Specialist Medical Equipment Technician in Southend-on-Sea

MEMS provide total medical equipment management services to Basildon, Southend and Mid Essex Hospitals. This includes Procurement, Acceptance, Maintenance and Service, co-ordinate clinical staff training and decommissioning and disposal.

The role is responsible to ensure that equipment operates effectively and safely with the minimum of downtime. Clinical equipment covered incorporates complex electrical, electronic, mechanical, computer and medical gas based systems.

You will provide support to electrical and electronic related medical equipment, which includes the scheduled planned preventative maintenance (PPM), servicing, repair, calibration and acceptance testing on a wide range of medical equipment within the electrical/ electronic field.

You will help promote understanding of the medical equipment concept within the Trust and support development and delivery of associated work programmes.

• Perform a range of technical duties, guided by procedures involving autonomous work on both general and complex medical equipment in the clinical and workshop environment to ensure the optimum effectiveness, reliability, availability and safety of medical devices.
• To commission, calibrate, deploy and maintain a wide range of complex medical devices e.g. Infusion Devices, Patient Monitoring, Defibrillators, etc.
• Working on life support equipment whilst still connected to patients where necessary.
• Investigate and test medical devices, analysing the results to diagnose faults or problems on complex medical devices.
• Demonstrating equipment operation and techniques to individual clinical users where this is a solution to a problem.
• Communication of investigation results to users, colleagues and suppliers, sharing knowledge and experience.
• Using primarily computerised systems, make accurate equipment maintenance history records and other information supporting audit, quality and performance monitoring.
• Ensure all duties are delivered in an efficient, safe, professional and organised way according to Section policies, procedures and Health and Safety documentation.
• Ensure all medical devices are ready for deployment from the Medical Equipment Library and respond in an empathetic and proficient manner for faults relating to patient connected equipment.
• Using knowledge and experience of clinical procedures involving medical devices, liaise with clinical and technical staff to ensure medical devices are deployed and used safely and where appropriate contribute to the training of technical, medical and nursing staff and patients in the proper care and effective use of medical devices.
• Liaise with medical device suppliers to obtain technical and commercial information in relation to equipment maintenance and evaluation.
• First line support of instrumentation interfaces to specialist clinical computer systems, liaising with IT to resolve problems as necessary.
• Monitor stocks and initiate orders to ensure the timely and adequate procurement of medical device parts and accessories to maintain devices in a serviceable condition.
• In consultation with Medical Equipment Team Leader, comment and contribute to planned maintenance schedules and section procedures to develop the service in an effective and efficient manner.
• Participate in departmental meetings to ensure continued development of the department and its effective use of a quality system (ISO9001:2015).
• Liaise with users and other team members to prioritise and plan own workload to ensure optimum efficiency in responding appropriately to urgent requests.
• Complete and review equipment and job audits to ensure quality and performance targets are met.
• Work activities may involve the exposure to unpleasant conditions e.g. body fluids and distressing situations in clinical environments.
• Supervise, monitor and train Junior MEMS staff, providing quality checks and mentorship for those staff.
• Take part in the MEMS on Call Rota for out of hours cover.
• Maintain personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the job, participate in appropriate training activities and encourage and support staff development and training.

• Qualifications: Degree Level Electronics or equivalent.
• Knowledge: Test Equipment, Quality systems, Safety Testing - 601 etc, Database - any, Dialysis Equipment.
• Supervision: Working to own workload, prioritising workload, Supervision of other staff.

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

For any info required or informal visits, please contact Mark Thomas, Renal Team Leader at mark.thomas39@nhs.net.