Job Title: Medical Engineering Supervisor (EBME)
Overview
Supervision of the medical engineering department, which provides a comprehensive maintenance and support service
for the broad range of medical equipment used within the trust and associated medical facilities. This will include, organising and conducting preventative and breakdown maintenance, calibration, configuration and commissioning of medical devices.
NHS Banding
7
Salary
£38K-£44K
Formal Qualifications, education & training required
B Eng Electronics degree or equivalent plus postgraduate study, specialist training, and experience to masters level.
Essential skills and competencies
Generic physiological measurements training and a good understanding of analysis techniques employed. Good understanding of current medical equipment regulations and standards and national requirements. 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. Leadership skills. Able to plan and organise own workload and that of a team of 1-6 to cover annual maintenance of approx 5000 items of equipment. Able to communicate effectively to all medical equipment user staff, manufactures 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.
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.
- Experience in allocating and assessing the work of a team of 1-6 people
Job Title: Medical Engineering Manager (EBME)
Overview
Provide full management and engineering support to the Trusts’ medical devices and laboratory instrumentation. The continuous development and operation of flexible, efficient and effective commissioning, maintenance, repair, and calibration service to the various types of medical devices and laboratory instrumentation used throughout the Trust and other associated external medical facilities. Responsibility for all processes involved in the safety and safe use, from initial request for purchase through acceptance to eventual disposal, of all medical devices and laboratory instrumentation used within the Trust.
NHS Banding
8a
Salary
£45K-£51K
Formal Qualifications, education & training required
- B Eng (or equivalent) level electronic engineering.
- Relevant specific equipment maintenance training.
- Medical device analysis software training.
- Generic physiological measurements training and understanding of analysis techniques employed by instrumentation.
- Recognised medical device maintenance qualification.
Essential skills and competencies
- Ability to accept and exercise management and technical responsibility for the Medical Engineering department.
- Ability to apply knowledge and techniques to the solution of technical and practical problems on a wide variety of medical devices and laboratory instrumentation.
- Ability 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. Leadership skills. Ability to oversee the planning necessary to ensure the provision of annual maintenance to the Trusts 4000+ medical devices.
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues effectively to managers, user staff, manufacturers and supplier’s employees using any appropriate communication method.
- Ability to negotiate effectively with manufacturers and suppliers. IT skills in word processors, databases, spreadsheets and analysis software, including database construction, development and maintenance.
- Ability to accurately document own work, update the equipment management database and retrieve information as required.
- Skilled and safe whilst working on equipment whilst exposed to live mains electricity, compressed gas, ionising and non-ionising radiation.
- Skilled in use of precision hand tools and soldering techniques on electro-statically sensitive and delicate high component density circuit boards.
- Ability to ensure accurate repeatable calibration standards. Ability to operate on equipment in stressful and emotional situations (patient areas).
- Manage and maintain a balanced financial budget. Develop In-House service provision and off-site working.
Essential experience
Demonstrable senior management experience. Post qualification practical electronic repair, calibration and servicing experience. Post qualification experience in medical engineering. Multi-skilled – encompassing Electronic & Electrical, Light Mechanical, Optical, Pneumatic and Hydraulic engineering experience. Ability to work safely and in compliance with the appropriate professional codes of practice.
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.
