Senior Clinical Engineer

The Post Holder will have a minimum three years experience post qualification in the commissioning, maintenance, calibration and repair of a wide range of medical diagnostic and therapeutic devices.

He/She will also be responsible for their own work and monitoring Contractors (in the CE Workshop Managers absence), mentoring junior engineers and representing Clinical Engineering in Trust projects.

Please note that this role may often attract a high level of applications. Please note this role may close earlier than the original closing date so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible.

Main duties of the job

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).

Check that equipment performs to manufacturer's specification.

Carry out calibration, quality control, safety, commissioning and acceptance testing.

Using technical and clinical experience, identify potentially hazardous symptoms and faults when in clinical areas or in talking to clinical staff.Advise on equipment specification, evaluation and selection

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.

We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.

In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.