Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and motivated professional to lead our Workshop Services team within Clinical Engineering at King's Mill Hospital.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a department with a proud history of excellence, renowned for setting and developing the highest standards within the Clinical Engineering specialty community. The department has maintained continuous registration to the ISO 9001 Quality Management Standard, verified through external BSI auditing since 1990, demonstrating our long-standing commitment to quality, safety, and innovation.

As Workshop Services Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the effective delivery of maintenance services for a wide range of medical devices and equipment across the Trust, while leading and developing a highly skilled technical workforce.

Please note: Professional registration is essential for this role (for example, registration with the Register of Clinical Technologists (RCT) or an equivalent professional body).

This role offers the opportunity to lead a respected and high-performing team within a department recognised for its long-standing commitment to quality and innovation. You'll have the chance to influence service delivery across the Trust, contribute to patient safety, and support the development of the next generation of Clinical Engineering professionals.

Join us at King's Mill Hospital and help shape the future of Clinical Engineering services.

Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential

• Immediately contribute to the Clinical/Technical services of Memd, taking day-to-day responsibility for the effective delivery of the maintenance section
• Continue to act as an independent practitioner, the postholder must therefore possess the knowledge and skills required for registered clinical technologist status
• Requirements of the post include: Ability to organise, supervise and monitor section staff, including their development
• Effectively plan and deliver maintenance activities, including repairs and PPM
• Significant knowledge and skills in the technical support of medical devices
• Specialist medical device testing systems
• Detailed understanding of medical device management principles and application
• Extensive range of knowledge and skills in using computer technology both for general use and in medical device applications
• Advance engineering and workshop skills
• The postholder must possess good communication/interpersonal skills, commensurate with supervising and influencing staff in order to ensure a cohesive and effective section
• The postholder must possess the ability to work to deadlines in order to meet agreed targets

Further training
Essential

• Will have attended a range of manufacturer's technical training courses including evidence of training in supervisory skills and basic management techniques

Experience
Essential

• Significant experience of planned maintenance, repairs and acceptance testing to a wide range of medical devices and a minimum of seven years experience of medical device maintenance.
• Evidence of effective staff supervision

Contractual
Essential

• Registered Clinical Technologist through RCT or AHCS

Qualifications
Essential

• Good quality academic qualifications in Engineering/Healthcare technology field e.g. (HNC/HND/Degree
• Specialist knowledge through Post-Graduate Diploma, specialist equipment training and experience

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.

We are an equal opportunities employer.