Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Medical Equipment Technician (Electronics)
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About Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe, the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
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The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
Responsibilities
Clinical Engineering (CE) provides services to ensure that the Trust's medical devices are operating effectively and safely with the minimum of downtime. Medical devices include all electrical, electronic, mechanical, and medical gas systems used to diagnose and treat patients.
The role is site-based (at RPH), covering core service hours on a rota system and is responsible to the Head of Clinical Engineering.
Main Duties
- Preventative maintenance, servicing, repair, calibration, and acceptance testing on a wide range of equipment within the electrical / electronic sphere
- Written/verbal communication for both simple and complex medical device-related information in such a way as to ensure the stakeholders' full understanding and comprehension, and to minimise any barrier(s) in understanding
- Support other team members when required with work that falls outside of own expertise and seek support and advice if needed
- Accurate data input into the CE department equipment management system
- Work to and maintain a good knowledge of appropriate legislation(s), policies and procedures, and quality standards
- Adhere to health and safety regulations
- Participation in the Clinical Engineering On-Call rota is a requirement of the role. The post-holder must be available and contactable on a rota basis out of hours for urgent advice and repair if required for medical equipment.
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Qualifications
- B Eng qualified or equivalent
- Flexible work approach
- Good time management
- Innovative
- Computer literate with attention to detail/accuracy
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Self-motivated
- Able to work under pressure, to tight deadlines, remain calm, and organised.
Uphold the Trust's values:
- Compassion
- Excellence
- Collaboration
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