Job summary
- Main area
- EME
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-LC136-B
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £29,828 - £36,311 per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
EME/Clinical Engineer Infusion Pumps Support
Band 5
Job overview
The role is a new but critical link for internal and external clients to help develop the department of EME/Clinical Engineering to the next level of specific 'infusion systems' asset maintenance.
Within this new role is 1 vacancy (Band 5 (based at FPH) to assist in the service and maintenance of Infusion systems across sites from Infusion/Syringe/End of Life, PCA, Epidural, TCI, and other devices such as feeding pumps.
The overall concept is to draw this in-house and have a dedicated professional team to support PPM and Repairs of the 3500 devices cross sites.
Main duties of the job
The role is to provide the provision of a new service within EME/Clinical Engineering that will align infusion systems maintenance and meet new department strategic objectives. With the need to,
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The role will allow the work as an essential link between the main Eme/Clinical Engineering section on all sites with the ability to be direct and support a team of apprentices along with identification and implementation of local infusion systems initiatives.
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The role will ensure that all infusion systems cross-site are maintained to the manufacturer's specific guidance but overall Corrective and Preventative Maintenance program of works are dealt with and actions ensuring safety and compliance throughout the whole trust.
- The post holder will act as the main contact between the Trust internal and external stakeholders. They will combine all of the above to further develop and improve the EME/Clinical Engineering Department for ultimate lifetime management asset lifetime management with traceability as required by the various health regulatory bodies and manufacturers.
- The Post Holder will form part of a multi-disciplined team whose role is to provide the best possible service to the Trust ensuring their contribution is beneficial to other departments within the Trust, as well as the Medical Electronics, to fulfil the Trust’s overall objectives
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main responsibilities,
- The post holder will work with all medical device repairs related to infusion systems and assist as required in the event of demand/leave and sickness cross-site.
- They will be part of a team for infusion-related medical device repairs with responsibility for ensuring that the actions and requirements support safe and effective patient care.
- To be able to guide staff and further identify faults, carry out repairs and planned maintenance to sophisticated electro-medical equipment program as necessary.
- To carry out regular safety assessment and testing of equipment.
- The role will further be the liaison between the infusion systems team and internal leadership.
- To be able to work with and align work of infusion integration and the complexities to align the devices to Epic/EPR.
- To be part of the support team for specialist advice on the safe use of infusion devices, contributing to a high-quality, evidence-based service.
- To action plans in supporting the complex preventative maintenance programs.
- Provide advice to clinical staff and other relevant staff groups in the context of infusion systems priority recalls for safety and validation.
- Provide advice to colleagues in resolving operational and medical device infusion management issues.
- To act as an appropriate infusion systems team in the development and following of medical device safety-related policies, SOPs, guidelines, and protocols.
- Provide advice towards medical devices strategy development and implementation.
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- Ensure the Trust is compliant with any infusion-based standards.
- To follow workload as directed and the wider infusion team within agreed objectives deciding when to refer work to others as appropriate.
- Works with colleagues to understand the root cause analysis of the issues and report accordingly within the desired course of action.
- Has the ability to work with other staff within the trust and Eme to alleviate any concerns with regard to medical devices.
- Responsible for the ordering of spare parts and assisting in the maintenance of stock levels.
- Responsibility to raise awareness of part needs.
- To be self-led for training requirement for self-technical compliance.
More available in the Job Description
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/HND/HNC or equivalent in Electronics, Physics or Biomedical Engineering
- In depth knowledge of modern medical devices, systems and standard, particularly with respect to testing and evaluation
- Some knowledge of modern computer-based systems and some IT knowledge/awareness
Desirable criteria
- Specific studies / qualifications in Medical Instrumentation both generic and specific equipment courses including relevant study/ knowledge of physiology and aspects of medicine.
- Qualifications in Physics and Maths to A level or equivalent.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Professionally gained experience in several different areas of electronics, preferably including medical electronics e.g. infusion devices, ventilators, incubators, ultrasound machine, etc. for at least three years.
- Extensive experience of troubleshooting to board level on a wide variety of electronic and computer-based systems
- Extensive experience of electrical testing using varied range of test equipment
- Supervisory experience in a workshop environment
- Proven level of responsibility where mistakes directly impinge on the safety/well-being of others
Desirable criteria
- Specific servicing experience in medical equipment in NHS or commercial environment.
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 Kirkby
- Job title
- Head of EME/Clinical Engineering
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 6134276
- Additional information
In the event I cannot be contacted please contact my deputy head of EME/Clinical Engineering at [email protected] or on 03006 153211
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