Employer Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Kings Mill Hospital Town Sutton Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 02/08/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 6
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job overview
Join Our Dynamic Multi-Disciplinary Team!
Are you ready to take the next step in your career within a forward-thinking and supportive environment? We’re offering an exciting opportunity to become part of our Clinical/Technical services team within MEMD, where your enthusiasm and technical skills will make a real difference.
As a valued team member, you’ll:
* Contribute to the planned maintenance, repair support, acceptance, and condemnation of a wide range of medical equipment.
* Play a key role in the servicing of community-deployed sleep therapy/CPAP devices within our Respiratory Clinic.
* Work within a department that is ISO 9001:2015 certified by the British Standards Institution, ensuring high standards and continuous improvement.
What We’re Looking For:
* A BEng in Electronics or an equivalent Level qualification.
* A passion for learning and the ability to absorb technical knowledge quickly.
* A proactive approach to gaining broad experience in medical equipment maintenance.
What You’ll Gain:
The opportunity to progress through the MEMD competence profile.
Access to manufacturer-led training courses on complex medical devices.
A chance to work in a team that values innovation, quality, and professional development.
Main duties of the job
This post is responsible for their own caseload leading the technical maintenance of highly complex medical devices across at least one complete clinical service. This includes governance aspects such as supporting device replacement introductions, contributing to end-user training, workshop technical investigation of patient safety incidents etc
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
Person specification
Qualifications
* BEng in electronics/clinical engineering or relevant equivalent
* Candidates with the lower qualification would be taken on via Annex 21 in a training role to reach this minimum level.
* Specialist knowledge through post-graduate diploma, specialist equipment training and experience or equivalent
Further Training
* Will have attended a range of manufacturer’s technical training courses
Experience
* Significant experience of planned maintenance, repairs and acceptance testing to a wide range of medical devices and a minimum of three years experience of medical device maintenance
* Experience working within Healthcare Environment
Contractual Requirements
* Registered Clinical Technologist
* Driving Licence
Knowledge Requirements
* Immediately contribute to the Clinical Engineering services of MEMD including acceptance testing repair, planned maintenance, and condemnation. Acting as an independent practitioner, they must therefore possess the knowledge and skills required for registered clinical technologist status
* Clinical application of medical devices
* Basic understanding of anatomy and physiology
* Understanding of physiological measurement techniques
* Awareness and understanding of medical device management principles
* A range knowledge and skills in using computer technology both for general use and in medical device applications
* Advance engineering and workshop skills
* Communication/interpersonal skills, commensurate with effective team working and liaison with clinical and professional colleagues
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process. Applications, including personal statements and behaviour examples, must be truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
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Please note that we no longer accept handwritten/paper applicationsand that the email address given on your application will be used for all correspondence regarding this post.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Priority for vacancies at the Trust will be given to existing employees of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust whose roles are currently at risk of redundancy due to organisational change.
Only applications received on or before the closing date will be considered for short listing. This is to ensure that the Trust meets its commitment to Equality of Opportunity.
In submitting an application, you authorise Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any current and previous NHS Service details and you agree to the Trust obtaining and transferring personal date held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be shared using the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and third party systems via an automated process and will only be used for the purposes of maintaining your employment record.
Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The Trust will pay for the check initially and then the money will then be deducted from your first salary once you've commenced employment. The current price of a check is £26.40 for a standard check and £54.40 for an enhanced. If you are asked to complete a DBS check and have a previous identity that you do not wish to be disclosed to your employer and/or on your DBS certificate, you should call or email the dedicated sensitive applications team before submitting your application. The team is experienced in dealing with sensitive cases and will advise you of the process and what you need to do.
Please note any genuine job offer letters will only be received if you have applied, interviewed, and received a verbal offer from the appointing manager for a vacancy within Sherwood Forest Hospitals. If you receive a job offer and you are not sure of its authenticity, please report it to the following email sfh-tr.recruitmentqueries@nhs.net
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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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