Trainee Engineering Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

Assist the Senior Engineering Technician (and other Rehab Engineering staff) in the build, supply and maintenance of patient devices, to customary levels of engineering precision. Assist with general tasks around the workshop, such as maintenance, tidying and stock level monitoring.

Assist the Movement Analysis team with routine tasks, such as video recording patient activity and safely transferring those recordings to relevant storage media.

Assist the Patient Pathway Co-ordinator in the general administration of patient devices, such as parcelling and sending devices to patients and checking devices have arrived from suppliers.

Clinical Responsibilities

1. Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team that includes orthopaedic consultants, physiotherapists, orthotists, engineers, administrative staff and other professional disciplines.

2. Have direct contact with patients, including children, with severe mobility disabilities and accompanying communication and learning difficulties. Some patients will have little or no verbal communication skills. Parents and carers may be having difficulty coming to terms with their childs conditions, physical abilities or prognosis.

3. Set up, adjust and customise equipment and showing due regard to patient safety and ease of use.

4. Record patient use of assistive technologies using video cameras and store images securely on the ORLAU server.

5. Maintain records of work undertaken for inclusion in patient notes and to comply with the ORLAU Quality Management System to ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and other management requirements.

6. Plan own work schedule to ensure that equipment for patient supply is prepared beforehand in a timely manner in accordance with the clinical diary.

Technical Responsibilities

7. Undertake a wide range of manufacturing tasks to customary levels of engineering precision. These include machining (turning and milling), fitting, welding (mainly TIG) and fabrication and will require competence in working with such materials as ferrous and non-ferrous metals, plastics, foam materials, wood, leather and other fabrics, paints and adhesives.

8. Manufacture, assemble, adjust, modify, service and maintain highly specialist equipment for use by patients with physical disabilities.

9. Assist with the receipt, repair and dispatch of externally manufactured assistive technology devices (eg from the Department of Orthotics Manufacturing or external suppliers)

10. Maintain high engineering standards and appropriate levels of precision in order to ensure quality of product.

11. Execute programmes of servicing and preventative maintenance of workshop tools and plant. Identify and manage necessary repair work (in-house or sub-contract) to workshop plant and equipment. Calibrate precision workshop measuring instruments (e.g. micrometers).

Research and Development

12. Contribute to ORLAUs research and development activities by participating in group discussions, suggesting new developments in patient equipment and manufacturing components for prototype designs under the supervision of senior colleagues.

Management/Organisational Responsibilities

13. Organise own workload, with support from senior colleagues, to ensure completion dates agreed with patients and staff are met.

14. Monitor levels of stock items such as medical device consumables, raw materials, tooling and other goods and request purchase by others as necessary in a timely manner

Education and Training

15. Participate in training courses to build skills, as specified by the senior engineering staff and technicians.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

• BTEC National Certificate/Diploma or City & Guilds Certification in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent combination of training and experience in Mechanical Engineering

Desirable

• Aptitude for electronics/computing

Experience

Desirable

• Experience of working with children and/or vulnerable adults

Skills

Essential

• Basic computer literacy

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital

Twmpath Lane

Gobowen

SY10 7AG

Employer's website

https://www.rjah.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)