Clinical Engineering Technician

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a Clinical Engineering Technician, you will play a key role in supporting patient care by ensuring medical equipment across the Trust is safe, reliable, and fully operational. You will undertake the maintenance, repair, calibration, testing, and commissioning of a wide range of medical devices, provide specialist technical support to clinical teams, and contribute to equipment safety, quality assurance, risk management, and staff training. The role also involves liaising with external suppliers and manufacturers, maintaining accurate service records, supporting service improvement initiatives, and helping to deliver a high-quality Clinical Engineering service across Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital.

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Person specification

Education & Qualification

Essential criteria

• Degree, HND, HNC, BTEC, OND, ONC in an appropriate engineering discipline, i.e. Electronics, Mechanics etc

Desirable criteria

• Registered Clinical Technologist

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Must be able to work as part of a team and also to work independently, making potentially complex and technical decisions without supervision
• Ability to prepare documents and papers that may have a wide, multidisciplinary audience

Personal qualities

Essential criteria

• Be able to physically lift heavy equipment, carry out repetitive equipment testing and work in awkward positions several times each day

Important

• There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date, this will be due to a high volume of applications. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please check your emails regularly (and your junk folder) as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.
• Some roles may require weekend shift working across multiple sites
• We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Right to work

If you need sponsorship to work in the UK, please visit the Home Office website for information on sponsorship and visa status before you fill in your application form. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on