Job summary
Expected Shortlisting
Date:
11/04/2025
Planned Interview
Date:
27/05/2025
We
have a vacancy for an enthusiastic and motivated specialist technician to
play a key supporting role in the care and maintenance of a broad range of
life support medical equipment. The job will be based at St. James hospital
but will necessitate working across the Trusts other sites. This is an
opportunity for a skilled Medical Electronics Technician to discover a
challenging and rewarding career working with the vast range of equipment
used in life support, treatment and diagnosis of patients.
You
will have a degree or equivalent qualifications in electronic engineering
with knowledge of medical electronics, procedures and practice, underpinned
by specific equipment training. You will either be a registered technologist
or able to achieve this within the first year of appointment.
Informal
enquiries may be made to the Technical Services Manager,
Mr.
Tim Hutchinson at St James telephone number, (0113 20) 64153.
Main duties of the job
1. Repair & maintenance of complex,
specialist medical devices from a wide range of clinical specialities.
2. Inventory management using a database
of over 50,000 assets
3. First line response to field
breakdown and technical enquiries across five hospital sites.
4. Technical support and advice to users
of medical therapeutic and diagnostic devices.
5. Working with a team and Team Leader
to manage workloads and meet performance targets.
6. Managing the planned maintenance of
medium and high-risk devices.
About us
You
will be working in a team of 10 other specialist technicians and engineers to
meet the targets set by our organisation. Clinical Engineering has four teams
of engineers, two regular and two specialist teams to provide equipment
management and maintenance service to our Trust of 5 hospital sites across
Leeds.
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals is a large, multi-disciplinary Trust employing over 20,000
staff members and have a core values system known as The Leeds Way. The
benefits of working in Clinical Engineering at Leeds is exposure to a vast
array of diverse medical devices and a culture of continual improvement. This
role will suite candidates who are dynamic and like to be kept busy, this is
a busy department with many and varied challenges within it, however, you
will benefit from a knowledgeable and supportive team.
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'
members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts
are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove
adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the
shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this
process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any
questions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
Medical Physics & Engineering departments responsibilities include the
management of an extensive range of highly specialist medical equipment and
related services throughout the Trust, as well as community and private
healthcare institutions. The range of equipment includes but is not limited
to patient monitoring & life support equipment, surgical systems,
anaesthesia systems, ventilators, infusion devices, renal dialysis,
ultrasound, x-ray, radiotherapy and medical laboratory equipment.
Teams
of technical officers deliver these services, and the incumbent is a senior
member of one of these teams, responsible to its Team Leader. He/she may be
required to deputise for the team leader during short periods of absence
(with the exception of personnel and financial management duties), and take
responsibility for managing specific additional tasks such as calibrating
test equipment or organising technical service manuals etc. The senior
technician will be expected to work closely and effectively with other
technical and clinical staff in the specialist clinical areas for which the
team is responsible, to ensure delivery of a high-quality service. The post
may be based at either St Jamess University Hospital or the Leeds General
Infirmary.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
Medical Physics & Engineering departments responsibilities include the
management of an extensive range of highly specialist medical equipment and
related services throughout the Trust, as well as community and private
healthcare institutions. The range of equipment includes but is not limited
to patient monitoring & life support equipment, surgical systems,
anaesthesia systems, ventilators, infusion devices, renal dialysis,
ultrasound, x-ray, radiotherapy and medical laboratory equipment.
Teams
of technical officers deliver these services, and the incumbent is a senior
member of one of these teams, responsible to its Team Leader. He/she may be
required to deputise for the team leader during short periods of absence
(with the exception of personnel and financial management duties), and take
responsibility for managing specific additional tasks such as calibrating
test equipment or organising technical service manuals etc. The senior
technician will be expected to work closely and effectively with other
technical and clinical staff in the specialist clinical areas for which the
team is responsible, to ensure delivery of a high-quality service. The post
may be based at either St Jamess University Hospital or the Leeds General
Infirmary.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Highly developed in depth specialist knowledge of medical electronics, procedures and practice. Registered clinical technologist.
- Specialist medical equipment training. Electrical safety of medical equipment (IEC60601/ IEC62353))
- In depth knowledge of medical electronics / computing and other medical technologies procedures and practices.
- Knowledge of construction and workmanship standards in medical electronics
- Basic legal framework including indemnity. Basic anatomy and physiology.
Desirable
- Sound knowledge of computer database / I.T. skills.
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Team working
- Patient focused.
- Ability to continuously update and learn new skills to keep abreast of new and emergent technology.
- Ability to make one-off judgements on suitability of medical equipment where clinical need and risk factors must be considered in addition to technical information.
- Proven ability to interpret complex facts, analyse and fault find on highly complex multi-faceted items of specialist medical equipment.
- Manual dexterity, accurate hand eye co-ordination and use of precision instruments.
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional electronics knowledge through a BEng Honours Degree in electronics, computing or similar/equivalent qualification / experience.
Desirable
- Post graduate diploma or equivalent, underpinned by extensive experience in the field and specialist equipment training
Other Criteria
Essential
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to communicate complex technical equipment-related information to staff, colleagues, suppliers.
- Can persuade/negotiate with staff and suppliers.
- Pass occupational health screening.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Highly developed in depth specialist knowledge of medical electronics, procedures and practice. Registered clinical technologist.
- Specialist medical equipment training. Electrical safety of medical equipment (IEC60601/ IEC62353))
- In depth knowledge of medical electronics / computing and other medical technologies procedures and practices.
- Knowledge of construction and workmanship standards in medical electronics
- Basic legal framework including indemnity. Basic anatomy and physiology.
Desirable
- Sound knowledge of computer database / I.T. skills.
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Team working
- Patient focused.
- Ability to continuously update and learn new skills to keep abreast of new and emergent technology.
- Ability to make one-off judgements on suitability of medical equipment where clinical need and risk factors must be considered in addition to technical information.
- Proven ability to interpret complex facts, analyse and fault find on highly complex multi-faceted items of specialist medical equipment.
- Manual dexterity, accurate hand eye co-ordination and use of precision instruments.
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional electronics knowledge through a BEng Honours Degree in electronics, computing or similar/equivalent qualification / experience.
Desirable
- Post graduate diploma or equivalent, underpinned by extensive experience in the field and specialist equipment training
Other Criteria
Essential
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to communicate complex technical equipment-related information to staff, colleagues, suppliers.
- Can persuade/negotiate with staff and suppliers.
- Pass occupational health screening.
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.
