EBME Engineer
Description✓Role: EBME Engineer
✓Location: University hospital Lewisham, SE13 6LH
✓Pay: Band 5 = £20ph or Band 6 = £24ph [Which band you’re placed at is down to the Trust]
✓Hours: 9am – 5pm, Monday - Friday
✓Contract: ASAP start required / Initially for 3 months with potential to be extended
✓Job Summary:
✓The Post Holder will be responsible for commissioning, maintenance, calibration and repair of a wide range of medical diagnostic and therapeutic devices, within the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, including community:
✓* Being responsible for their own work and monitoring Contractors [in the EBME Supervisors absence], and the implementation of Quality Assurance Procedures, as required.
✓* Orientation training will be given in the specialised field of Biomedical Engineering followed by specific device courses.
✓* Equipment covered comprises both Medical Devices and Laboratory Instrumentation, including electronic, electrical, mechanical, computer software and medical gas systems.
✓Key Result Areas & Performance:
✓* Provide specialised clinical technical services for preventative maintenance, servicing, inspection and repair to a wide range of complex and patient-critical medical devices and laboratory equipment.
✓* Communicate with clinical users and laboratory staff to gain a clear understanding of the nature of problems with equipment
✓Assess the seriousness and implications of the problem and respond appropriately to the urgency of the user request.
✓* Undertake advanced fault-finding
✓Apply suitable fault-finding techniques to diagnose problems, including those beyond the scope of manufacturer supplied information
✓Report novel fault conditions to manufacturers
✓Exercise judgement to determine the causes of faults in devices with multiple complex and inter-related systems [e.g
✓electronic, computer and mechanical systems], which may be due to user error, equipment failure or environmental issues [e.g
✓temperature, RF interference].Rectify complex equipment faults
✓Undertake repairs on complex mechanisms to component level.
✓* Resource materials, spare parts and service providers.
✓* Check that equipment performs to manufacturer’s specification.
✓* Carry out calibration, quality control, safety, commissioning and acceptance testing.
✓* Carry out electrical and functional safety checks.
✓* Remove unsafe/uneconomic equipment from service and prepare it for safe disposal
✓* Using technical and clinical experience, identify potentially hazardous symptoms and faults when in clinical areas or in talking to clinical staff.
✓* Liaise with clinical staff to adjust planned maintenance schedules in response to short-term clinical needs.
✓* Advise on equipment specification, evaluation and selection.
✓* Keep relevant maintenance and technical records of work performed
✓In particular ensure the equipment management computer database is operated in an accurate, methodical manner with work being logged as it progresses until completion.
✓* Issue appropriate components and spares from stores, monitoring stock levels and reordering where necessary.
✓* Take responsibility for all tools and equipment within the Post holder’s care
✓Ensure workshop facilities are kept clear and well-ordered and that all equipment is maintained to acceptable standards
✓Where EME equipment is passed to others to use, make sure they are authorised to use it in a safe and effective manner.
✓* Provide technical advice to medical and other staff groups as required.
✓* Liaise with manufacturers to obtain information and provide feedback on equipment performance.
✓* Provide technical expertise and assistance to other functions within the Department as appropriate.
✓* Assist with the Section Helpdesk Service.
✓* Keep accurate records of all work performed and update all appropriate records.
✓* Raising “Purchase Orders” for the procurement of goods and services to facilitate the prompt return to service of equipment.
✓* Inform the E.M.E
✓Workshop Manager and other E.M.E
✓staff of the condition and performance of the equipment within the Post holder’s care.
✓* Participate in regular meetings with the E.M.E
✓Services Manager and fellow staff.
✓* Act as identified engineer for one or more clinical areas, acting as first point of clinical contact and acquiring specific knowledge on particular items of equipment.
✓* Ensure customers receive a high quality, prompt and efficient service and are kept up to date on the progress of their outstanding work.
✓* Be familiar with and follow the Trust’s incident reporting procedure.
