EME / Clinical Engineer Infusion Pumps Support

The role is a new but critical link for internal and external clients to help develop the department of EME/Clinical Engineering to the next level of specific 'infusion systems' asset maintenance.
Within this new role is 1 vacancy (Band 5 (based at FPH) to assist in the service and maintenance of Infusion systems across sites from Infusion/Syringe/End of Life, PCA, Epidural, TCI, and other devices such as feeding pumps.
The overall concept is to draw this in-house and have a dedicated professional team to support PPM and Repairs of the 3500 devices cross sites., The role is to provide the provision of a new service within EME/Clinical Engineering that will align infusion systems maintenance and meet new department strategic objectives. With the need to,
+ The role will allow the work as an essential link between the main Eme/Clinical Engineering section on all sites with the ability to be direct and support a team of apprentices along with identification and implementation of local infusion systems initiatives.
+ The role will ensure that all infusion systems cross-site are maintained to the manufacturer's specific guidance but overall Corrective and Preventative Maintenance program of works are dealt with and actions ensuring safety and compliance throughout the whole trust.
+ The post holder will act as the main contact between the Trust internal and external stakeholders. They will combine all of the above to further develop and improve the EME/Clinical Engineering Department for ultimate lifetime management asset lifetime management with traceability as required by the various health regulatory bodies and manufacturers.
+ The Post Holder will form part of a multi-disciplined team whose role is to provide the best possible service to the Trust ensuring their contribution is beneficial to other departments within the Trust, as well as the Medical Electronics, to fulfil the Trust's overall objectives

Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
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, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future., + The post holder will work with all medical device repairs related to infusion systems and assist as required in the event of demand/leave and sickness cross-site.
+ They will be part of a team for infusion-related medical device repairs with responsibility for ensuring that the actions and requirements support safe and effective patient care.
+ To be able to guide staff and further identify faults, carry out repairs and planned maintenance to sophisticated electro-medical equipment program as necessary.
+ To carry out regular safety assessment and testing of equipment.
+ The role will further be the liaison between the infusion systems team and internal leadership.
+ To be able to work with and align work of infusion integration and the complexities to align the devices to Epic/EPR.
+ To be part of the support team for specialist advice on the safe use of infusion devices, contributing to a high-quality, evidence-based service.
+ To action plans in supporting the complex preventative maintenance programs.
+ Provide advice to clinical staff and other relevant staff groups in the context of infusion systems priority recalls for safety and validation.
+ Provide advice to colleagues in resolving operational and medical device infusion management issues.
+ To act as an appropriate infusion systems team in the development and following of medical device safety-related policies, SOPs, guidelines, and protocols.
+ Provide advice towards medical devices strategy development and implementation.
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o Ensure the Trust is compliant with any infusion-based standards.
o To follow workload as directed and the wider infusion team within agreed objectives deciding when to refer work to others as appropriate.
o Works with colleagues to understand the root cause analysis of the issues and report accordingly within the desired course of action.
o Has the ability to work with other staff within the trust and Eme to alleviate any concerns with regard to medical devices.
o Responsible for the ordering of spare parts and assisting in the maintenance of stock levels.
o Responsibility to raise awareness of part needs.
o To be self-led for training requirement for self-technical compliance.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. 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 are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
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, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.