Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Perform planned preventative maintenance and safety inspections on a wide range of medical equipment, such as emergency lifting  equipment, suction units, tympanic thermometers, pulse oximeters, and others, in accordance with manufacturers' recommendations.
• Conduct electrical safety testing of medical equipment to ensure compliance with safety standards.
• Under the supervision of senior technicians, carry out complex fault-finding and repairs on medical equipment, ensuring timely resolution of technical issues.
• Assess, commission, and perform acceptance testing on new medical equipment prior to clinical use.
• Maintain an up-to-date and accurate medical equipment inventory within the Trust’s asset management database, ensuring data integrity and completeness.
• Accurately complete and maintain all technical records related to commissioning, maintenance, and repairs for own work in both paper and electronic formats.
• Upload manufacturer service reports to the Trust’s Asset Database for equipment under external service contracts, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of asset records.
• Conduct routine audits of medical equipment and accessories within the Medical Equipment Workshop.
• Under the supervision of senior technicians or the Section Manager, manage the decommissioning and disposal of medical equipment in compliance with Trust policies and regulatory requirements.
• At the request of the Section Manager, the post holder will be responsible for the delivery and collection of medical equipment to and from any of the Trust’s ambulance stations or hubs.
• The post holder will be required to visit the Trust’s ambulance stations and hubs, as directed by the line manager, to exchange medical devices and ensure compliance with annual servicing and maintenance requirements, including at unsocial hours to minimise disruption to frontline operational teams.
• When required, work from any of the Trust’s ambulance stations to carry out audits, maintenance, and repairs of medical equipment to support operational needs.
• Adhere to Trust policies and procedures, maintaining competency in servicing and maintenance activities, including attending training sessions provided by external suppliers.
• Maintain personal Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to ensure up-to-date knowledge and skills.
• Perform any other reasonable duties appropriate to the role and banding.

This is a 3-year blended learning course, with three five-day blocks at UWE Bristol in each year for seminars, laboratory and practical sessions, plus tutorials and assessments.

The rest of the learning is work-based and requires a combination of directed and independent studies alongside hands-on experience.

Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year.

We are the busiest emergency ambulance service in the UK serving one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities. We provide emergency and urgent healthcare that is free to patients at the time they receive it.

We are the only NHS provider trust to serve the whole of London and the nine million people who live in, work in or visit the city.  We cover an area of 620sq miles and have more than 8,000 people who work or volunteer for us – rising to 10,000 when including bank staff and students.

We answer around two million 999 calls a year and our crews attend more than 3000 emergencies a day. Our 24-hour 111 integrated urgent care services London answer around two million calls a year.

We play a leading role in integrating access to emergency and urgent care in the capital and are striving to ensure patients receive the right response, in the right place, at the right time.

Our main role is to respond to emergency 999 calls, providing medical care to patients across the capital, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Other services we offer include providing pre-arranged patient transport and finding hospital beds. Working with the police and the fire service, we are prepared for dealing with large-scale or major incidents in the capital.