✓* Prioritise and manage own work in accordance with Section policies and competing service demands
✓Propose changes to own working practices and procedures Show more →
✓Location: University hospital Lewisham, SE13 6LH
✓Pay: Band 5 = £20ph or Band 6 = £24ph [Which band you’re placed at is down to the Trust]
✓Hours: 9am – 5pm, Monday - Friday
✓Contract: ASAP start required / Initially for 3 months with potential to be extended
✓Job Summary:
✓The Post Holder will be responsible for commissioning, maintenance, calibration and repair of a wide range of medical diagnostic and therapeutic devices, within the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, including community:
✓* Being responsible for their own work and monitoring Contractors [in the EBME Supervisors absence], and the implementation of Quality Assurance Procedures, as required.
✓* Orientation training will be given in the specialised field of Biomedical Engineering followed by specific device courses.
✓* Equipment covered comprises both Medical Devices and Laboratory Instrumentation, including electronic, electrical, mechanical, computer software and medical gas systems.
✓Key Result Areas & Performance:
✓* Provide specialised clinical technical services for preventative maintenance, servicing, inspection and repair to a wide range of complex and patient-critical medical devices and laboratory equipment.
✓* Communicate with clinical users and laboratory staff to gain a clear understanding of the nature of problems with equipment
✓Assess the seriousness and implications of the problem and respond appropriately to the urgency of the user request.
✓* Undertake advanced fault-finding
✓Apply suitable fault-finding techniques to diagnose problems, including those beyond the scope of manufacturer supplied information
✓Report novel fault conditions to manufacturers
✓Exercise judgement to determine the causes of faults in devices with multiple complex and inter-related systems [e.g
✓electronic, computer and mechanical systems], which may be due to user error, equipment failure or environmental issues [e.g
✓temperature, RF interference].Rectify complex equipment faults
✓Undertake repairs on complex mechanisms to component level.
✓* Resource materials, spare parts and service providers.
✓* Check that equipment performs to manufacturer’s specification.
✓* Carry out calibration, quality control, safety, commissioning and acceptance testing.
✓* Carry out electrical and functional safety checks.
✓* Remove unsafe/uneconomic equipment from service and prepare it for safe disposal
✓* Using technical and clinical experience, identify potentially hazardous symptoms and faults when in clinical areas or in talking to clinical staff.
✓* Liaise with clinical staff to adjust planned maintenance schedules in response to short-term clinical needs.
✓* Advise on equipment specification, evaluation and selection.
✓* Keep relevant maintenance and technical records of work performed
✓In particular ensure the equipment management computer database is operated in an accurate, methodical manner with work being logged as it progresses until completion.
✓* Issue appropriate components and spares from stores, monitoring stock levels and reordering where necessary.
✓* Take responsibility for all tools and equipment within the Post holder’s care
✓Ensure workshop facilities are kept clear and well-ordered and that all equipment is maintained to acceptable standards
✓Where EME equipment is passed to others to use, make sure they are authorised to use it in a safe and effective manner.
✓* Provide technical advice to medical and other staff groups as required.
✓* Liaise with manufacturers to obtain information and provide feedback on equipment performance.
✓* Provide technical expertise and assistance to other functions within the Department as appropriate.
✓* Assist with the Section Helpdesk Service.
✓* Keep accurate records of all work performed and update all appropriate records.
✓* Raising “Purchase Orders” for the procurement of goods and services to facilitate the prompt return to service of equipment.
✓* Inform the E.M.E
✓Workshop Manager and other E.M.E
✓staff of the condition and performance of the equipment within the Post holder’s care.
✓* Participate in regular meetings with the E.M.E
✓Services Manager and fellow staff.
✓* Act as identified engineer for one or more clinical areas, acting as first point of clinical contact and acquiring specific knowledge on particular items of equipment.
✓* Ensure customers receive a high quality, prompt and efficient service and are kept up to date on the progress of their outstanding work.
✓* Be familiar with and follow the Trust’s incident reporting procedure.
✓* Prioritise and manage own work in accordance with Section policies and competing service demands
✓Propose changes to own working practices and procedures Show more →