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Job overview

There is an requirement for an enthusiastic person to join the Trust’s  Medical Engineering team. The post-holder will be involved in the day-to-day management of staff and resources employed to maintain a wide range of medical/renal/laboratory/CCTV equipment as well as making a practical contribution to the routine maintenance, calibration and repair of over 30,000 medical devices including patient monitoring, ventilators and pathology equipment used within a modern Hospital environment.

Also involved in large and exciting site and service developments, the post holder will be an integral part of design teams modernising and expanding the Trust's Medical Equipment services.

Applicants should be qualified to degree level or equivalent in an electronic related discipline and will be able to demonstrate significant relevant experience at a supervisory/senior level in a medical electronics related field. A full driving licence is required, as the post-holder will participate in an out of hour’s on-call rota.

You will need to be a team player, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to use your own initiative when required.

• Interview date: 30th May 2024
• 37 hours 30 minutes /week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy

Main duties of the job

• Planning, co-ordinating, implementing and delivering a programme of planned maintenance including personal responsibility for the maintenance of specialist equipment or departments.
• Planning and allocating the workload of reactive maintenance of medical devices, sometimes with immediate responses required.
• Planning asset audits to ensure equipment is operating at the required software and hardware levels.
• Managing and lead a team of highly skilled Medical Engineering Technicians.
• Implement necessary remedial actions recommended in Department of Health Safety Alert Bulletins or manufacturer’s alerts, modification or software updates.
• Liaise with medical, technical, supplies department, risk management staff and equipment manufacturers regarding technical information including investigating and reporting of adverse incidents and equipment defects and failures to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, we have around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.