Assistant Clinical Technologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and dynamic assistant clinical technologist to join the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Team at the Whittington Health NHS Trust.

Key responsibilities, performing a range of technical activities on community medical devices across our integrated care organisation, including audits, repairs, maintenance, calibration, performance & safety checks, and acceptance checks on all community equipment.

The Whittington Health NHS Trust provides general hospital and community services to 500,000 people living in Islington and Haringey as well as other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield and Camden.

The post-holder will possess effective skills in communication; planning workloads and will be able to demonstrate motivation and customer focus in their way of working.

This post will require travelling between Whittington Health NHS Trust community sites.

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**Responsibilities**:
Key responsibilities, performing a range of technical activities on community medical devices across our integrated care organisation, including audits, repairs, maintenance, calibration, performance & safety checks, and acceptance checks on all community equipment.

To ensure that all jobs and maintenance work undertaken is recorded within the Equipment Management database and good practice is followed in record keeping whether work done by self or by others being supervised.

Correctly perform the regular maintenance of medical equipment in accordance with work procedures and to ensure that all equipment support activities conform at all times to the quality management system.

In liaison with the Team Leader, to establish areas and devices to be prioritised

Promptly identify any problems with medical equipment and ensure that those devices are removed from clinical areas and taken to the workshop for repair.

Planning and Organisation

To participate in a rota with other technologists, so as to ensure continuity of cover to all sites

To maintain and repair equipment according to agreed protocols, calling upon colleagues and/or Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) support and technical advice when required.

To work largely unsupervised but as part of a wider team providing technical and engineering support to clinical users.

To ensure that spare part stock levels are kept at levels consistent with workload demands.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

**Title**: Assistant Clinical Technologist

**Band**: 4

**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

Chief Technician

The post holder after the requisite training will be expected to and be capable of working independently.

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

Clinical

Responsible for accurate repair, maintenance and calibration of support equipment, equipment providing patient medication and producing diagnostic information

Management

To ensure patient safety, by making certain that all medical equipment is maintained according to manufacturer’s guidelines

To agree with clinical staff and clinical departments the scheduling of medical equipment maintenance

To prioritise, plan and organise own work schedules adjusting for emergency work

To propose and implement changes in policy or work procedures/instructions within own area

To be responsible for ordering spares and consumables within budget guidelines

To keep the medical equipment database up to date

To contribute and manage objectives as set within the Quality Management System

Advisory

To liaise with clinical staff on the safe use of medical equipment

To provide advice to non-technical clinical staff on the safe use of medical equipment. To assist in deciding whether medical equipment should be removed from clinical use

Education & Training

To undertake formal manufacturer technical training courses to maintain a