East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Specialist Mechanical Engineer/Workshop Manager
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Job Description
We are recruiting for a Machinist/Mechanical Engineer/Specialist Mechanical Engineer/Workshop Manager who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The Bioengineering team provides a repair, maintenance, and manufacture service to the cancer centre. The department is split into 3 sections - the mechanical workshop, EBME, and radiotherapy engineering. All three teams work together to ensure that cancer patients are treated in a safe and timely manner.
Responsibilities
- The mechanical workshop provides a manufacturing service for the cancer centre producing customised equipment that cannot readily be purchased.
- Candidates must be flexible and keen to be involved in helping patients. They will be innovative in finding solutions to the challenges that they are given within the resources of the NHS.
- Work closely with the radiographers and physics staff to produce patient-specific, custom shielding and other aids to ensure that radiotherapy treatment can be performed in a reproducible and safe way.
- Provide specialist mechanical workshop services to the cancer centre including 3D printing and machining in a range of materials (both metals and plastics). Use skills to design, manufacture, and repair patient-specific aids.
- Work with the physics staff to design and manufacture equipment to be used by them to test equipment.
- Work with the other engineering teams to ensure our equipment is ready for patient use. This could involve the manufacture or repair of parts, testing, servicing, calibration, and repair of equipment.
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Requirements
We will consider candidates with a range of experience from those who have recently completed apprenticeships to those with a number of years of experience. The appropriate banding will be discussed with candidates at interview.
Benefits
In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £4,870 and a maximum payment of £6,137 per annum pro rata.
Core Values
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Working Environment
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
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We Run The Following Hospitals
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We are committed to a positive work-life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Karen Venables
- Job title: Head of Radiotherapy Physics and Bioengineering
- Email address: karen.venables@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07825023749
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