Job overview

Medical Equipment Management Services (MEMS) – Technician

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

Working for our organisation

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.