Principal Clinical Engineering Technician

They will also liaise and work, as required with other staff and grades within and outside of the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department, on relevant issues including quality and safety, information and computer technology and systems.

Principal duties and responsibilities include:

1. Ensuring provision of technical support to electro medical equipment in departments across the hospital.
2. Developing systems of operation to streamline clinical engineering services and documenting associated processes. The post holder will be required to lead the development of Clinical Engineering PPPGs and KPIs
3. Have a good understanding of the Medical Devices Regulations and their application to the hospital environment. Participating in educating other hospital staff in relation to same.
4. Ensure medical device vigilance processes are managed within area of responsibility.
5. Apply analytical expertise to provide reports / analysis in relation to electro medical equipment. Prepare reports on equipment performance and life cycle costs
6. Ensuring a commitment to assuring high standards and striving for a user centred service.
7. Identify improvement opportunities within the Clinical Engineering Service.
8. Management of contract renewals for electro medical equipment, advising heads of department on the optimisation of the cost /benefits in service contracts.
9. Supervision of the senior and staff grade clinical engineers as assigned, and development of robust training for clinical engineers.
10. Ensuring the medical equipment inventory accurate and there is a complete record of work carried out on electro medical equipment.
11. Apply their ability to diagnose mechanical, electrical, electronic, IT problems/issues associated with electro medical equipment to ensure maximum uptime of electro medical equipment.
12. Provide maintenance services for electro medical equipment in respect of its functional, electronic, optical, electrical and mechanical aspects to a standard of safety, accuracy and reliability consistent with its function and with professional standards.
13. In conjunction with the Chief Clinical Engineering Technician, to liaise with management and Heads of Departments on the purchase of new and replacement planning for existing electro medical equipment
14. Advise where required, on the acquisition of new technology and equipment, including development, planning and equipping of new services.
15. Support the nursing, medical and allied healthcare staff in the implementation of technology involved in patient care and provide user/staff training as necessary.
16. Act on issues with equipment performance in accordance with relevant policies, procedures and quality systems
17. Maintain knowledge of recent technical developments and undertake supplementary training to develop both knowledge and skills
18. Demonstrate commitment to continuous professional development and participate as required in education and training including mandatory training.
19. Participation in Beaumont Hospital quality assurance, risk management and safety programmes and carry out audits and compile KPIs as required.
20. Be professionally responsible for all aspects of the post and ensure all records in relation to their work are current and well maintained.
21. To actively drive and participate in academic, seminar programmes, in-service lectures and clinical meetings by presenting new and/or relevant topics in the field of healthcare as well as provide feedback from scientific meetings and external training sessions.
22. Represent the MPCE department at Beaumont fora as appropriate (e.g. Participation on committees as and where required).
23. Ensure compliance with Health and Safety requirements and regulations including maintaining the workshop areas, tools and test equipment. Comply with the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Legislation.
24. The speciality areas assigned may change periodically and the post holder is expected to be able to provide technical support across a broad range of patient-critical medical equipment.
25. Retain sufficient flexibility and adaptability in learning in order to ensure full contribution to improving services in response to changing health care needs.
26. Performing other duties as may be assigned to him/her.
27. Work agreed rosters and/or on-call arrangements advised to you by your line manager. Contracted hours of work are liable to change between the hours of 08.00 and 20.00 hrs over seven days to meet requirements for extended day services in accordance with the terms of the Framework Agreement.   

This job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and will be subject to review in light of experience and/or changing circumstances. The extent and speed of change in the delivery of health care is such that adaptability is essential.  Consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him/her from time to time by the Chief Physicist or designate and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.

Professional Qualifications, Experience

1. Professional Qualifications, Experience, etc

(a) Candidates must,

(i) Hold as a minimum a recognised qualification at National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ), Level 7 or higher, in one of the following engineering disciplines;

(i.1) Electronic, (i.2) Electrical, (i.3) Instrument Physics, (i.4) Industrial Instrumentation, (i.5) Applied Physics, (i.6) Mechanical, (i.7) Mechtronic, (i.8) Biomedical Engineering;

or;

(ii) Hold a recognised qualification at least equivalent to one of the above;

and;

(iii) Have a minimum of five years postgraduate satisfactory and relevant experience in an appropriate medical industrial field including at least three years in a clinical engineering environment; and;

(b) Candidates must possess the requisite knowledge and ability (including a high standard of suitability and administrative capacity) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.

2. Age

Age restriction shall only apply to a candidate where s/he is not classified as a new entrant (within the meaning of the Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2004). A candidate who is not classified as a new entrant must be under 65 years of age on the first day of the month in which the latest date for receiving completed application forms for the office occurs.

3. Health

Candidates for and any person holding the office must be fully competent and capable of undertaking the duties attached to the office and be in a state of health such as would indicate a reasonable prospect of ability to render regular and efficient service.

4. Character

Candidates for and any person holding the office must be of good character.

Desirable

The candidate will also likely have some or all of the following:

• Expertise across multiple speciality areas including theatres, ICU, endoscopy, renal dialysis, cardiology, emergency department, ophthalmology, neurophysiology & general wards amongst others.
• Experience working as hospital based engineering technician.
• Engage in policy development implantation and evaluation.
• Experience in identifying gaps in provision of service, expanding service to enhance quality, effectiveness and safety in response to emerging healthcare needs. 

Name:

Paul Lowe

Title:

Chief Clinical Engineering Technician

Email address:

paullowe@beaumont.ie

Telephone:

01 852 8407