Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone.
Job Overview
We are looking to employ two highly motivated, enthusiastic, and hardworking apprentices to join our expanding and friendly Clinical engineering team here at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.
The Clinical Engineering team is responsible for the management of medical devices throughout their lifecycle; from commissioning newly purchased devices, to periodic maintenance and breakdown repair, to the safe decommissioning of devices at the end of their lifecycle.
The post holder will be required to work predominantly across our main sites of University Hospital Lewisham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, depending upon department workload demands and your own development needs. The post holder will also be expected to occasionally visit our community sites across south east London.
Main Duties of the Job
- Qualifications and Training: You will be trained to maintain and repair modern medical devices used throughout the Trust.
- During training: To learn and perform the duties of an Associate Clinical Technologist, under the guidance and supervision of qualified members of the Biomedical Engineering team.
- On completion of training: To provide technical and engineering support as part of the Clinical Engineering service catering for all general clinical areas within the Trust.
Person Specification
- Essential criteria: A minimum of five GCSEs at grade A* to C/9-4) (or equivalent qualification) including Mathematics, English, and Science.
- Essential criteria: A-levels or equivalent such as BTEC in a relevant science or engineering subjects.
- Desirable criteria: Basic understanding of Clinical Engineering settings in Hospital environment
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve.
