EME/Clinical Engineer Infusion Pumps Support - #142523

Job Overview

Join Our Team: EME/Clinical Engineer – Infusion Pumps Support (Band 5)

Base location: Frimley Park Hospital (FPH)

Salary: Band 5 – NHS Agenda for Change

Contract: Permanent | Full-time

Please note: This role does not offer sponsorship

Are you a dedicated and driven clinical or biomedical engineering professional with a passion for improving patient care through cutting-edge technology and service excellence? We’re offering an exciting opportunity to be part of a brand-new, specialist team within the EME/Clinical Engineering department – focused on supporting and maintaining the Trust’s infusion systems.

Main duties of the job

This newly created post forms a vital link between internal teams and external stakeholders, helping us take the next step in transforming how we manage over 3,500 infusion devices Trust-wide.

You will play a key role in delivering a safe, efficient, and fully in-house service for the maintenance and repair of a wide range of infusion systems – including syringe drivers, PCA pumps, epidural and TCI devices, and enteral feeding pumps.

You’ll be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure high standards of equipment availability, compliance, and patient safety – aligning with national guidance and the Trust’s long-term strategy.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Deliver preventative and corrective maintenance for infusion devices across all Trust sites
• Support a dedicated in-house service model and contribute to equipment lifecycle management
• Provide hands-on repairs, safety checks, and performance testing to ensure manufacturer compliance
• Act as a key liaison with clinical teams, supporting staff with technical queries and device safety guidance
• Mentor and support apprentices and junior staff within the engineering team
• Lead initiatives to integrate infusion systems with digital platforms like EPIC/EPR
• Help develop, review and implement policies, SOPs, and risk assessments relating to infusion equipment
• Monitor and escalate safety notices, product recalls, and regulatory compliance action
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Relevant engineering qualification (e.g. HNC/HND or degree in Clinical Engineering, Medical Electronics, or equivalent experience)
• Practical experience with infusion devices or similar electro-medical systems
• Strong understanding of safety and regulatory standards for medical equipment
• Confident communicator, able to work collaboratively with clinical and technical colleagues
• Passionate about innovation, service development, and improving patient outcome
  

For a full list of duties, responsibilities and essential criteria, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.

If you are motivated by the opportunity to make a real difference in healthcare technology and want to contribute to a growing and respected service, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and help us build a safer, smarter future for our patients.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree/HND/HNC or equivalent in Electronics, Physics or Biomedical Engineering
• In depth knowledge of modern medical devices, systems and standard, particularly with respect to testing and evaluation
• Some knowledge of modern computer-based systems and some IT knowledge/awareness
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Specific studies / qualifications in Medical Instrumentation both generic and specific equipment courses including relevant study/ knowledge of physiology and aspects of medicine.
• Qualifications in Physics and Maths to A level or equivalent.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Professionally gained experience in several different areas of electronics, preferably including medical electronics e.g. infusion devices, ventilators, incubators, ultrasound machine, etc.
• Extensive experience of troubleshooting to board level on a wide variety of electronic and computer-based systems
• Extensive experience of electrical testing using varied range of test equipment
• Supervisory experience in a workshop environment
• Proven level of responsibility where mistakes directly impinge on the safety/well-being of others
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Specific servicing experience in medical equipment in NHS or commercial environment.
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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