Deputy Head of Clinical Engineering
3 weeks ago
Job summary
The Deputy Head of Clinical Engineering/Clinical Engineering Expert has a leadership and management responsibility for the on-going development of a high quality Clinical Engineering service.
Implicit in the role is the provision of specialist expertise and advice for a wide range of highly complex medical equipment used for the examination, diagnosis and treatment of patients.
The post-holder is a key leader in the challenge to improve the profile of Clinical Engineering, providing expertise to senior management groups within the trust.
The post-holder line manages the workshop leads on the trust's 3 main sites, providing clinical technical and professional leadership at a strategic level, ensuring the medical equipment management and maintenance services meets the needs of the trust.
It is essential for the post-holder to work effectively with professionals from a wide range of disciplines with knowledge and understanding as the trust develops and implements its Sustainability Transformation Plan.
The post is firmly based in supporting the wide-ranging clinical services for the ultimate benefit of patients. Part of this work is to pro-actively identify upcoming medical equipment replacement requirements and pro-actively contribute to the trusts' transformation plans.
Main duties of the job
Expert Practice
Is the lead Clinical Engineering Expert (CEE) for a wide range of highly complex medical equipment used for the examination, diagnosis and treatment of patients. Provide expert clinical scientific/technical advice to clinical teams and other professional staff on the specification, tender, evaluation, selection, purchase, configuration and safe and effective use of medical equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of patients. Achieve optimum clinical, operational and financial solutions. Provide expert advice to senior management teams on strategic clinical developments and medical equipment capital replacement programme. Advise and guide the safety work of the trust's Clinical Applications Engineers/Medical Device Safety Officers providing expertise and audit in the investigation of adverse incidents, responses to Field Safety Notices, MHRA Medical Device Alerts as necessary. Provide advice and agree configuration settings for new medical equipment with clinical users so that each device in the clinical arena looks and performs the same - an important patient safety consideration.
About us
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
Job description
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
BSc Honours degree (1st or 2nd class) in a relevant subject or equivalent & MSc in relevant specialist subject or equivalent Membership of IPEM or on Register Clinical Technologists
Desirable
Chartered Engineer CEng / Chartered Scientist PhD in relevant subject area or equivalent
Specific Requirements
Essential
Knowledge of national / international policies/guidance/standards and initiatives in Health Technology Management.
Desirable
Previous experience in managing Clinical Engineering KPIs
Evidence of Particular Knowledge Skills and Aptitutes
Essential
Extensive specialist knowledge of patient connected medical equipment. Extensive specialist knowledge of delivery of clinical services within an acute hospital and the relationships between clinical service delivery and medical equipment and services. Ability to communicate effectively scientific concepts to other disciplines. Ability to work with other disciplines in a clinical setting. Ability to use MS Office applications effectively
Desirable
Range of IT skills including understanding of networked medical equipment systems.
Previous Experience
Essential
Substantial experience in role of Clinical Engineering Expert Substantial experience in developing tender specifications and leading purchase process through to completion. Experience in developing medical equipment configuration settings. Experience in undertaking root cause analysis of adverse incidents Excellent organisational skills in leading a multi-disciplinary team Excellent organisational skills in leading a multi-disciplinary team and ability to manage staff
Desirable
Record of publications / presentations-
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