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Job summary

Main area
Clinical Engineering
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
Permanent: Hours 9am-5pm Monday to Friday
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
214-CSTO-7265225
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Kings Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton in Ashfield
Salary
£31,049 - £37,796 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
25/09/2025 23:59
Interview date
08/10/2025

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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Medical Engineering Technician

NHS AfC: Band 5

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 Multi-Disciplinary Team – A Unique Opportunity Awaits!

Are you passionate about technology and healthcare? This is your chance to become part of a dynamic team where your enthusiasm and willingness to learn will be valued and nurtured.

We’re looking for someone who is eager to gain broad experience in the maintenance of medical equipment, with a strong foundation in electronics and a commitment to professional development.

What You’ll Be Doing:

You’ll play a key role in supporting the Clinical/Technical services of MEMD, including:

  • Planned maintenance of medical devices

  • Assisting with repairs, acceptance testing, and equipment condemnation

  • Servicing community-deployed sleep therapy/CPAP devices in respiratory clinics

What You’ll Need:

  • A BEng in Electronics or equivalent Level 6 qualification

  • Or a willingness to complete such a course under Annex 21

What You’ll Gain:

  • Progression through the MEMD competence profile

  • Attendance at manufacturer training courses for complex medical devices

  • Experience working within a BSI ISO 9001:2015 registered Quality System

Main duties of the job

  • Provide specialised clinical technical services for planned preventive maintenance (PPM), servicing, inspection and repair to a wide range of complex and patient-critical medical devices and systems.
  • Undertake advanced fault-finding. Apply suitable fault-finding techniques to diagnose problems.
  • Contribute to the condemnation of medical devices, ensuring their safe disposal.
  • Acceptance test medical equipment and devices where appropriate, covering loan and newly delivered medical devices. This involves evaluating medical devices to ensure compliance to the prevailing NHS England recommendations.
  • Contribute to the introduction of recently accepted devices into clinical service.

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. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

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.

Person specification

Contractual Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Working towards registration as a Clinical Technologist
Desirable criteria
  • Driving Licence

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Awareness and understanding of medical device management principles
  • Communication/interpersonal skills, commensurate with effective team working and liaison with clinical and professional colleagues
  • A range knowledge and skills in using computer technology both for general use and in medical device applications
  • Advance engineering and workshop skills
  • Knowledge of the clinical application of medical devices
  • Contribute, initially, under guidance, to the Clinical Engineering services of MEMD including acceptance testing repair, planned maintenance, and condemnation
  • Working towards independent practitioner status, they must acquire the knowledge and skills required for registration as a Clinical Technologist.

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • BEng in electronics or equivalent. Candidates with a lower qualification may be taken on via Annex 21 in a training role to reach this minimum level.
  • Knowledge at equivalent standard gained through relevant experience/training

Further Training

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

Experience

Essential criteria
  • A minimum of 2 years experience of planned maintenance and repairs to a wide range of electrical/electronic/mechanical devices
Desirable criteria
  • Experience working within Healthcare Environment

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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