Biomedical Engineer

Responsibilities

The post holder will provide comprehensive medical device maintenance, repair, commissioning and management services to a wide range of clinical specialties. Other responsibilities include:

• To assist with the whole life cycle management, support and maintenance of medical devices across Northampton General Hospital
• Undertake maintenance and calibration of medical devices and update the maintenance
• Ensure all devices supported by Clinical Engineering operates safely, cost effectively and with minimum disruption to patient care.
• Train and advise nursing and other staff in the safe use of medical devices.
  
  

Perform a wide range of technical duties, mainly guided by procedures involving autonomous work on medical equipment in the clinical and workshop environment to ensure the optimum effectiveness, reliability, availability, and safety of medical devices.

To commission, calibrate, maintain, and repair a wide range of medical devices e.g., Infusion pumps, patient monitors, ECG recorders, Defibrillators, etc...

Investigate and test medical devices, analysing the results to diagnose faults or problems and rectify them. Demonstrating equipment operation and techniques to individual users where this is a solution to a problem.

Communication of investigation results to users, colleagues, and suppliers, sharing knowledge and experience.

Using primarily computerised systems, make accurate equipment maintenance history records and other information supporting audit, quality, and performance monitoring.

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values

• Compassion

Accountability

Respect

Integrity

Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.

We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Paul Doolan Job title: EBME Manager Email address: paul.doolan@nhs.net Telephone number: 01604545440