Medical Electronics Technician

Job summary

We have a Band 5 vacancy for an enthusiastic and motivated technician to play a key supporting role in the care and maintenance of a broad range of medical equipment. The job will be based at St Jamess Hospital in Leeds and will involve work across all the Hospital sites. This is an opportunity for a skilled electronics technician to discover a challenging and rewarding career working with the vast range of equipment used in the treatment and diagnosis of patients here in one of the UKs largest teaching hospitals. Work will be within the healthcare team and complement the work of the existing technical staff.

You will have a degree or have an equivalent qualification in electronic engineering with knowledge of medical electronics, procedures and practice, underpinned by specific equipment training and demonstrable experience in the medical device maintenance field. Applicants with lesser qualifications but can demonstrate knowledge gained through experience in the field will be considered under annex 21.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Engineering is split into four service teams, this post is based in the support team and the main duties include: -

Repair and Maintenance of sophisticated electronic / electromechanical medical devices in a range of clinical environments across our hospital sites and community sites within the region.

Lifecycle management of medical devices - procurement, acceptance, support and decommissioning.

Trust medical device compliance management.

Hazard and Field Safety management of medical devices.

Monitoring of Regulatory compliance of medical devices.

Managing medical devices loaned to the Trust.

Participation in the department's quality management system.

Training/mentoring of junior staff and some elements of user training.

Working with clinical users to diagnose faults with devices in hospital and clinical settings.

About us

Clinical Engineering is part of the Medical Physics department at Leeds Teaching Hospital's NHS Trust. The clinical engineering section is concerned with the application of engineering knowledge and medical technologies to support and advance patient care and splits into 3 main sections. Clinical services/rehabilitation engineering, medical devices risk & governance and medical equipment management.

Clinical Engineering has input to a wide variety of clinical specialisms in terms of medical device support and work with tens of thousands of assets from basics monitors through to life support ventilators and anaesthetic machines.

Our Trust is one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in the UK operating across five main sites with a common ethos to how we work and behave, 'The Leeds Way'. The Trust has programmes and benefits to support its employees from a subsidised gymnasium to lease car schemes.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. JOB DETAILS

Job Title: Medical Electronics Technician, Clinical Engineering

Reports to: Team Leader

Band: 5

Department: Medical Physics & Engineering

Location St Jamess Hospital/Leeds General Infirmary

AfC Job No: 792

2. JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY

The departments responsibilities include the management of an extensive range of highly specialist medical equipment and related services throughout the Trust, community and private healthcare including patient monitoring and life support equipment, surgical systems, anaesthesia systems, ventilators, infusion devices, ultrasound, x-ray, radiotherapy and medical laboratory equipment.

These services are delivered by teams of clinical technologists and the incumbent is a member of one of these teams, responsible to its Team Leader. Team members are jointly responsible for the repair and maintenance of several thousand items of medical equipment. Daily work will include providing calibration, safety checking, acceptance checking and repair of sophisticated patient monitoring, life support and other medical equipment. The technologist is expected to work closely and effectively with other technical staff and other colleagues (medical, nursing and laboratory) in the specialist clinical areas for which the team is responsible, to ensure delivery of a high-quality service.

3. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Responsible for the safe service, repair and calibration of equipment for use in clinical diagnosis, treatment and life support of patients. Work is guided by departmental procedures, quality manual documents and national recommendations with work objectives set monthly by team leader.

Uses own judgement to determine suitability of equipment (in terms of patient safety) for clinical use, undertakes risk assessments.

Provides basic support for specialist items such as intensive care and operating theatre equipment.

Evaluates new equipment as part of equipment purchasing strategy.

Carries out commissioning and acceptance testing on new medical equipment.

Prioritises breakdown calls and preventative maintenance tasks using knowledge of clinical need, accessibility, loan equipment availability etc.

Carries out authorised modifications to medical equipment. Also supports the construction of clinical devices as appropriate and under the direction of the Head of Clinical Engineering or designated deputy

Proposes changes to operational policies that may impact on own area and other professions.

Writes technical procedures for quality management system in own area of work using word processor, spread sheet etc.

Maintains the equipment inventory database by recording own work and own measurements on medical equipment.

Identifies and specifies spare parts and accessories to be ordered for own work and that of trainees.

Supervises and take part in the training activities of trainee technicians who may be allocated to him/her from time to time.

Participates in equipment support, relevant training and development of equipment users and of staff within Medical Physics.

Travels to other hospitals, health centres and patients homes if necessary for the execution of work.

4. THE LEEDS WAY VALUES

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-Centred

Collaborative

Fair

Accountable

Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values

Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to this post:

Respect for Patient Confidentiality

The jobholder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.

Patient and Public Involvement

The Trust has a statutory duty to involve patients and public in evaluating and planning services. All staff have a responsibility to listen to the views of patients and to contribute to service improvements based on patient feedback.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Significant demonstrable experience which should include exposure in the medical electronics discipline, procedure and practice Knowledge of a broad range of medical devices including life support equipment.

Desirable

Sound knowledge of computer database / skills.

Skills & behaviours

Essential

Proven ability to interpret complex facts, analyse and fault find on highly complex multi-faceted items of specialist medical equipment. Manual dexterity, accurate hand-eye co-ordination for use and use of precision tools / instruments in the repair of delicate medical equipment. Team working. Ability to work flexibly and to cope with large and unpredictable workload. Excellent communication skills. Ability to convey complex technical information to non-technical clinical / nursing staff.

Qualifications

Essential

Honours degree or equivalent in clinical engineering/ electronic engineering.

Desirable

Specialist medical equipment training.

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