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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) officially attained Teaching Hospital status on 1st April 2020; this is the start of our ambition to achieve University Teaching Hospital status. Supported by Edge Hill University, the University of Bolton and the University of Central Lancashire, with approval from regulators NHS Improvement/England and the Department of Health and Social Care, from the 1st April 2020, the Trust will now be known as Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL).
Attaining Teaching Hospital status enables WWL to further enhance education and training capacity, grow research capability and improve the recruitment and retention of high quality staff across all professions. Ultimately, this will result in a positive impact on the quality of care and outcomes for patients.
Medical engineering technician
Closed for applications on: 3-May-2023 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 3-May-2023 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- RAEI
- Address
- Wigan Road
- Town
- Wigan
- Postcode
- WN1 2NN
- Major / Minor Region
- Lancashire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £27,055 - £32,934 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Medical engineering technician
Choose Well - Choose WWL
Job overview
Due to reorganisation within the department, a vacancy has arisen for a Band 5 Medical Engineering Technician within our Medical Electronics Department and are looking to appoint someone to help extend the range of services we currently provide.
With your HND/HNC in Electronic / electrical engineering & manufacturers specialised courses or equivalent experience, you will ideally have some prior experience of working in a hospital medical engineering, maintenance environment.
The successful candidate will be required to work across the 3 main sites i.e. Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Hospitals and at other sites to service or repair medical equipment.
This is a fulltime post working 37.5 hours per week.
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Your duties will include working with and supporting the Team Leader in providing a cost efficient repair and maintenance service on medical equipment within the Trust. This will include working on specialist equipment. The post involves acceptance testing of new equipment, new product evaluations, electrical safety testing, installation, commissioning, servicing and repairs on a broad range of complex, multifaceted medical equipment and devices to be used by others.
The post holder will be a person with a range of training and experience on medical equipment and have a background in electronic/electrical engineering that is able to work on his/her own initiative and without supervision. He/she will demonstrate an understanding of and have the ability to develop further the technical aspects of the post. He/she will need to be committed to flexibility and pursue continuing development of their technical knowledge and develop new skills whilst undertaking their duties as part of a team, these will including liaising with colleagues and other staff members, the post holder will work towards the highest possible standards of patient care.
Working for our organisation
Choose Well – Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
On-Call
Please note that senior positions (AFC band 8A or above) may be expected to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To ensure that by examination you are satisfied equipment is clean and has been decontaminated in accordance with department procedures to ensure that equipment is safe for yourself and other technicians to carry out their duties and to prevent cross infection to patients when returned to clinical areas.
To service, repair and calibrate a range of delicate and complex medical equipment diagnosing faults using your skills of dexterity and co-ordination with the aid of precision tools and specialised test equipment and computer software provided.
To collect the facts and circumstances of how and why equipment failed whilst in use to develop your skills of analysis for diagnosing faults on medical equipment both in the clinical environment and the workshop.
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completed an approved training programme to a minimum of HNC/HND in electronic / electrical engineering or equivalent experience and attended manufacturers short courses
Desirable criteria
- BEng electronic / electrical engineering and attend manufactures short courses
- ECDL European Computer Driving Licence
- Be registered or a member of a relevant professional organisation
Exprience
Essential criteria
- Gained experience in electronic / electrical engineering repair or maintenance of medical equipment
Desirable criteria
- Previous employment in a health care maintenance environment
- Knowledge of the safe operation and techniques used within a maintenance environment
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work with other professions. Must be able to work using own initiative with a minimum of supervision
- Highly versatile and receptive to training initiatives and change
- Have good dexterity with an eye for detail
- Good communicator
Desirable criteria
- Geographically familiar with the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh area
- Be computer literate in the use of Microsoft windows operating systems and applications
- Ability to work with databases etc
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good level of general knowledge.
- Good level of literacy and numeracy skills
- An understanding of physiological measurement techniques and terminology
- Fully conversant with electrical safety testing techniques
Additional
Essential criteria
- Primarily to be involved with the repair and servicing of key medical equipment i.e. Defibs & AEDs, Infusion pumps, Suction units, Syringe pumps, Patient monitoring equipment, Perinatal equipment monitors, Ophthalmic equipment, Theatre endoscopic equipment etc
RCT Registration
Desirable criteria
- Registered with RCT
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mr Febin Sebastian
- Job title
- Acting Medical Equipment Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01942822001
- Additional information
For further information please contact Mr. Febin Sebastian, Acting Medical Equipment Manager, on 01942773521
The Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust is a non-smoking organisation. Smoking will not be permitted on any of the sites
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