Associate Healthcare Scientist – Medical Engineering
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4JL
Salary
£28,392 to £31,157
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
17 September 2026
14 days left
Job description
Join a dynamic multi-disciplinary team dedicated to one mission: ensuring safe, reliable medical devices are always available to support high-quality ...
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
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.
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Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Contribute to the Clinical Engineering services of MEMD including planned maintenance, repair, acceptance and condemnation
- Knowledge and Skills applied to medical equipment will include
- Acceptance testing
- PPM
- Electrical Safety Testing
- Electrical and Mechanical Tools
- Fault Finding
- Computer Technology
- Use of test Equipment
- Communication/interpersonal skills, commensurate with effective team working and liaison with clinical and professional colleagues
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 4 qualification e.g. HNC/D in Electrical/Mechanical/Medical Engineering or equivalent. Candidates with the lower qualification would be taken on via Annex 21 in a training role to reach this minimum level
Further Training
Essential
- Additional Knowledge achieved through attendance of manufacturer's training courses for non-complex and moderately complex medical devices
Experience
Essential
- Experience of maintenance and repairs of a comprehensive range of complex and moderately complex medical electrical/electronic/mechanical devices
Desirable
- Experience working within Healthcare Environment
Contractual Requirements
Desirable
- Driving Licence
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
3 September 2026
Last checked
3 September 2026
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