EME Cross Site - Community Engineer

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

As a member of the Eme/Clinical Engineering Team, the post holder will be responsible to attend al community sites under FHFT North and South to provide repair, Planned Preventative Maintenance for medical devices. The post holder will act as the core responsible person who will define workloads and ensure that KPI’s are aligned to the Eme/Clinical Engineering strategy and address issues and plan accordingly to the preset expectations.
The role acts as an essential link between the main Eme/Clinical Engineering section on all sites and the continual growing hospital growth with the ability to guide and support first line and draw on expertise as needed from the onsite EME teams.
The post holder will be based across the 3 sites and with planning have the ability to plan with work demands secure hot desks with the primary site being Core- Heather wood Eme workshop, Wexham and Frimley Workshop and Community. Through experience of working with medical devices should understand the responsibilities and factors involved in the safe management and support end users / customers with their planning , queries and overall be the responsible person as the face of EME services overall in the community setting.
The job is very autonomous but has core values to eet which are,
To work in conjunction with the main team of engineers and their apprentices, to include allocation of work,
To deal with all medical device repairs and (keeping information real time for a concise and traceable process).
They will work in accordance with the current roster e g based 4 months FPH, based 4 months WPH and based 4 months HW or as per demand per site providing, ‘bench support supporting immediate teams and demands.
To be accountable for the spare parts and have the ability to order and manage local stock under non pay.
To review options to adapt the workshop within Heather wood Hospital Eme Workshop.
To act as primary point of contact for community related medical device repairs with responsibility for ensuring that the actions and requirements relating to these repairs and to make difficult decisions to support safe and effective patient care.
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .
Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
To work with the EME department and Community Stakeholders to ensure that all medical devices are centrally controlled for corrective and preventative maintenance and acted upon trust wide. Additionally, implement solutions to ensure compliance to the required manufacturer standards as per the Medical Device Management Standard 2021 and company specific testing guidance. In line with the above to ensure that end users are aware of the actions required and further to ensure that testing and validation compliance is validated for stakeholders. Further to enable users and EME to undertake the required corrective actions ensuring KPi’s and set methods are acted on, signed off, documented, and validated

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