Assistant Clinical Technologist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated person to join us as a Associate Clinical Engineer

You will work in a team that provides maintenance and repair to medical devices adhering to stringent quality standards.

Main duties of the job

Working within an ISO 9001 Quality Management System the post holder will provide basic maintenance to a range of medical devices. This work includes the acceptance, repairing of faults, maintenance, installation, and decommissioning of an ever-increasing range of medical devices. The service covers all the hospital sites in the Trust and community clinics throughout the Sheffield area.

Good team working and communication skills, and a full UK driving license are required.

About us

The Directorate of Medical Imaging & Medical Physics (MIMP) is the largest Service Directorate within Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

Medical Physics employs 135 staff (35 scientists and 100 technical staff) providing a variety of scientific and clinical services to the Trust.

The Department of Medical Physics is divided into 6 sections each managed by a Section Head responsible to the Scientific Director. The Clinical Engineering Section is divided into three groups - Medical Device Management (MDM), Medical Device Innovation (MDI) and Medical Device Healthcare Projects (MDHP).

Medical Device Management (MDM).

MDM is the largest group with over 60 staff. This section provides a fully comprehensive, highly-specialised medical device maintenance and management service to the Trust.

MDM strategically plans this highly specialised medical device management service at an organisational level. Medical device types range from basic monitoring devices to highly complex imaging and therapy equipment such as MRI scanners, lasers, gamma cameras and life support devices.

The budget of this section is £8.0million of which approximately £4million is for the running of the section (90% of medical devices are maintained 'in house') and approximately £4million for external maintenance contract management.