Medical Engineering Technician

Main area Clinical Engineering Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent: Hours 9am-5pm Monday to Friday Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ref 214-CSTO-7265225

Employer Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Kings Mill Hospital Town Sutton in Ashfield Salary £31,049 – £37,796 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 25/09/2025 23:59 Interview date 08/10/2025

Medical Engineering Technician

NHS AfC: Band 5

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Job overview

Join Our Multi-Disciplinary Team – A Unique Opportunity Awaits!

Are you passionate about technology and healthcare? This is your chance to become part of a dynamic team where your enthusiasm and willingness to learn will be valued and nurtured.

We’re looking for someone who is eager to gain broad experience in the maintenance of medical equipment, with a strong foundation in electronics and a commitment to professional development.

What You’ll Be Doing:

You’ll play a key role in supporting the Clinical/Technical services of MEMD, including:

• Planned maintenance of medical devices
• Assisting with repairs, acceptance testing, and equipment condemnation
• Servicing community-deployed sleep therapy/CPAP devices in respiratory clinics

What You’ll Need:

Or a willingness to complete such a course under Annex 21

What You’ll Gain:

Progression through the MEMD competence profile

Attendance at manufacturer training courses for complex medical devices

Experience working within a BSI ISO 9001:2015 registered Quality System

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialised clinical technical services for planned preventive maintenance (PPM), servicing, inspection and repair to a wide range of complex and patient-critical medical devices and systems.
• Undertake advanced fault-finding. Apply suitable fault-finding techniques to diagnose problems.
• Contribute to the condemnation of medical devices, ensuring their safe disposal.
• Acceptance test medical equipment and devices where appropriate, covering loan and newly delivered medical devices. This involves evaluating medical devices to ensure compliance to the prevailing NHS England recommendations.
• Contribute to the introduction of recently accepted devices into clinical service.

Working for our organisation

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Person specification

Contractual Requirements

• Working towards registration as a Clinical Technologist
• Driving Licence

Knowledge

• Awareness and understanding of medical device management principles
• Communication/interpersonal skills, commensurate with effective team working and liaison with clinical and professional colleagues
• A range knowledge and skills in using computer technology both for general use and in medical device applications
• Advance engineering and workshop skills
• Knowledge of the clinical application of medical devices
• Contribute, initially, under guidance, to the Clinical Engineering services of MEMD including acceptance testing repair, planned maintenance, and condemnation
• Working towards independent practitioner status, they must acquire the knowledge and skills required for registration as a Clinical Technologist.

Qualifications

• BEng in electronics or equivalent. Candidates with a lower qualification may be taken on via Annex 21 in a training role to reach this minimum level.
• Knowledge at equivalent standard gained through relevant experience/training

Further Training

• Will have attended a range of manufacturer’s technical training courses

Experience

• A minimum of 2 years experience of planned maintenance and repairs to a wide range of electrical/electronic/mechanical devices
• Experience working within Healthcare Environment

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

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Please note that we no longer accept handwritten/paper applicationsand that the email address given on your application will be used for all correspondence regarding this post.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Priority for vacancies at the Trust will be given to existing employees of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust whose roles are currently at risk of redundancy due to organisational change.

Only applications received on or before the closing date will be considered for short listing. This is to ensure that the Trust meets its commitment to Equality of Opportunity.
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Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The Trust will pay for the check initially and then the money will then be deducted from your first salary once you\’ve commenced employment. The current price of a check is £26.40 for a standard check and £54.40 for an enhanced. If you are asked to complete a DBS check and have a previous identity that you do not wish to be disclosed to your employer and/or on your DBS certificate, you should call or email the dedicated sensitive applications team before submitting your application. The team is experienced in dealing with sensitive cases and will advise you of the process and what you need to do.

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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.