Junior Clinical Engineer | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

We are recruiting for a Junior Clinical Engineer who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Junior Clinical Engineer is responsible for the lifecycle management of medical equipment within the Trust Sites especially EBME Equipment Library, ensuring all devices are maintained, calibrated, and compliant with safety standards. Additionally, the engineer will assist with other clinical engineering tasks and projects as needed to support the EBME Services.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

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• Provide clinical technical services including preventative maintenance, servicing, inspection, and repair for a variety of medical equipment.
  
• Liaise effectively with clinical users to clearly understand equipment issues, assess the severity and potential impact, and prioritize responses based on urgency.
  
• Perform fault diagnosis using appropriate fault-finding techniques; report any novel or unusual faults to the Team Lead.
  
• Exercise sound judgment to identify root causes of equipment malfunctions.
  
• Repair equipment faults, conducting repairs down to the component level as needed.
  
• Verify that equipment functions according to the manufacturer’s.
  
• Conduct calibration, quality control, safety testing, and acceptance testing to ensure optimal device performance.
  
• Perform electrical and functional safety checks to maintain compliance with safety standards.
  
• Cover for the Equipment Librarian during absences by managing equipment loans, returns, and inventory control to ensure smooth and uninterrupted operations within the EBME Equipment Library.
  

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• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
  
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
  
• Hertford County, Hertford
  
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
  

We run the following hospitals: The Lister Hospital, Stevenage; New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City; Hertford County, Hertford; Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood. We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient‑led Trust where dedicated staff provide high‑quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

This advert closes on Friday 23 Jan 2026.