Senior Equipment ManagerNHS

Job summary

Working with Medical Equipment management Unit, procurement, company representatives and the clinical teams to provide support and ensure necessary instruments, implants and consumables are ordered, received, checked, processed and available in a timely manner for operative procedures. Ensuring adherence to infection control, decontamination processes and theatre specific processes at all times. Ensuring all invoices checked and items used match, invoices to be receipted. Accurate data information maintained for all details and costs of all orders raised.

Main duties of the job

Communicate with all stake holders, company representatives, procurement, Clinical teams to raise requested orders, check, receive and process same and ensure items are all available for specific operations. Ability to use data management systems to update information and maintain accurate records.

Work with the clinical team to ensure all items required for specific procedures and for general use in theatres available.

Understand theatre equipment and be able to troubleshoot and escalate as required.

Job description

Communicate effectively with staff at all levels, external contractors and company representatives, using different forms of communication as appropriate to the person and situation.

Ensure all relevant information is relayed to the appropriate staff in a timely manner to facilitate effective perioperative patient care

Receive, record and transmit information accurately, by face to face, written, electronic or telephonic means

Liaising with the Head of MEMU and theatre management team regarding the maintenance, safe storage and usage of all medical and surgical equipment within the operating theatres.

Be proficient with use of theatre information system, identify specific equipment required for future surgery, liase with appropriate company reps to ensure equipment available, ordered and processed within correct time frame for use.

Liaising with Theatre Matron, TSSU and MEMU to ensure equipment is decontaminated appropriately, appropriate records kept and decontamination charges are correct.

Ensuring any instruments are processed in a timely manner for required procedure date, and ensuring they are processed appropriately after use and available for collection by company by the required date.

Maintain national registries, such as national joint registry, as required by NHS

Identify potential equipment problems which may affect the care of the patient and action accordingly.

About us

The North Middlesex Hospital is a very busy local hospital serving a highly populated diverse community. You would be working in a very busy, diverse multidisciplinary theatre environment, including preassessment, day surgery and recovery. The operating suite consists of seven theatres undertaking a variety of both elective and emergency surgery. Including Gynaecology, orthopaedics, trauma, urology, general surgery, breast surgery, colorectal and ophthalmology. You will be working in a friendly supportive environment, with a diverse group of staff and patients.