Specialist Medical Equipment Engineer

Specialist Medical Equipment Engineer

Main area

Medical Physics

Grade

NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref

196-LIS8959

Employer

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type

NHS

Site

Main hospital sites at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ (London) and our offsite logistics facility in Dartford.

Town

London

Salary

£54,320 - £60,981 per annum incl. HCA

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

24/10/2024 23:59

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic,





respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.







Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research.





We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success.





We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Medical Equipment Engineer to join a leading central London teaching hospital Trust, providing vital support for medical technology.

As a Specialist Engineer, you will take the lead in the maintenance and calibration of various medical equipment across the Trust.





This includes overseeing and planning tasks to ensure high standards of safety, accountability, and professionalism. Key responsibilities include managing equipment inventory and maintenance records, as well as offering expert technical advice on purchasing, replacement planning, service contracts, and supplier management. Applicants with experience in supporting ultrasound scanners or surgical/operating theatre equipment are especially encouraged to apply.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post is one of a number in the MEMS Section. The Post-holder will carry out planned servicing, repair, calibration, and acceptance on a wide range of medical equipment and is required to work to high standards of safety and accountability.





The Post-holder leads on oversight and delivery of maintenance and calibration of specific populations of
medical equipment Trust wide, as assigned. They are responsible for
maintenance and inventory records and provide expert technical input on management to other staff to inform maintenance, purchase and replacement planning and use.

The Post-holder will also carry out repairs and troubleshooting on equipment, liaising with clinical and technical staff to identify faults, sometimes working in clinical areas and/or directly with manufacturers.
The over-riding purpose of all medical technical support roles is to ensure continued safety and productivity for the Trust. For this post,





this includes an obligation for the post-holder to take part in continuous review of activity to ensure that the most appropriate technical support with the right priorities is being delivered within available resources, driving their own learning if need be.

This post includes a requirement to work “anti-social hours” overnight or at weekends

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity ,





gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

Flexible working

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Alternatively contact: Ahmed Jawwad (************@gstt.nhs.uk) for further information.