Main area Clinical Engineering Medical Equipment Technician Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working flexibly across the week within the core hours of 08.00am - 18.00pm) Job ref 390-COR-BA-0022
Employer Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Basildon Town Basildon Salary £31,049 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time) Salary period Yearly Closing 26/03/2026 23:59
Band 5
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.
Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.
We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.
Job overview
We are seeking a motivated individual with excellent communication, organisational, and interpersonal skills to join our dedicated MEMS team. If you are passionate about supporting healthcare through technology and enjoy working as part of a collaborative team, this could be the role for you.
MEMS provides comprehensive medical equipment management services across Basildon, Southend, Broomfield, and other partner organisations. Our services include procurement, acceptance testing, maintenance and servicing, clinical staff training, and the safe decommissioning and disposal of equipment.
In this role, you will play a vital part in ensuring that clinical equipment operates effectively, safely, and with minimal downtime — enabling staff to deliver the best possible care to patients. The equipment you’ll be working with is diverse and complex, incorporating electrical, electronic, mechanical, computer, and medical gas-based systems.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills within a supportive environment while contributing to the safe and effective use of vital medical technology across our hospitals and beyond.
Main duties of the job
You will provide support to electrical and electronic related medical equipment, which includes the scheduled planned preventative maintenance (PPM), servicing, repair, calibration and acceptance testing on a wide range of medical equipment within the electrical / electronic field.
You will help promote understanding of the medical equipment concept within the Trust and support development and delivery of associated work programmes.
Perform a range of technical duties, guided by procedures involving autonomous work on both general and complex medical equipment in the clinical (external organisations) and workshop environment to ensure the optimum effectiveness, reliability, availability and safety of medical devices which may involve travelling across sites.
To commission, calibrate, deploy and maintain a wide range of complex medical devices e.g. Infusion Devices, Patient Monitoring, Defibrillators, etc
Working for our organisation
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached job description.
We look forward to your application!
Please be aware that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a high number of applications be received.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS & KNOWLEDGE
* Medical equipment servicing
* Degree Level Electronics / appropriate experience
* HND/C Electronics or equivalent experience in General electronics
* Knowledge of Microsoft application software
Experience
* Working knowledge in electronic servicing
* Proven knowledge of Medical Equipment Safety IEC 601
* Knowledge of specialist test equipment.
* Ability to work with technical manuals and schematic diagrams
* Experience of Equipment management information systems and databases
* Ability to plan and prioritise workload to ensure maximum efficiency
Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.
Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.
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.
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