Clinical Engineer

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

A vacancy exists for an enthusiastic person to work in a group providing maintenance and repair to over 50,000 medical devices to stringent quality standards. This post requires the successful candidate to have a methodical approach with attention to detail which is vital to ensure the safe maintenance, calibration and repair of medical devices. The candidate should be able to demonstrate a practical aptitude with good hand eye coordination to enable fine adjustments to delicate medical equipment to be carried out and be able to work as a member of a multidiscipline team.

Working within an ISO 9001 Quality system, providing a highly specialised rapid response service to direct patient connected medical equipment. This work includes repairing faults, first, second, third and fourth line maintenance and installation to an ever increasing range of highly complex, specialised and sophisticated electronic, electro‑medical, laser, ultrasound, scientific, analytical, electro‑hydraulic, electro‑pneumatic, mechanical and medical gas systems. This service is provided to this Trust and throughout the Sheffield area and also extends outside the area to patients’ homes.

Clinical Engineering are in the Directorate of Medical Imaging, Medical Physics (MIMP). We have three workshops across the city, these are in the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Northern General Hospital and the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Our engineers could be based in any workshop and will be expected to work across the city on occasions but will have a base. Clinical Engineering have over 60 staff, including administrators, porters, engineers and managers. Our core hours are Monday to Friday 08.30-16.30 but we do have a flexible working agreement that engineers can join after an induction period. There is a free shuttle bus between the two main sites for staff. Technical training courses will be provided where necessary. You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here.

Candidates are advised to read the attached guidance on using AI technology. When you complete your application, you are required to declare that the information in your application form is true and complete. The personal statement is exactly that; personal.

When selecting to apply via NHS Jobs, you will be redirected to our preferred recruitment system called Trac. You will be asked to create and submit your application via the Trac recruitment system. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e‑mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. All communications should be sent via your Trac system account. If you are offered employment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals your information will be transferred from the Trac recruitment system into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed. Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email sent via the Trac recruitment system, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.