Job summary
We have a vacancy for an enthusiastic and motivated specialist technician to play a key supporting role in the care and maintenance of a broad range of life support medical equipment. The job will be based at St. James hospital but will necessitate working across the Trusts other sites. This is an opportunity for a skilled Medical Electronics Technician to discover a challenging and rewarding career working with the vast range of equipment used in life support, treatment and diagnosis of patients.
You will have a degree or equivalent qualifications in electronic engineering with knowledge of medical electronics, procedures and practice, underpinned by specific equipment training. You will either be a registered technologist or able to achieve this within the first year of appointment.
Informal enquiries may be made to the Technical Services Manager,
Mr. Tim Hutchinson at St James telephone number, (0113 20) 64153.
Expected Shortlisting Date
18/09/2024
Planned Interview Date
03/10/2024
Main duties of the job
1. Repair & maintenance of complex, specialist medical devices from a wide range of clinical specialities.
2. Inventory management using a database of over 50,000 assets
3. First line response to field breakdown and technical enquiries across five hospital sites.
4. Technical support and advice to users of medical therapeutic and diagnostic devices.
5. Working with a team and Team Leader to manage workloads and meet performance targets.
6. Managing the planned maintenance of medium and high risk devices.
About us
You will be working in a team of 10 other specialist technicians and engineers to meet the targets set by our organisation. Clinical Engineering has four teams of engineers, two regular and two specialist teams to provide equipment management and maintenance service to our Trust of 5 hospital sites across Leeds.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is a large, multi-disciplinary Trust employing over 20,000 staff members and have a core values system known as The Leeds Way. The benefits of working in Clinical Engineering at Leeds is exposure to a vast array of diverse medical devices and a culture of continual improvement. This role will suite candidates who are dynamic and like to be kept busy, this is a busy department with many and varied challenges within it, however, you will benefit from a knowledgeable and supportive team.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Medical Physics & Engineering departments responsibilities include the management of an extensive range of highly specialist medical equipment and related services throughout the Trust, as well as community and private healthcare institutions. The range of equipment includes but is not limited to patient monitoring & life support equipment, surgical systems, anaesthesia systems, ventilators, infusion devices, renal dialysis, ultrasound, x-ray, radiotherapy and medical laboratory equipment.
Teams of technical officers deliver these services and the incumbent is a senior member of one of these teams, responsible to its Team Leader. He/she may be required to deputise for the team leader during short periods of absence (with the exception of personnel and financial management duties), and take responsibility for managing specific additional tasks such as calibrating test equipment or organising technical service manuals etc. The senior technician will be expected to work closely and effectively with other technical and clinical staff in the specialist clinical areas for which the team is responsible, to ensure delivery of a high quality service. The post may be based at either St Jamess University Hospital or the Leeds General Infirmary.
Person Specification
Other Criteria
Essential
1. Excellent communication skills.
2. Ability to communicate complex technical equipment-related information to staff, colleagues, suppliers.
3. Can persuade/negotiate with staff and suppliers
4. Pass occupational health screening.
Experience
Essential
5. Highly developed in depth specialist knowledge of medical electronics, procedures and practice. Registered clinical technologist.
6. Specialist medical equipment training. Electrical safety of medical equipment (IEC60601/ IEC62353))
7. In depth knowledge of medical electronics / computing and other medical technologies procedures and practices.
8. Knowledge of construction and workmanship standards in medical electronics.
9. Basic legal framework including indemnity. Basic anatomy and physiology.
Desirable
10. Sound knowledge of computer database / skills.
Skills & behaviours
Essential
11. Team working
12. Patient focused
13. Ability to continuously update and learn new skills to keep abreast of new and emergent technology.
14. Ability to make one-off judgements on suitability of medical equipment where clinical need and risk factors must be considered in addition to technical information.
15. Proven ability to interpret complex facts, analyse and fault find on highly complex multi-faceted items of specialist medical equipment.
16. Manual dexterity, accurate hand eye co-ordination and use of precision instruments.
Qualifications
Essential
17. Professional electronics knowledge through a BEng Honours Degree in electronics, computing or similar/equivalent qualification / experience.
Desirable
18. Post graduate diploma or equivalent, underpinned by extensive experience in the field and specialist equipment training