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Job summary

Main area
Clinical engineering
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
214-CSTO-7254459
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Kings Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/08/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Specialist Medical Engineering Technician - Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 6

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Job overview

Join Our Dynamic Multi-Disciplinary Team!

Are you ready to take the next step in your career within a forward-thinking and supportive environment? We’re offering an exciting opportunity to become part of our Clinical/Technical services team within MEMD, where your enthusiasm and technical skills will make a real difference.

As a valued team member, you’ll:

  • Contribute to the planned maintenance, repair support, acceptance, and condemnation of a wide range of medical equipment.
  • Play a key role in the servicing of community-deployed sleep therapy/CPAP devices within our Respiratory Clinic.
  • Work within a department that is ISO 9001:2015 certified by the British Standards Institution, ensuring high standards and continuous improvement.

What We’re Looking For:

  • A BEng in Electronics or an equivalent Level qualification.
  • A passion for learning and the ability to absorb technical knowledge quickly.
  • A proactive approach to gaining broad experience in medical equipment maintenance.

What You’ll Gain:

The opportunity to progress through the MEMD competence profile.
Access to manufacturer-led training courses on complex medical devices.
A chance to work in a team that values innovation, quality, and professional development.

Main duties of the job

This post is responsible for their own caseload leading the technical maintenance of highly complex medical devices across at least one complete clinical service. This includes governance aspects such as supporting device replacement introductions, contributing to end-user training, workshop technical investigation of patient safety incidents etc

Working for our organisation

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. 

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation. 

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands. 

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • BEng in electronics/clinical engineering or relevant equivalent
  • Candidates with the lower qualification would be taken on via Annex 21 in a training role to reach this minimum level.
  • Specialist knowledge through post-graduate diploma, specialist equipment training and experience or equivalent

Further Training

Essential criteria
  • Will have attended a range of manufacturer’s technical training courses

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience of planned maintenance, repairs and acceptance testing to a wide range of medical devices and a minimum of three years experience of medical device maintenance
Desirable criteria
  • Experience working within Healthcare Environment

Contractual Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Registered Clinical Technologist
Desirable criteria
  • Driving Licence

Knowledge Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Immediately contribute to the Clinical Engineering services of MEMD including acceptance testing repair, planned maintenance, and condemnation. Acting as an independent practitioner, they must therefore possess the knowledge and skills required for registered clinical technologist status
  • Clinical application of medical devices
  • Basic understanding of anatomy and physiology
  • Understanding of physiological measurement techniques
  • Specialist medical device testing systems
  • Awareness and understanding of medical device management principles
  • A range knowledge and skills in using computer technology both for general use and in medical device applications
  • Advance engineering and workshop skills
  • Communication/interpersonal skills, commensurate with effective team working and liaison with clinical and professional colleagues

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Chris Moore
Job title
Principal Technician
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01623 672215
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