Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Engineering
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 190-0515-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/07/2025
Employer heading
Clinical Engineer Quality Assurance
NHS AfC: Band 5
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Clinical Engineering are seeking to recruit an engineer who is passionate about making a difference to the NHS. This role will support patient services by providing a comprehensive quality assurance programme for diagnostic ultrasound medical devices and diagnostic imaging monitors, trust-wide. This is an exciting opportunity to perform a critical role in the maintenance of a wide range of diagnostic imaging medical devices.
The role will require flexibility in working hours to access medical devices in clinical locations outside of normal clinic operating times. It is expected that most activities will be accomplished between Monday to Friday; however, on occasions, weekend work may be required. Training will be given to the successful candidate.
Clinical Engineering maintains a wide variety of medical devices, so there may be opportunities to gain experience and skills on other medical devices as appropriate, provided the core requirements of this role are met.
The ideal candidate will have a scientific or technical background gained in healthcare as a technician or engineer. They should be suitably qualified and with experience in the use, maintenance, and management of medical devices for healthcare delivery. They will have an open and enquiring mind, an analytical and structured approach to problem solving, good communication and reporting skills, and a demonstrable enthusiasm and commitment to the safe and optimal use of medical devices in healthcare.
Main duties of the job
Working within an ISO 9001 quality system, the post holder will be a member of a team providing Quality Assurance (QA) user checks on the ultrasound transducers of diagnostic ultrasound scanners and QA checks on medical imaging (PACS) monitors across all the Trust’s hospital sites. The majority of the activities will be undertaken in clinical areas, during clinic downtimes; however, some elements of the role will be undertaken in the Clinical Engineering workshops.
The post holder will be required to develop and deliver a training programme for other engineers and users, as well as write standard operating procedures (SOPs) that will be agreed and signed off by a Lead Clinical Scientist.
Working for our organisation
The Directorate of Medical Imaging & Medical Physics (MIMP) is the largest Service Directorate within Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
Medical Physics employs 135 staff (35 scientists and 100 technical staff), providing a variety of scientific and clinical services to the Trust.
The Department of Medical Physics is divided into 6 sections, each managed by a Section Head responsible to the Scientific Director.
The Clinical Engineering Section is divided into three groups – Medical Device Management (MDM), Medical Device Innovation (MDI), and Medical Device Healthcare Projects (MDHP)
You will be working for an organisation that values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Engineering/Physics or an allied subject, or equivalent qualification and experience.
- Extensive additional theoretical knowledge acquired through CPD (professional short courses, personal study, conferences) and professional training in relevant working environments.
Desirable criteria
- Professional registration (e.g., Incorporated Engineer; Registered Clinical Technologist, etc.).
- Specialist training in the operation & maintenance of highly complex medical devices.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of medical device servicing including fault finding and repair.
- Experience of scheduled maintenance programmes and in meeting targets.
Desirable criteria
- Significant post graduate (or equivalent) engineering experience working in a relevant field that has delivered knowledge to an equivalent level as a post graduate diploma.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Competent user of IT tools such as word-processing, spreadsheets and database applications etc.
- • Full UK driving license (Car)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paul Spark
- Job title
- Operational Senior Clinical Engineer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2715076
- Additional information
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