Clinical Engineer
Job Description
Job summary
The post holder will provide technical support to the wider MEMS service, working across all aspects of clinical engineering to ensure that medical devices are managed and maintained to a high standard. This will include working across device safety, replacement planning, asset register management and maintenance planning. The post holder is primarily responsible for ensuring accurate asset records are created and maintained, leading inventory audits to validate data where required. They will ensure suitable service levels are specified for both in-house and contracted out maintenance providers and that preventative maintenance activities are assigned and met in an efficient and cost-effective manner. They will provide technical scrutiny of maintenance data in order to monitor and challenge providers where necessary and ensure technical and safety issues are followed up and resolved. There is a requirement to accurately record technical information on the Trust medical device asset register and to design reports to query the database, ensuring transparent and robust device governance.
Main duties of the job
Technical
- Collate and interpret complex technical information relating to the service and maintenance requirements of medical devices and utilise that information to make recommendations regarding required service frequency and level of maintenance cover. Apply risk management techniques to decision making and maintain audit trials to demonstrate compliance with CQC regulations.
- Manage requests for new or replacement medical equipment, liaising with end users and suppliers to capture clinical and technical aspects of equipment specifications.
- Develop specifications for new equipment and related service and maintenance contracts and lead technical evaluations
- Respond to reports of adverse incidents involving medical devices. This may involve the complex fault finding on medical equipment and the production of detailed written reports to summarise findings and recommend appropriate action.
- Interpret technical information from medical device related safety notices and ensure recommendations for remedial work are fully justified and actioned.
- Provide technical oversight of external maintenance providers and identify opportunities to bring outsourced work in-house.
- Give advice or support to colleagues or manufacturers when repair or maintenance falls inside own level of expertise.
- Inform users of reasons for faults/incidents involving medical devices, the action taken and how to avoid re-occurrence.
About us
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. Transforming Healthcare is the vision at the heart of the King's Strategy - 2026 to 2031. Together, we are pursuing six strategic ambitions: delivering high-quality patient care; being a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability. Achieving these ambitions will require all of us to work as one Team King's, united by a shared commitment to our values of being caring, collaborative, inclusive and innovative. By living these values every day, we will transform healthcare for our patients, our communities and each other
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Job responsibilities
Reporting and Analysis
- Manage the medical device asset register, including creating accurate records of medical devices commissioned within the Trust.
- Provide insights from multiple data sources to ensure equipment servicing is completed according to contract terms and planned schedules.
- Record equipment service history and update maintenance records on the Trust asset register.
- Monitor provider performance to ensure that the maintenance providers fulfils their contractual responsibilities.
- Query medical device asset registers to design reports and dashboards to reflect supplier performance. Present these reports at department level meetings
Deal with complex facts or situations which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options e.g. receiving information from users regarding equipment breakdown and acting in such a way as to minimise down time, service disruption and cost.
- Work with internal and external groups to ensure medical equipment maintenance records are kept up to date.
- Provide information upon request for Medical Device alerts and Freedom of information requests.
Strategy and Planning
- Work with the medical device safety team to write and execute action plans to address issues arising from field safety notices, national patient safety alerts or adverse incidents involving medical device failure.
- Follow up actions from adverse incidents to support root cause analysis and learning from incidents.
- Act on user complaints and queries, investigate and report.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree/NVQ Level 6 in a relevant subject, or extensive knowledge, skills and experience in the field of equipment management and support.
Desirable
- Professionally registered Healthcare Scientist.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Expert knowledge of clinical, scientific and engineering aspects of a wide range of medical equipment.
Desirable
- High level of understanding of patient and staff risks arising from equipment failure.
- Experience of working with a wide range of people in different roles and at different levels of seniority both internal and external.
- Experience of working with equipment maintenance providers to ensure work is undertaken to the required standard.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Working knowledge of all Microsoft Office packages (e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and internet use)
- Able to assimilate, analyse and present complex data.
- Ability to cope with variety of tasks under pressure.
- Able to exercise own initiative and able to operate autonomously.
- High level of planning and organisational skills with a flexible and adaptable approach. And Able to negotiate issues of a technical and commercial nature.
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Kings college hospital
Denmark Hill
London
SE5 8RX
United Kingdom
