Senior Assistant Technical Officer

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The closing date is 05 February 2026

The Clinical Engineering Team is part of the Medical Physics Department within Humber Health Partnership NHS Trust. We provide whole life equipment management services for the range of medical equipment in use across the Trust and also in external organisations who procure our services. We have 24 members of staff based in workshops at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital sites.

The successful candidate will be required to work to high standards of safety and accountability as you collect and deliver medical devices to and from wards and clinical areas and undertake technical servicing on medical equipment. You will have a key role in within the team to ensure that work is carried out in a safe and effective manner, thus ensuring that work schedules are completed on time and in line with the planned preventative maintenance required on the Trust's and Non Trust medical equipment.

This is a demanding and challenging role requiring frequent but varied physical effort. The post involves regular communication with the nursing staff who request and return devices and with company representatives from suppliers who loan devices to the Trust.

The posts will be based at Castle Hill Hospital and offers an opportunity to work as part of a highly experienced team. We value our staff and the expertise and professionalism they bring to our work. As part of your career development we will assess and monitor your training needs and ensure that you undertake appropriate training.

Provide technical support and assistance to the Clinical Engineering equipment management service.

Special responsibility, under managed supervision, to support and assist the service and repair work activities of the medical equipment support teams.

Responsible for organising own workload

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Please note that, in line with UKVI regulations, this vacancy does not meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Visa route. As a result we are unable to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this position.

We remain committed to fair and equal recruitment practices and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

• GCSE or equivalent Grade C/4 in Maths and English
• ONC/BTEC in Science or Engineering

• 2 years minimum technical/scientific/craft support role, within a technical service environment or studied Engineering at College or in to higher education
• Possess experience in a technical support role in a medical environment

• Basic computer literacy

• Have some basic technical/scientific/craft level knowledge
• Possess an awareness of basic electrical safety
• Familiar with computer databases and stock data recording systems.

• Aptitude for working within a team
• Ability to carry out routine tasks and provide records of work completed
• Ability to organise and manage own workload
• Professional interest in developing and advancing knowledge and skills
• Capable of working without close supervision

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.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust