Medical Engineer - Entry Level Prescot, England
Job description
We are looking for an Entry Level Medical Engineer to join a small specialist team of engineers who maintain and repair medical devices across St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The successful candidate will be working on a wide range of medical devices and inputting all the relevant information onto a management system for audit purposes. They will also have to liaise with clinical staff, their colleagues and outside medical suppliers.
The candidate must have a minimum qualification of an HNC in engineering and experience is preferable in the field of engineering.
St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside and one of the few in the country to achieve OUTSTANDING rated by the Care Quality Commission.
We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across the North West, North Wales, and Isle of Man. We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.
Our '5 Star Patient Care' strategy is at the heart of what we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.
Our latest achievements include:
- Acute Trust of the Year HSJ Awards November 2019
- Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
- Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
- Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
- Standard of care
- Best place to work
- Care of patients being the Trust’s priority
- Staff engagement
- Staff morale
- Compassionate & inclusive
- Providing safe environments for staff
To act as a member of a multi-disciplinary team of Medical Engineers. Duties include the commissioning, maintenance and repair of medical equipment: including patient monitors, patient therapy and diagnostic equipment.
See job description for more detail.
KEY DUTIES
- To display a high standard of self-discipline and attitude to work, in view of the nature of equipment and its location.
- To liaise with other healthcare professionals clients and external organisations in order to resolve any issues.
- To work unsupervised for long periods, although advice will always be available.
- To be able to plan own workload; carry out acceptance and safety testing of new equipment, repairs and planned preventative maintenance.
- To calibrate medical equipment by using expensive test equipment
- To be competent in the use of precision and fine tools
- There is a regular requirement to maintain and repair equipment that is subject to contamination of hazardous substances and body fluids.
- To be aware of cost implication when carrying out repairs and planned preventative maintenance.
- To attend all wards and departments on a regular basis to perform maintenance and where necessary to perform unplanned repairs.
- On occasion there will be a requirement to move heavy medical equipment such as theatre tables, microscopes etc. whilst carrying out repairs or PPM.
- To undertake duties of other staff as necessary.
- To observe guidelines and regulation regarding the safe and satisfactory use of expensive test equipment and tools.
- To work in areas, as necessary, where the Trust currently provides medical equipment support service.
