Specialist Clinical Engineer

Working Full time: 37.5 hours per week

Will be a member of a multi disciplined medical engineering team and will work without supervision on a wide range of complex medical equipment.

There will be particular responsibility for highly complex systems including patient monitoring units, diagnostic ultrasound, anaesthetic machines, life support ventilators, medical lasers, infusion devices, baby incubators and defibrillators. These equipments will at times, be connected to patients. Most of the work will be none routine and the ability to prioritise and respond to emergency requests is essential.

• To carry out acceptance testing including functional and quality assurance tests.
• To work on medical equipment that requires highly developed techniques, expertise and accurate control of precision tools and small components.
• To plan and organise maintenance tasks related to their duties and prioritise responses to emergency breakdown requests.
• To participate in the department’s emergency on-call rota.
• To negotiate with other healthcare professionals and patients in the community to obtain access to medical equipment in order to perform planned maintenance and/or repairs at mutually convenient times.
• To act as a Lead Specialist in their area of expertise, gathering complex information and disseminating relevant information.
  
  

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
  
  

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Stuart Eccles Job title: Head of Clinical Engineering Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01244 365040