Job summary
Join a dynamic multi-disciplinary team dedicated to one mission: ensuring safe, reliable medical devices are always available to support high-quality patient care across the Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a service known for its innovative approach and hands‑on clinical support.
You’ll play a key role in areas such as Trust‑wide resuscitation trolley equipment provision, Equipment Library operations, and technical support within weekly respiratory clinic settings.
Regular weekend working is part of the role.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out planned preventive maintenance (PPM), servicing, inspection and repair on a range of non‑complex to moderately complex medical devices
- Perform routine fault‑finding, using appropriate diagnostic techniques to identify and resolve issues
- Support the safe condemnation and disposal of medical devices
- Conduct acceptance testing for new and loaned equipment before clinical use
- Assist with the rollout of newly accepted devices into clinical areas
- Contribute to Trust‑wide resuscitation equipment schemes to ensure readiness and compliance
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
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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Details
Date posted: 25 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 4
Salary: £28,392 to £31,157 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full‑time
Reference number: 214-CSTO-8186466
Job locations: King’s Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton‑in‑Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom
Person Specification
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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: King’s Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton‑in‑Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom
Employer’s website: Apply through our website
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Principal Technician
Chris Moore
christopher.moore5@nhs.net
01623622515
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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