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Clinical Engineer
at North Tees & Hartlepool Solutions Other in Other (Published at 12-12-2024)
Key Result Areas 1. Maintains medical equipment used within the Trust, across all sites, in compliance with Safety Regulations, Codes of Practice and agreed Policies of operation ensuring an efficient and effective medical equipment maintenance service to the Trust. This includes participating in the departmental out-of-hours on-call system. 2.
Conducts operational maintenance in respect of specialist equipment to ensure an optimum degree of efficiency and maximum possible use of such equipment. 3. Contributes to the day to day maintenance of the departments equipment history records ensuring up to date and accurate records are held in a system facilitating easy information retrieval. 4.
Provides sound and accurate advice on the specification of new equipment and maintains a record of schedules of equipment and any action taken on the specification, modification or the results of any Hazard or Safety Notices, ensuring that all relevant details are easily accessible. 5. Provide costing information for repairs and parts to assist in budget monitoring and stock control. Undertakes stock checks with respect to spares, tools and test equipment to ensure an appropriate level of stock is held within the Department in accordance with its needs.
6. Instruct and advise Clinical/Nursing staff, as required, regarding the correct, safe and proper use of equipment, ensuring such staff are aware of all relevant factors and are able therefore to make efficient use of the equipment. 7. Advise patients and carers, often in their own homes, as required, regarding the correct, safe and proper use of appropriate medical equipment, ensuring at all times that patients and carers are handled with the utmost of care and sensitivity whilst maintaining confidentiality.
8. Undertake discussions as required with Company Representatives and service personnel, regarding potential new equipment purchases and maintenance of existing equipment, facilitating a good working relationship between the Trust and appropriate outside companies. 9. Undertake any training which is identified as being necessary to update skills and knowledge in relation to effective performance of the post in a specialist area requiring complex and non-routine work and passing this knowledge on to colleagues by means of demonstrations and presentations.
This area being decided by existing and future service development. 10. Retrieve on a timely basis, information as required by Clinicians and Senior Nursing Staff or other Professionals, ensuring that such requests can be dealt with efficiently. 11.
Supervise and instruct apprentices as necessary and contribute to their progress assessment.. 12. Complying with the Quality System in place within the Department, ensuring its maintenance and on-going certification. 13.
Deputise for the Chief MTO as necessary.
Conducts operational maintenance in respect of specialist equipment to ensure an optimum degree of efficiency and maximum possible use of such equipment. 3. Contributes to the day to day maintenance of the departments equipment history records ensuring up to date and accurate records are held in a system facilitating easy information retrieval. 4.
Provides sound and accurate advice on the specification of new equipment and maintains a record of schedules of equipment and any action taken on the specification, modification or the results of any Hazard or Safety Notices, ensuring that all relevant details are easily accessible. 5. Provide costing information for repairs and parts to assist in budget monitoring and stock control. Undertakes stock checks with respect to spares, tools and test equipment to ensure an appropriate level of stock is held within the Department in accordance with its needs.
6. Instruct and advise Clinical/Nursing staff, as required, regarding the correct, safe and proper use of equipment, ensuring such staff are aware of all relevant factors and are able therefore to make efficient use of the equipment. 7. Advise patients and carers, often in their own homes, as required, regarding the correct, safe and proper use of appropriate medical equipment, ensuring at all times that patients and carers are handled with the utmost of care and sensitivity whilst maintaining confidentiality.
8. Undertake discussions as required with Company Representatives and service personnel, regarding potential new equipment purchases and maintenance of existing equipment, facilitating a good working relationship between the Trust and appropriate outside companies. 9. Undertake any training which is identified as being necessary to update skills and knowledge in relation to effective performance of the post in a specialist area requiring complex and non-routine work and passing this knowledge on to colleagues by means of demonstrations and presentations.
This area being decided by existing and future service development. 10. Retrieve on a timely basis, information as required by Clinicians and Senior Nursing Staff or other Professionals, ensuring that such requests can be dealt with efficiently. 11.
Supervise and instruct apprentices as necessary and contribute to their progress assessment.. 12. Complying with the Quality System in place within the Department, ensuring its maintenance and on-going certification. 13.
Deputise for the Chief MTO as necessary.
