Clinical Engineer

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Kings college hospital Town London Salary £47,951 - £56,863 per annum, including high cost allowance Salary period Yearly Closing 22/07/2026 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London.

The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance.

In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment.

We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

The post holder will provide technical support to the wider MEMS service, working across all aspects of clinical engineering to ensure that medical devices are managed and maintained to a high standard.

This will include working across device safety, replacement planning, asset register management and maintenance planning.

The post holder is primarily responsible for ensuring accurate asset records are created and maintained, leading inventory audits to validate data where required.

They will ensure suitable service levels are specified for both in-house and contracted out maintenance providers and that preventative maintenance activities are assigned and met in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

They will provide technical scrutiny of maintenance data in order to monitor and challenge providers where necessary and ensure technical and safety issues are followed up and resolved.

There is a requirement to accurately record technical information on the Trust medical device asset register and to design reports to query the database, ensuring transparent and robust device governance.

Main duties of the job

• Technical
• Collate and interpret complex technical information relating to the service and maintenance requirements of medical devices and utilise that information to make recommendations regarding required service frequency and level of maintenance cover.

Apply risk management techniques to decision making and maintain audit trials to demonstrate compliance with CQC regulations.

• Manage requests for new or replacement medical equipment, liaising with end users and suppliers to capture clinical and technical aspects of equipment specifications.
• Develop specifications for new equipment and related service and maintenance contracts and lead technical evaluations
• Respond to reports of adverse incidents involving medical devices.

This may involve the complex fault finding on medical equipment and the production of detailed written reports to summarise findings and recommend appropriate action.

• Interpret technical information from medical device related safety notices and ensure recommendations for remedial work are fully justified and actioned.
• Provide technical oversight of external maintenance providers and identify opportunities to bring outsourced work in-house.
• Give advice or support to colleagues or manufacturers when repair or maintenance falls inside own level of expertise.
• Inform users of reasons for faults/incidents involving medical devices, the action taken and how to avoid re-occurrence.
• Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Reporting and Analysis
• Manage the medical device asset register, including creating accurate records of medical devices commissioned within the Trust.
• Provide insights from multiple data sources to ensure equipment servicing is completed according to contract terms and planned schedules.
• Record equipment service history and update maintenance records on the Trust asset register.
• Monitor provider performance to ensure that the maintenance providers fulfils its contractual responsibilities.
• Query medical device asset registers to design reports and dashboards to reflect supplier performance. Present these reports at department level meetings

Deal with complex facts or situations which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options e. g. receiving information from users regarding equipment breakdown and acting in such a way as to minimise down time, service disruption and cost.

• Work with internal and external groups to ensure medical equipment maintenance records are kept up to date.
• Provide information upon request for Medical Device alerts and Freedom of information requests.
• Strategy and Planning
• Work with the medical device safety team to write and execute action plans to address issues arising from field safety notices, national patient safety alerts or adverse incidents involving medical device failure.
• Follow up actions from adverse incidents to support root cause analysis and learning from incidents.
• Act on user complaints and queries, investigate and report.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• Educated to degree/NVQ Level 6 in a relevant subject, or extensive knowledge, skills and experience in the field of equipment management and support.
• Professionally registered Healthcare Scientist.
• Knowledge and Experience
• Expert knowledge of clinical, scientific and engineering aspects of a wide range of medical equipment.
• High level of understanding of patient and staff risks arising from equipment failure.
• Experience of working with a wide range of people in different roles and at different levels of seniority both internal and external.
• Experience of working with equipment maintenance providers to ensure work is undertaken to the required standard.

Skills and Competencies

• Working knowledge of all Microsoft Office packages (e. g. word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and internet use)
• Able to assimilate, analyse and present complex data.
• Ability to cope with variety of tasks under pressure.
• Able to exercise own initiative and able to operate autonomously.
• High level of planning and organisational skills with a flexible and adaptable approach. And Able to negotiate issues of a technical and commercial nature.
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
• Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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