Band 6 Medical Devices Training Coordinator
The closing date is 06 November 2025
The Post holder, will have the responsibility to facilitate the training of all staff in the safe and competent use of medical equipment. The post holder will ensure a strategic and coordinated approach that will recognise and minimise the associated risks in relation to the use of medical devices during patient care. The post holder will be required to formulate, implement and evaluate a multi-disciplinary competence-based education programme with a full range of supporting training materials. They will have knowledge in evaluating training needs, directly deliver training and assess staff using devices across the organisation. They will ensure that evidence of staff training is documented and recorded centrally, providing reports as required.
Main duties of the job
- Facilitating training sessions
- Assist with the development of training outlines, session plans, learning objectives, competency statements and visual aids ensuring a consistent approach to training is implemented and delivered across the Trust to all medical device users.
- Assess training and educational needs of staff using medical devices
- Support the Link Trainers in all clinical areas to deliver standardised training on an ongoing regular basis to all medical device
- Negotiate and plan training input with suppliers of medical devices to the Trust on an ad hoc and annual basis following purchase agreements.
- Schedule and supervise company-training sessions that will comply with standards of performance for Trust staff in the safe and competent use of equipment.
- Collaborate with Heads of Departments and the identified links, recognising and establishing medical device training needs of staff on a targeted and demand led basis.
- Verify that all relevant training policies and procedures are consistent with legislative requirements and the requirements of Trust policies, amending where necessary and highlighting discrepancies to relevant key stakeholders.
- Contribute to the maintenance of Trust procedures in the reporting of faults and adverse incidents to Medical Engineering Department and Risk Management.
- Establish and maintain paper-based documentation and computer-based training records ensuring a robust records system.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job responsibilities
Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description
Person Specification
Qualifications
- In depth knowledge of a broad range of medical technologies and their application in clinical practice.
- Experience of further academic/personal development to maintain registration with relevant bodies.
- Formal teaching qualification or equivalent experience teaching groups and individuals.
- Degree plus further in-depth experience and postgraduate training in medical engineering or education.
- Registered as a Clinical Technologist, Nurse or another recognised healthcare professional body.
Experience
- Ability to develop and evaluate competency-based training material.
- Planning and management of education programmes.
- Ability to think and work at a strategic level.
- Ability to lead change and service improvement.
- Audit & monitoring standards.
- Evidence of supporting and training others in a clinical environment.
- Delivery of formal and informal teaching sessions.
- Ability to challenge concepts and traditional thinking and facilitate this to others.
- Knowledge and understanding of nursing in relation to medical devices
- Understanding knowledge of medical devices and environment it's used in
- Able to monitor standards
- Knowledge of clinical governance
- Awareness of national/local agendas in relation to medical devices
- Teaching and training strategies
- NHS Resolution & Clinical Governance
- Must have and maintain in depth understanding and knowledge of legislation and official guidance relating to medical devices
Additional Criteria
- Ability to, co- ordinate and deliver training across professional boundaries Trust wide
- Able to prioritise own workload
- Ability to deliver on deadlines
- Able to work within a rapidly changing environment
- Ability to work across professional boundaries
- Participate in or where required chair internal meetings
- Presentation skills (with use of IT skills)
- Ability to work independently with effective time management
- Working knowledge of IT including use of databases and spreadsheets
- Ability to produce quarterly and annual reports
- Ability to maintain accurate records
- Able to transport medical devices and training materials across Trust sites
- Delivery of direct teaching and assessing
- Ability to concentrate for prolonged periods and work in isolation
- Ability to challenge concepts and traditional thinking and facilitate this in others
- Knowledge and ability to apply health and safety policies
- Training in a wide variety of sometimes unsuitable venues
- Ability to work in isolation
- Single entity position
- Self motivated with ability to work as part of a team.
- Committed to Health and Safety.
- Capable of producing high standard of work.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to work under supervision.
- Willing to under go further training.
- Effective communication skills & motivator of others.
- Lateral thinking with a pragmatic, problem solving approach.
- Professional
- Confident
- Ability to advise in purchasing equipment in line with established contracts
- Ability to effectively liaise with companies
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
