Medical Equipment Delivery and Deployment Manager

Medical Equipment Delivery and Deployment Manager

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Clinical Engineering/Project Management/Deployment Engineer/Medical Equipment Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ref 196-LIS9510

Employer Guy\’s and St Thomas\’ NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Brompton Hospital (and other sites as appropriate) Town London Salary £54,320 – £60,981 per annum inc HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 15/06/2025 23:59

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

You will have the opportunity to work on a fast-paced and exciting medical equipment programme across multiple sites with a current annual Clinical Group budget of over £5million and over 30 projects.

The post-holder is responsible for providing delivery and deployment support to ensure outputs of the overall programme are delivered effectively with a focus on patient safety during the implementation of medical equipment projects.

The post holder will take a lead on specific projects or aspects of projects as set by the programme manager with responsibility for the day-to-day delivery and deployment progress. The post holder will be expected to adjust plans as required to ensure that risks and issues are mitigated.

The post holder will need to work collaboratively with suppliers, clinicians, managers and other members of the Clinical Engineering department to ensure provision of the best possible patient experience and project delivery.

Main duties of the job

The key duties of the job are to ensure that medical equipment projects are implemented and deployed with a focus on patient safety andin line with project and overall programme timelines.

The post holder will be working closely with medical device trainers, Clinical Application Specialists and Service Leads, Clinical Engineering colleagues. They will have regular contact with a wide range of clinical and managerial staff, administrative and clerical support staff at many levels and with external suppliers and organisations.

The post holder is expected to workseamlessly and collaboratively with other members of Clinical Engineering to delivery projects safely and efficiently.

Working for our organisation

The Heart, Lung and Critical Care (HLCC) Clinical Group is part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and encompasses five hospital sites – Royal Brompton, Harefield, Wimpole St, St Thomas’ and Guy’s – providing cardiovascular, respiratory and critical care services. The services are delivered through the following directorates across the sites:

· Harefield Heart and Lung services

· Guy’s and St Thomas’ Cardiovascular services

· Pulmonary, Adult Critical Care and Sleep (Pulmonary/respiratory, adult critical care and sleep (PACCS)

· Rehabilitation & Therapies Directorate

The constituent hospitals have been responsible for some of the most significant medical breakthroughs ever made in the specialist field of cardiac and respiratory medicine. These include the first ever successful heart and lung transplant in Europe, and in the UK the first closing of a hole in the heart, the first coronary angioplasty, the first coronary stent and the first ever specialist centres treating polio and cystic fibrosis, both set up in the 1960s, and remain leading centres today.

You will be critical to ensuring the services of the Clinical Group can continue to run safely through provision and implementation of specialist medical equipment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the development of delivery and deployment project plans and the delivery of agreed milestones and objectives.
• Co-ordinate deployment of medical equipment projects including configuration workshops, training, communications, MDI, IT and Estates, bringing in specialist team members as required.
• Provide delivery and deployment expertise to the individuals in the project team and ensure that the leads have clear responsibilities, priorities, timescales and track delivery.
• Organise project meetings, ensuring that regular meetings are established, reports are produced and disseminated in a timely manner and actions are followed up on.
• Lead workshops and co-ordinate equipment trials with suppliers, procurement, engineering and clinical teams.
• Produce presentation material and follow up information to introduce change projects and delivery plans.
• Communicate information on the delivery progress of the project(s) to key stakeholders and programme manager as required.
• Provide scheduled highlight and exception reports per project, tracking milestones for circulation to project boards and stakeholders.
• Identify risks and support actions to mitigate these in order toensure successful delivery to time, and quality.
• Use appropriate project management practices in order to deliver the project/deploy medical equipment.
• Organise and monitor project resources to ensure their effective use while delivering against agreed objectives.
• Support evaluation and audit of projects across sites and organisations.
• Assist with other projects as informed by the programme manager.

Person specification

Knowledge

• Clinical/Medical Engineering, other technical or scientific educational background
• Formal qualification in Project management (PRINCE 2 or alternative project management qualification at practitioner level or equivalent qualification or demonstrated professional experience
• Knowledge and understanding of various acquisition contracts
• Knowledge of Clinical Engineering operations and / or project management methodologies and techniques
• Knowledge and understanding of the NHS environment and finance

Skills

• Effective people and project management skills
• Use analytical and judgement skills including understanding and application of complex statistical and numerical data
• Excellent interpersonal, communication (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and delegate effectively.
• Experience in writing business cases

Experience

• Experience of managing complex budgets from a range of income sources and demonstrable evidence of individual, team, financial, process and change management
• Evidence of managing successful projects and / or operational performance and improvement; including the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures
• Project Management experience in Medical Equipment Acquisitions and deployment

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Name Behnoush Tavana Job title Medical Equipment Programme Manager Email address Additional information

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Additional Contact:

Yoseph Mebrate (Head of Clinical Engineering)

Email: or telephone: 02073518659

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