Go back Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Medical Equipment Technician
The closing date is 26 March 2026
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
About us
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.
Job 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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
£31,049 a yearPer Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)
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