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
**Are you keen and enthusiastic? Can you be relied upon to support staff working in a front line patient environment? Then you may be who we are looking for.**

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as part of a dynamic, evolving team within Medical Equipment Libraries at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group in the role of Medical Equipment Library Officer.

Possessing excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills, you must be able to work autonomously and as part of our team. We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual to rotate between the hospitals and existing equipment libraries.

**Main duties of the job**:
You will be responsible for (but not limited to) the delivery, retrieval and cleaning of medical devices from the medical equipment library on an operational level.

You will provide guidance to nursing and other staff in use of medical devices and promote the use of the medical equipment library across the organisation.

You shall participate in the performance of the library to ensure the medical equipment library service functions effectively to deliver the required service to clinical areas. You should have strong influencing and negotiation skills and should have a good knowledge of medical devices.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Evidence of Level 2 qualifications in numeracy and literacy.
- NVQ level 3 or equivalent in administration or care or relevant experience

**Desirable criteria**:

- ECDL or evidence of ability to use databases, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft word

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of medical equipment within the NHS or within a similar organisation
- Previous experience of working in a team
- Flexible attitude towards work
- Ability to work unsupervised
- A basic knowledge of the range of medical equipment items

**Desirable criteria**:

- Basic knowledge of the use of medical equipment
- Current, full and clean driving license

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