Clinical Equipment Safety Technician
The closing date is 19 March 2026
Job summary
The Estate and Facilities Directorate holds a key role in ensuring that the Trust's continued excellent reputation and 'Outstanding' CQC status. The directorate also played a significant role in facilitating the hospital's move from its old site to the new, purpose built, state-of-the-art, hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in 2019.
The directorate offers a fast paced and varied environment for individuals in roles at all levels, providing ample opportunity not only for skills to be used, but also grown. The Clinical Engineering department plays a key role in the directorate, contributing to making a difference to both the work of the directorate and the wider hospital as a whole.
The focus of the Clinical Equipment Safety Technician is to provide technical support to the team by completing visual and functional inspections of medical equipment and conducting appropriate electrical safety testing and basic fault-finding.
You will work closely and collaboratively with the Head of Clinical Engineering to ensure that the medical equipment throughout the hospital operates effectively and safely in service of excellent patient treatment and care.
Main duties of the job
To provide technical support to Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (RPHNHSFT) and other healthcare providers as determined by Clinical Engineering contract activity.
Work in clinical areas, normally unsupervised but with access to technical/managerial advice and support by telephone or by returning to department.
Contributes to the equipment support service by providing a careful visual and functional inspection of medical equipment.
Completes an appropriate electrical safety test following inspection of the mains supply cable, connections, plug and fuse.
Identifies and resolves basic medical equipment accessory faults (and parts close to failure) on equipment e.g. failing Non-invasive Blood Pressure (NIBP) hoses/cuffs.
Commissions/calibrates a limited range of medical equipment unsupervised in defined circumstances e.g. but not limited to tympanic ear thermometers, gas equipment, pressure mattresses, heater cooler care processes and sphygmomanometers.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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Details
Date posted
05 March 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£25,272 to £27,476 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
175-2526-ES1605
Job locations
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer's website
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