Overview
The Clinical Engineering Department is primarily concerned with providing evaluation and selection, acceptance checks, repair, calibration, and maintenance to a wide range of medical devices and equipment across University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. The aim is to ensure equipment operates effectively and safely with a minimum of downtime. Clinical equipment covered incorporates electrical, electronic, mechanical, computer software and medical gas systems.
Clinical areas include all general wards, Intensive Care, Special Care Baby Unit, all Theatre modalities, Cardiology, Renal Unit and Equipment Library.
The post holder will carry out specialist servicing, repair, calibration, scheduled preventative maintenance, safety and acceptance testing on a wide range of patient-connected medical equipment. The post holder is required to work to high standards of safety and accountability.
The post holder liaises with clinical and other technical staff to identify faults and repair equipment, including working in clinical areas and working with manufacturers, as appropriate.
Responsibilities
Provide specialised clinical technical services for preventative maintenance, servicing, calibration, inspection, and repair to a wide range of complex and patient-connected medical equipment, including life support and life-saving devices under all conditions of urgency.
Communicate with clinical users to gain a clear understanding of the nature of problems with equipment, assess seriousness and urgency, and respond appropriately.
Undertake advanced fault-finding, applying fault-finding techniques to diagnose problems (including those beyond manufacturer information); report unusual fault conditions to manufacturers. Exercise judgement to determine causes of faults in devices with multiple inter-related systems (electronic, computer, mechanical) and factors such as user error, equipment failure or environmental issues.
Rectify complex equipment faults and undertake repairs on electrical/electronic and mechanical devices to circuit component level if necessary.
Check that equipment performs to manufacturers specifications. Carry out calibration, quality control, safety and acceptance testing. Carry out electrical and functional safety checks.
Liaise with clinical and other technical staff to carry out planned preventative maintenance, with schedules adjusted in response to clinical needs as appropriate. Advise on equipment specification, evaluation, and selection. Monitor stocks of appropriate components and spares and reorder to maintain adequate stock.
Act on reception of safety notices and hazard bulletins, liaising with relevant government organisations or external agencies (e.g., MHRA, National Patient Safety Agency) to report device-related incidents. Ensure accurate record keeping for all work, using the equipment management computer database and extracting data as needed for reporting or analysis.
Liaise with manufacturers to obtain technical and clinical information. Provide feedback on equipment performance to Clinical Engineering Manager, team colleagues, clinical staff, and external organisations as appropriate. Take responsibility for all tools and equipment within the post holder's care. Maintain workshop facilities and ensure workshop test equipment is kept to acceptable standards; ensure those using workshop equipment are authorised and trained to use it safely. Provide technical advice to clinical and other staff groups as required, and provide technical expertise to other team members within the Facilities and Estates Division.
Ensure that all work requests via telephone or direct contact are suitably recorded onto the system.
Please note: This role does not meet the minimum criteria for visa sponsorship under the current UK immigration rules, which set specific salary and skill thresholds. As such, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. Applicants will therefore need to already have the right to work in the UK to be considered. We include this information at the outset to provide clarity and avoid unnecessary inconvenience for applicants.
Qualifications
Knowledge and skills - Essential: Achieved correct academic grades or equivalence; extensive proven knowledge of specialist medical electronics, electro-mechanical systems, computing, and medical device support. Desirable: Attendance on training courses for maintenance and repair of a wide range of medical devices; Foundation Degree in Medical Technologies or equivalent.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - Essential: Evidence of developing understanding of equalities issues and championing diversity in previous roles where appropriate.
Additional Information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a DBS check.
Employer: University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279). Address: Royal Sussex County Hospital, Eastern Road, Brighton, BN2 5BE. Website: https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/
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