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Location
Brighton, East Sussex | United Kingdom
Job description
Provide specialised clinical technical services for preventative maintenance, servicing, calibration, inspection, and repair to a wide range of complex and patient-connected medical equipment. Including life support and life saving devices under all conditions of urgency. Communicate with clinical users to gain a clear understanding of the nature of problems with equipment. Assess the seriousness and implications of the problem and respond appropriately to the urgency of the user request. Undertake advanced fault-finding. Apply suitable fault-finding techniques to diagnose problems, including those beyond the scope of manufacturer supplied information. Report unusual fault conditions to manufacturers. Exercise judgement to determine the causes of faults in devices with multiple complex and inter-related systems (e.g., electronic, computer and mechanical systems), which may be due to user error, equipment failure or environmental issues (e.g., temperature, humidity, radio frequency). Rectify complex equipment faults. Undertake repairs on complex electrical/electronic and mechanical devices to circuit component level if necessary. The post holder will be required manage all work that they are given or are required to plan. This will be carried out using the post holders own discretion, following existing departmental/NHS policies and procedures. The post holder will work individually or as part of a multi-disciplinary team, using a full range of facilities to gather information (For example: Medical Equipment database, external manufacturers, MHRA, NPSA) in order to work within and around competing service demands. It will be expected for the post holder to actively promote and influence any service improvements that may be necessary to the department or to help with other colleagues activities. Check that equipment performs to manufacturers specification. Carry out calibration, quality control, safety, and acceptance testing. Carry out electrical and functional safety checks. Using technical and clinical experience, identify potentially hazardous symptoms and faults when in clinical areas or in talking to clinical staff. Liaise with clinical and other technical staff to carry out planned preventative maintenance. Schedules adjusted in response to clinical needs as appropriate. Advise on equipment specification, evaluation, and selection. Monitor stocks of appropriate components and spares, reordering where necessary to keep an adequate stock. Act on reception of safety notices and hazard bulletins as well as liaising with relevant government organisations or external agencies, to report device related incidents. (e.g., MHRA, National Patient Safety Agency) Ensure accurate record keeping is always maintained. This will apply to all work carried out, for the entire history of each job or project. The post holder will frequently be required to use the equipment management computer database (ECRI AIMS) to record this data. Also, it will be necessary to extract data from the database on occasion, for reporting/feedback or other analytical purposes. Liaise with manufacturers to obtain technical and clinical information. Provide feedback on equipment performance to Clinical Engineering Manager, team colleagues, clinical staff, and external organisations as appropriate. Take responsibility for all tools and equipment within the post holders care. Ensure workshop facilities are kept clear and well-ordered and that all workshop test equipment is maintained to acceptable standards. Where workshop equipment is passed to others to use, make sure they are authorised to use it in a safe and effective manner. Provide technical advice to clinical and other staff groups as required. Provide technical expertise and assistance to other team members within the Facilities and Estates Division. Ensure that all work requests via telephone or direct contact are suitably recorded where required onto the system.
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Salary
£35.39k - £42.62k per annum
