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Job Reference : 331-B23908
Job Title : Medical Engineer
Employer : University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust
Department : FGH Electronics Dept Location Barrow, In, Furness Salary £19,683 -£25,424 Working pattern : 37.5 Hours/Week
Job Type : Permanent Staff Group Estates & Ancillary Pay Scheme
Agenda for change Pay Band : 5
Closing Date : 1/08/2008

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We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, self-motivated Technician to work in the Medical Engineering Department at Furness General Hospital.

The successful candidate will be expected to perform commissioning, acceptance, maintenance, and calibration on a wide range of electro-biomedical equipment. Candidates with good practical skills and sound electronic service work experience from non-medical fields will be considered.

The candidate should have the experience and skills necessary to provide technical support for medical equipment requiring repair, maintenance and calibration, however training will be provided where necessary.

Applicants should have a National Certificate in Engineering or equivalent, demonstrate a high level of IT Literacy and posses excellent communication skills. Candidates who are studying for or do not fully meet the qualification requirements may be considered for a trainee position until sufficient experience is gained.


Informal Enquiries:
Christopher Lamb, Head of Medical Device Management on 01524 583921.

With only four days to go before the closing date, can we assume that you have yet to be swamped with "enthusiastic, self-motivated" candidates then, Joe?

Should get a better response than the Scarborough job posted on the 25th, they are offering band 4! Ridiculous.

Just as long as y'all don't forget that there are still a few "enthusiastic, self-motivated" independent freelancers around, who are not too fussy where they work, are willing to step up to the mark for a few months (as temporary stand-ins), but do prefer those sea-side bookings!

I have always wondered how the NHS work out the pay structure for ebme departments when you get more money, better benefits and you need less qualifications for jobs like this!

DW - Still not a real welder!

I wonder what the original Victorian vending machines looked like - all wrought iron and excess decoration selling patent health drinks?
Robert

... and your point is, Darth?

When I left the mob (many years ago now), one of the first jobs made available to me involved travelling around the UK servicing petrol pumps. The main "perk" being (of course) free fuel. As I look back on things, I sometimes wish I had seized that opportunity.

My point is:- what's the big deal about medical equipment? Surely it's just kit just like any other? It's the environment that (medical equipment is used in) makes it "special". And, back in my day, that's certainly how it was regarded in the REME ... it was treated, more or less, in the same way as the "green kit". And quite rightly so, in my opinion.

Victorian, Robert (George III: 1760 to 1820)? Our great Queen Victoria sat from 1837 to 1901.

You are right Geoff a piece of kit is a piece of kit - my point is why do companies and more usually the NHS ask you for qualifications and possibly a few years experience in the Medical Engineering enviroment when you can get a better package elsewhere where you just need some basic engineering experience.

DW - I think the darkside is tempting!

A history of vending machines if anyone is interested?

DW - It's too hot here today!

You ask "why", Darth ...

Well, my answer would have to be that many (I'm thinking here more of the management types) have been in the NHS so long that they're out of touch with the "real world"!

At my stage of the game, I have no particular axe to grind, but can simply report that trying to do (even temporary) work in the NHS involves having to jump through all sorts of hoops that private concerns would not even mention. It is not a question of "standards", it's just the "Jobsworth" mentality that often seems to prevail (in any large public organization - of which the NHS is the sole surviving civilian example on a colossal scale). On the other hand, private companies just want you to get the work done!