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We are currently out to advert for an MTO 3 type technician in our electronics workshop at Basildon Hospital Essex. Applicants should apply at

http://www.southend-hospital.co.uk/recruitment/jobsindex.html

Job ref 437-2004c

for further information please contact me on 01268 598070, or email gary.cordery@btuh.co.uk

Thanks
Gary Cordery

sorry forgot the important bit

Salary: £20,458 - £21,630 per annum

What qualifications will the succesful candidate have? Does MEMS bother will details like that? How many vending machine repairmen can one Medical Electronics Dept need?

Hey Panander,

What's your problem then, Mate? If you need more details, why not just look at the link? What do you mean by the remark about "vending machine repairmen"? Is this just another wind-up, or what? Take care, Pal, the Brothers are on to you!

Huw,

For some reason the above contribution was posted twice (?), so here I am editing out the second one. Go ahead and delete this if you like.

Cheers, Geoff

No worries Geoff.

I think that from now on - after a vacancy is posted, I'll lock the thread.

Then at least we won't get any pointless comments like the one above....

Careful now Huw, there may be a demand for Vending Machine Repairmen, after all, I do believe it is an honest way of making a living

Looking at the pitiful 'packages' now on offer in some of the privatised 'MEMS' services then I guess that some of the private companies (Achtung Minen!!) are finding it harder to recruit good quality experienced staff than NHS departments. Training is also an issue for shorter-term contracted services - why train in the companies products, or at all, when the staff could be transferred to another employer at the end of the contract? They just need 'bodies' in-post it seems - 'Monkey-see, Monkey-do' as an ex-colleague of mine, SK, used to say.

Then I suppose they have to let the requirements for candidates qualifications and experience slip in comparison to Whitley Council guidelines to recruit anybody at all to do the 'dirty work'. Only the same as some NHS managers have done you might say but it seems to me that private companies have stopped offering good salaries to lesser qualified and experienced biomeds and are now trying to 'pack-em in and pile-em high' on lower salaries with commensurate qualifications, little, or no experience.

Horses for courses I suppose but I feel sorry for the experienced biomeds that have to 'carry' the new starters. Actually I think the reference to vending machine repairmen was a bit naughty Panander ( Repairpersons actually) - any of us could find ourselves in that position in the future - remember it's someones living, someone has to do it and I drink a lot of pop.

Personally I would only consider working as a 'full-employee' of a private company (GEE I'd really like that if it came down to it) rather than a privatised biomed working in the NHS. I believe there is a two-tier system existing in the servicing arrangements of some private companies where biomeds' pay and conditions are quite different depending upon whether you are employed for the company working on the companies products or whether you work, for the same company, as a 3rd party contractor providing a 'service' to the NHS.

Of course this assumes the 'bottom tier' (Arsche-Ende) conditions imposed upon 'new starters' to the 3rd party company - Vending Machine Repairpersons or whatever - after the experienced, knowledgeable, albeit 'expensive' TUPE transferred NHS staff have had their noses pushed out of the trough and the 'sty' has been swept clean.

Thread locked....