Job overview
To participate in the provision of medical equipment acquisition approvals and commissioning within Clinical Engineering at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. This will include the identification, acquisition, planning, commissioning, deployment and management of new and replacement devices following a strict compliant acquisition and approval process prior to adoption of equipment. The post holder will work as part of a larger team to process complex device information of both clinical and technical natures. The post holder must have the ability to communicate with NHS and medical device industry stakeholders to help support the Medical Equipment Planning Unit (MEPU) team activity.
The post holder will be based at the City Hospital campus.
Main duties of the job
Daily work associated with co-ordinating and supporting the administration functions of the Medical Equipment Planning Unit (MEPU)
Daily work supporting the chasing up of and administration of medical device approvals
Daily work associated with administration of equipment activity records
Daily work associated with supporting MEPU
The post holder will assist MEPU in preparing equipment and assessing equipment readiness for deployment to clinical teams
Assist MEPU with appropriate filing, photocopying, scanning and faxing of relevant document
Working for our organisation
The Medical Equipment Planning Unit (MEPU) is a hard working and dynamic team within Clinical Engineering, responsible for ensuring the
clinical teams receive the medical equipment technology they require efficiently and that the equipment is managed safely over its lifetime in order
to support the delivery of high quality patient care.
The postholder will benefit from working centrally to a multi-disciplinary Clinical Engineering
department and will be continuously exposed to the latest medical equipment technologies.
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
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- Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
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