Clinical Engineer

The post holder will provide technical support to the wider MEMS service, working across all aspects of clinical engineering to ensure that medical devices are managed and maintained to a high standard. This will include working across device safety, replacement planning, asset register management and maintenance planning. The post holder is primarily responsible for ensuring accurate asset records are created and maintained, leading inventory audits to validate data where required. They will ensure suitable service levels are specified for both in-house and contracted out maintenance providers and that preventative maintenance activities are assigned and met in an efficient and cost-effective manner. They will provide technical scrutiny of maintenance data in order to monitor and challenge providers where necessary and ensure technical and safety issues are followed up and resolved. There is a requirement to accurately record technical information on the Trust medical device asset register and to design reports to query the database, ensuring transparent and robust device governance.

Technical

• Collate and interpret complex technical information relating to the service and maintenance requirements of medical devices and utilise that information to make recommendations regarding required service frequency and level of maintenance cover. Apply risk management techniques to decision making and maintain audit trials to demonstrate compliance with CQC regulations.
• Manage requests for new or replacement medical equipment, liaising with end users and suppliers to capture clinical and technical aspects of equipment specifications.
• Develop specifications for new equipment and related service and maintenance contracts and lead technical evaluations
• Respond to reports of adverse incidents involving medical devices. This may involve the complex fault finding on medical equipment and the production of detailed written reports to summarise findings and recommend appropriate action.
• Interpret technical information from medical device related safety notices and ensure recommendations for remedial work are fully justified and actioned.
• Provide technical oversight of external maintenance providers and identify opportunities to bring outsourced work in-house.
• Give advice or support to colleagues or manufacturers when repair or maintenance falls inside own level of expertise.
• Inform users of reasons for faults/incidents involving medical devices, the action taken and how to avoid re-occurrence.

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. Transforming Healthcare is the vision at the heart of the King’s Strategy – 2026 to 2031. Together, we are pursuing six strategic ambitions: delivering high-quality patient care; being a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability. Achieving these ambitions will require all of us to work as one Team King’s, united by a shared commitment to our values of being caring, collaborative, inclusive and innovative. By living these values every day, we will transform healthcare for our patients, our communities and each other

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Richard ARSCOTT Job title: Senior Clinical Engineer Email address: richard.arscott@nhs.net Telephone number: 020 3299 3491