Main area Bed Equipment Co-ordinator Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday, 0800-1600 with 30 min unpaid break) Job ref 110-AC187-0725
Employer Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Employer type NHS Site Princess of Wales Hospital Town bridgend Salary £24,433 - £26,060 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/07/2025 23:59
Band 3
Thank you for your interest in joining Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board.
Located in the heart of South Wales, we’re central to Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Deeply rooted in our community, as an NHS organisation we are dedicated to providing compassionate patient care and building healthier communities together.
At CTM, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team of over 14,500 people from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. As a family-friendly employer, we’re committed to promoting flexibility and are happy to discuss flexible working options.
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The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.
Job overview
The post holder will be a member of a multi-disciplined engineering team and will be expected to organise, with limited supervision the allocation and support of a wide range of medical equipment throughout Cwm Taf Morgannwg. This will include beds (both electrical and airbed mattress controllers), nebulisers, hoists, etc plus medical equipment library items such as infusion devices.
The post holder will be required to plan own workload and liaise with other staff.
The duties of this post are not inflexible or exhaustive and will be reviewed periodically and may be changed to be consistent with the grading of the post as the organisation or department develops and following consultation with the post holder.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will liaise with other healthcare professionals to ensure that clinical staff have access to all medical equipment within their responsibility when required.
Plan own workload.
Will provide advice and information to equipment users on the correct and safe use of medical devices including demonstration to clinical staff at all levels when required. At times this may be patient connected.
Complete documentation and enter relevant associated information on the Clinical Engineering departments computer system. Use of software for tasks such as word processing producing spreadsheets etc will also be required.
Maintain and observe department stocks of both library equipment and spare parts to agreed levels.
Carry out the routine checking of work performed by service providers prior to the return of the equipment to the user.
Perform the safe disposal of unwanted, obsolete or dangerous equipment.
Ensuring all items are correctly stored and appropriately decontaminated in accordance with departmental procedures.
Completion of regular checks to identify if there are any beds or other equipment ready for return or infected items awaiting for decontamination.
Ensure all faulty equipment is correctly identified, logged and repaired.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Good general standard of education
Experience
* Experience working in an equipment support environment
* Experience of working with Microsoft Office.
Skills
* Excellent communication and customer care skills and a good telephone manner
* Ability to communicate technical information to colleagues and manufacturers/suppliers
Knowledge
* Understanding and functionality of Dynamic mattresses and profiling bed systems.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome applications from individuals within protected groups as outlined in the Equality Act 2010. This includes, but is not limited to, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity, and marriage and civil partnership. We also warmly welcome applications from members of the Armed Forces community.
Applicants who are not UK or Republic of Ireland nationals will require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa unless they already hold permission to work via another route. Prospective applicants should self-assess their eligibility for sponsorship by visiting the UK Government’s Work in the UK guidance. For eligible candidates, the Health and Care Visa offers reduced application costs and exempts payment of the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
Please ensure you check your email regularly, as all recruitment correspondence will be sent to the email address provided on your application form.
Applications are welcome in either Welsh or English, with no preference given to the language used.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy early or withdraw an advertisement to accommodate the redeployment of internal staff into suitable roles.
All posts are subject to relevant checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service check and, where required, Professional Registration verification.
We are proud to be a Living Wage Employer.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Tracey Bechares Job title Bed Equipment Manager / Rheolwr Offer Gwely Email address tracey.bechares@wales.nhs.uk Telephone number 07766133935
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