Medical Equipment Librarian

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

JOB OVERVIEW

The Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering Department incorporating Medical Electronics and Medical Engineering sits within the Estates Directorate. We are seeking a highly motivated and organised individual to work as a Medical Equipment Librarian
Medical Engineering is primarily concerned with providing maintenance to a wide range of highly complex diagnostic and therapeutic medical equipment both within the Trust and in other Trusts by arrangement. Such equipment embraces electrical, electronic, and mechanical and software based technologies requiring both broad and specialist knowledge.
The post holder will provide administrative duties generally to department and end user staff
This role is of vital importance and will require the individual to be proactive and highly organised individual who continually strives for service improvements.
You will provide outstanding customer service to our service users, taking a ‘can do’ approach to your duties. You will need to demonstrate good communication skills and the ability to interact with individuals at all levels of the organisation.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Relevant Trainings
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The Medical Equipment Library provides a range of services to the Trust. These services include the safe storage and care of mechanical and electro medical equipment and associated devices. The medical equipment Library is responsible for providing Loan service for medical devices

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Distributing and collecting equipment loaned from the Equipment Library
• Recording details of equipment loans using a dedicated database
• Providing a reception service for clients bring equipment for repair or seeking information about equipment
• Recording details of equipment repairs on a dedicated database
• Providing information about the progress of repairs to clients
• Providing consumables and disposables for medical equipment.
• Providing administrative support to the EME (Electro Medical Engineering).
• Assisting with the operation of the Equipment library
• Safety testing of library medical equipment
• Performance verification of library medical equipment
• Updating the CAFM (Computer Aided Facilities Management) database