Medical Engineering Technician

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Job Overview

We are looking for a motivated and skilled Medical Engineering Technician to join our dynamic EBME (Electronic and Biomedical Engineering) team. This is an excellent opportunity to play a vital role in ensuring safe, effective, and reliable medical equipment across the Health Board.

You will carry out a wide range of technical activities, including the repair, maintenance, calibration, and testing of patient-connected medical devices. Working both independently and as part of a team, you will support clinical services by ensuring equipment is safe, compliant, and fully operational.

If you are passionate about medical technology and want to make a real difference in healthcare, we encourage you to apply.

Main duties of the job

• Repair, service and calibrate a diverse range of electro-medical devices
• Perform acceptance testing, commissioning, configuration, and electrical safety testing
• Deliver and maintain planned preventative maintenance (PPM) programmes
• Prioritise and organise daily workloads based on clinical need
• Maintain accurate records using equipment management systems
• Provide technical advice and guidance to clinical and non-clinical staff
• Support clinical training for new medical devices
• Contribute to service improvement initiatives and departmental development

You will also be required to work both in the EBME workshop and across clinical sites, handling specialised equipment and tools.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Qualifications And Knowledge

Essential criteria

• BTEC HNC /HND or Degree in Electronic Engineering or equivalent level of knowledge in a subject appropriate to the area of work.

Desirable criteria

• Recognised Qualification in Medical Engineering.
• Knowledge acquired through attendance of manufacturer’s medical equipment training courses.
• Supplementary training courses specific to medical devices.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Relevant hands on experience in repair and maintenance of electro medical devices.
• Competent, capable and able to perform electro medical equipment servicing safely and effectively
• Experience within the NHS.
• Good understanding and significant experience of servicing and maintaining a wide range of electro medical devices following a recognised period of training
• Experience in electrical safety testing practices.

Desirable criteria

• Experience in planning maintenance and repair of PPM (Planned preventative maintenance)
• Experience of Medical device/equipment management databases

Skills and Attributes

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of electronic systems and fault finding on complex equipment to component level
• Calibration techniques using specialised test equipment.
• A good knowledge of computer database and management systems.
• Ability to follow departmental and Trust procedures
• Good organisation skills

Desirable criteria

• A broader knowledge of computer database and management systems.
• Ability to create, modify and distribute information using preferred software packages.
• Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh

Other

Essential criteria

• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work alone or as part of a team
• Ability to take direction and training.
• Plans own work with consideration to clinical needs
• Flexible to meet the needs of the service
• Ability to be independently mobile

Desirable criteria

• Willingness to undertake training and learn new skills.
• Ability to identify the service demands and have the self-motivation to complete the task.