Assistant Clinical Technologist

at  Whittington Health NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and dynamic assistant clinical technologist to join the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Team at the Whittington Health NHS Trust.
Key responsibilities, performing a range of technical activities on community medical devices across our integrated care organisation, including audits, repairs, maintenance, calibration, performance & safety checks, and acceptance checks on all community equipment.
The Whittington Health NHS Trust provides general hospital and community services to 500,000 people living in Islington and Haringey as well as other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield and Camden.
The successful candidate will have a minimum Higher National Certificate / Diploma in Electronic or equivalent experience and a sound safety first approach. A willingness to learn, develop and to aspire to become a clinical technologist capable of working independently on more sophisticated medical devices.
The post-holder will possess effective skills in communication; planning workloads and will be able to demonstrate motivation and customer focus in their way of working.
This post will require travelling between Whittington Health NHS Trust community sites.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Key responsibilities, performing a range of technical activities on community medical devices across our integrated care organisation, including audits, repairs, maintenance, calibration, performance & safety checks, and acceptance checks on all community equipment.
To ensure that all jobs and maintenance work undertaken is recorded within the Equipment Management database and good practice is followed in record keeping whether work done by self or by others being supervised.
Correctly perform the regular maintenance of medical equipment in accordance with work procedures and to ensure that all equipment support activities conform at all times to the quality management system.
In liaison with the Team Leader, to establish areas and devices to be prioritised
Promptly identify any problems with medical equipment and ensure that those devices are removed from clinical areas and taken to the workshop for repair.
Planning and Organisation
To participate in a rota with other technologists, so as to ensure continuity of cover to all sites
To maintain and repair equipment according to agreed protocols, calling upon colleagues and/or Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) support and technical advice when required.
To work largely unsupervised but as part of a wider team providing technical and engineering support to clinical users.
To ensure that spare part stock levels are kept at levels consistent with workload demands.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Title: Assistant Clinical Technologist
Band: 4
Hours of Duty: 37.5 hours per week
Annual Leave: 27 days per annum
29 days after 5 years NHS service
33 days after 10 years NHS service
Department: Medical Physics Department
Accountable to: Director of Surgery and Cancer ICSU
Director of Operations Surgery and Cancer ICSU
Head of Medical Physics
Chief Technician
Maintenance and repair will take place in the main department workshops, hospitals, patient’s homes and other healthcare environments as part of Whittington Health ICO NHS Trust and all Service Level Agreements (SLA) with other Trusts. Patients may be present who are subject to therapy, nursing or surgical procedures in the vicinity when fault investigation has to be done as a matter of urgency.
The post holder after the requisite training will be expected to and be capable of working independently.
Manufacture training will be provided where needs are highlighted and in consultation between head of medical physics and the medical physics senior technologist.
Clinical
To understand the clinical application for the medical equipment maintained
Responsible for accurate repair, maintenance and calibration of support equipment, equipment providing patient medication and producing diagnostic information
Management
To understand the clinical application for the medical equipment maintained
To ensure patient safety, by making certain that all medical equipment is maintained according to manufacturer’s guidelines
To agree with clinical staff and clinical departments the scheduling of medical equipment maintenance
To prioritise, plan and organise own work schedules adjusting for emergency work
To propose and implement changes in policy or work procedures/instructions within own area
To be responsible for ordering spares and consumables within budget guidelines
To keep the medical equipment database up to date
To contribute and manage objectives as set within the Quality Management System
Advisory
To liaise with clinical staff on the safe use of medical equipment
To provide advice to non-technical clinical staff on the safe use of medical equipment. To assist in deciding whether medical equipment should be removed from clinical use
Education & Training
To undertake formal manufacturer technical training courses to maintain and develop competence to repair existing medical equipment and to deal with new types of complex medical equipment
To undertake training of less experience or new staff

PHYSICAL SKILLS:

Daily to utilise with high levels of dexterity, accuracy and concentration hand tools, service and testing equipment (mechanical, electrical and electronic).
Ensure that required tasks are executed in accordance with appropriate Health and Safety legislation, policies and procedures.

To ensure that all items of test equipment are calibrated / verified for correct operation accordance with technical support services quality system requirements.
To ensure that all equipment spares, and any identified consumables used as part of equipment service support are handled and stored within standard accepted safe limits and criteria.
To liaise with colleagues to ensure that sufficient stocks of physical spare parts and other ancillary items are ordered so as to ensure stock levels match equipment support workloads.
Responsibilities for information resources
Able to use excel, word and PowerPoint.
Use equipment management database with responsibility for data entry/records
Other
The job overview description is not intended to be exhaustive, and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after consultation with the post holder. You will be expected to actively participate in annual appraisals and set objectives in conjunction with your manager. Performance will be monitored against set objectives