Job Title: Bio-Medical Technician
Overview
The role of Bio-Medical Technician includes providing electrical safety testing of all none medical equipment,
and service and repair of a range of medical equipment. It is required that they plan and organise their
own workload and conduct the work without routine supervision.
NHS Banding
4 or 5
Salary
£21K-£30K
Formal Qualifications, education & training required
- Relevant City and Guilds qualification / NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent)
- Recognised engineering apprenticeship
Essential skills and competencies
Ability to plan and prioritise own workload and work alone. Knowledge of current practices and regulation relative to non-medical electrical safety.
Essential experience
- Experience within an engineering maintenance environment.
- Organising access to and prioritising monthly service schedules for allocated medical devices on the planned preventative maintenance program.
- Carrying out Portable appliance testing for all non-medical electrical equipment within the Trust.
- Responding to urgent service requests via supervisor or direct from the clinical user.
- Attending to equipment while in use within a patient environment to assess and solve problems or advise the user staff.
- Providing full service and repair for a specified range of non-complex medical equipment, including pressure relief mattresses, patient scales, patient thermometry, nebulisers, sphygmomanometers and other devices of similar grade.
- Carrying out routine service only to standard work instructions for a specified range of medium complexity medical devices, including BP monitoring, observation monitoring, humidifiers, slit lamps and other devices of similar grade. This includes the repair of any minor faults identified.
Job Title: Bio-Medical Engineer
Overview
The role of Bio-Medical Engineer includes routine servicing of a wide range of complex medical equipment and repairs.
It is required that they plan and organise their own workload and conduct the work without routine supervision.
NHS Banding
5
Salary
£24K-£30K
Formal Qualifications, education & training required
- BEng in electronics or BTEC HNC/D with substantial post qualification experience as a medical engineer.
- Relevant specific medical equipment maintenance training
- ECDL or ability to demonstrate equivalent computer experience.
Essential skills and competencies
- Able to work alone on own initiative and also as part of a multi-skilled and closely co-operative team.
- Systematic and analytical approach to work.
- Able to plan, prioritise and organise own workload.
- Able to communicate effectively with clinical staff and suppliers employee’s in respect of complex technical issues using any appropriate communication method.
- Able to accurately document own work, update the equipment database and retrieve information as required.
- Fully conversant with safety requirements of working on live equipment, compressed gases and machine tool regulations.
- Able to frequently move loads of 25kg.
- Skilled in the use of precision hand tools and soldering techniques.
Essential experience
- Post qualification practical electronic servicing experience with the ability to repair to component level.
- Light mechanical, optical and pneumatic engineering experience.
- Familiar with the use of generic electronic test equipment and measurement techniques
- Basic IT skills in word processing, databases and spreadsheets.
Job Title: Senior Bio-Medical Engineer
Overview
Working as a lead specialist engineer within the medical engineering department, to provide a comprehensive maintenance service for the broad range of medical equipment used in clinical areas within the trust and other associated medical facilities.
This includes organising and conducting preventative and breakdown maintenance, calibration, configuration and commissioning work.
NHS Banding
6
Salary
£31K-£38K
Formal Qualifications, education & training required
- BEng Electronics degree or equivalent plus postgraduate study, specialist training and experience to masters level.
- Relevant specific equipment maintenance & analysis software training.
- Generic physiological measurements training and a good understanding of analysis techniques employed.
Essential skills and competencies
- Able to work alone on own initiative and also as part of a multi-skilled and closely co-operative team.
- Systematic and analytical approach to work.
- Able to communicate effectively to all medical equipment user staff, manufacturers and suppliers employees regarding complex technical issues using any appropriate communication method.
- Basic IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets.
- Able to accurately document own work, update the equipment database and retrieve information as required.
- Fully conversant with safety requirements of working on live equipment, compressed gases and machine tool regulations.
- Skilled in use of precision hand tools and soldering techniques.
Desirable skills and competencies
- Leadership skills.
- Able to plan and organise own workload and that of a team of 1-5 to cover annual maintenance of approx 3000 items of equipment.
Essential experience
- Ability to demonstrate post-qualification practical electronic repair and servicing experience.
- Ability to demonstrate a broad range of medical engineering experience.
- Light mechanical, optical and pneumatic engineering experience.
Disclaimer
The salary banding for any NHS post has a clearly defined start point, and salary progression based on nationally negotiated pay scales (Agenda for Change). These bandings and pay points are widely available https://www.nhsemployers.org/pay-pensions-and-reward/agenda-for-change/pay-scales/annual
The agreed starting point for any post is at the bottom of the pay scale with annual progression until the top of the pay scale is reached. Candidates should expect to start on the bottom of the pay scale for the role they are considering unless they have previous directly related NHS experience in a similar role.
