Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Town Sheffield
Salary £29,970 - £36,483 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period Yearly
Closing 21/04/2025 23:59
Interview date 30/04/2025
Clinical Engineer Quality Assurance
NHS AfC: Band 5
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Clinical Engineering are seeking to recruit an engineer who is passionate about making a difference to the NHS. This role will support patient services by providing a comprehensive quality assurance programme for diagnostic ultrasound medical devices and diagnostic imaging monitors Trust wide. This is an exciting opportunity to perform a critical role in the maintenance of a wide range of diagnostic imaging medical devices.
The role will require flexibility in working hours in order to access medical devices in clinical locations outside of normal clinic operating times. It is expected that most activities will be accomplished between Monday to Friday however, on occasions weekend work may be required. Training will be given to the successful candidate.
Clinical Engineering maintains a wide variety of medical devices so there may be opportunities to gain experience and skills on other medical devices as appropriate, providing the core requirements of this role are met.
The ideal candidate will have a scientific or technical background gained in healthcare as a technician or engineer. They should be suitably qualified and with experience of the use, maintenance and management of medical devices for healthcare delivery. They will have an open and enquiring mind, an analytical and structured approach to problem solving, good communication and reporting skills, and a demonstrable enthusiasm and commitment to the safe and optimal use of medical devices in healthcare.
Main duties of the job
Working within an ISO 9001 quality system, the post holder will be a member of a team providing Quality Assurance (QA) user checks on the ultrasound transducers of diagnostic ultrasound scanners and QA checks on medical imaging (PACS) monitors across all the Trust’s hospital sites. The majority of the activities will be undertaken in clinical areas, during clinic downtimes however, some elements of the role will be undertaken in the Clinical Engineering workshops.
The post holder will be required to develop and deliver a training programme for other engineers and users, as well as write standard operating procedures (SOPs) that will be agreed and signed off by a Lead Clinical Scientist.
Working for our organisation
The Directorate of Medical Imaging & Medical Physics (MIMP) is the largest Service Directorate within Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
Medical Physics employs 135 staff (35 scientists and 100 technical staff) providing a variety of scientific and clinical services to the Trust.
The Department of Medical Physics is divided into 6 sections each managed by a Section Head responsible to the Scientific Director.
The Clinical Engineering Section is divided into three groups – Medical Device Management (MDM), Medical Device Innovation (MDI) and Medical Device Healthcare Projects (MDHP)
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree in Engineering/Physics or an allied subject, or equivalent qualification and experience.
* Extensive additional theoretical knowledge acquired through CPD (professional short courses, personal study, conferences) and professional training in relevant working environments.
* Professional registration (e.g., Incorporated Engineer; Registered Clinical Technologist, etc.).
* Specialist training in the operation & maintenance of highly complex medical devices.
Experience
* Experience of medical device servicing including fault finding and repair.
* Experience of scheduled maintenance programmes and in meeting targets.
* Significant post graduate (or equivalent) engineering experience working in a relevant field that has delivered knowledge to an equivalent level as a post graduate diploma.
Skills
* The ability to work under pressure and meet targets.
* Extensive knowledge of engineering work practices & maintenance principles.
* Understanding of fault finding, preventative maintenance & calibration principles and understanding of safe working practices.
* Understanding of quality assurance and quality management principles in the management of equipment.
* Competent user of IT tools such as word-processing, spreadsheets and database applications etc.
Candidates are advised to read the attached guidance on using AI technology. When you complete your application, you are required to declare that the information in your application form is true and complete. The personal statement is exactly that; personal.
The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community.
Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.
All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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