Head of Medical Device Services - Oldham, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group
Northern Care Alliance NHS Group
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Oldham, United Kingdom

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28/07/202- The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge.

Together, we've a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore.

If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
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come and take your place with us.

Job overview:

Have you worked with medical equipment in either a clinical or engineering capacity? Have you got experience of managing a complex service?


The NCA are looking for a motivated individual to support our highly skilled Medical Device Services Leads in providing safe use and availability of medical equipment for patients.

We achieve this through training, maintenance and repair, innovation design and manufacture of bespoke devices and library services.


They will ensure that the multi-professional team of staff reflects the skill mix requirements of the services and are managed within a framework which deploys them effectively to provide reliable operational services.


Main duties of the job:


Lead medical device related activities across divisions to ensure that the medical device services remain responsive to the needs of patients and clinical care.


Provide the primary, specialist interface between the Trust and external contacts/regulators for all medical equipment issues across the NCA Group.

Act as the NCA authority for clinical incidents involving medical device related harm and death.

Lead senior team meetings and instil a culture of open communication and constructive dialogue within and across teams.


Act as NCA Lead, responsible for ensuring that a technical advice, guidance and communication systems, relating to all adverse incident reports for medical devices failure/compliance, is in place.

Analyse FSNs and medical device related Patient Safety Alerts (PSA) to determine all of the complexities and implications.

Lead, plan and provide guidance and processes across the NCA to ensure actions are sufficiently and transparently managed, recorded and reported within the required timescales.

Be responsible for Medical Device Services' business continuity plans


Develop action plans to provide assurance of compliance with CQC, PAM and other regulatory bodies in relation to medical devices.

Develop and maintain a detailed replacement plan, forecasting needs up to five years ahead.

Develop policies to provide guidance to operational users, trainers and managers, in the safe use of medical devices.

Analyse service performance and action plan to achieve KPIs


Working for our organisation:

Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world's first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts.

Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital.

As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.


Detailed job description and main responsibilities:


Person specification:


Qualifications:


Essential criteria:


  • Specialist professional/academic qualification at masters level or equivalent knowledge
  • First level degree in Health Technical, Management or Education
  • Involvement with relevant national body
  • Evidence of CPD

Knowledge:


Essential criteria:


  • Post qualification experience in senior manager position
  • Analysing clinical incidents, RCA and reports for coronial process or legal team
  • Professional development

Desirable criteria:


  • Post qualification experience in senior manager position
in medical device management or purchasing/contracts


Experience:


Essential criteria:


  • Leading and delivering complex organisational change
  • Encouraging innovation and an entrepreneurial approach to support service delivery
  • Successful negotiation and contract management

Skills:


Essential criteria:


  • Negotiation and influencing skills including conflict resolution
  • Oral and written communication skills
  • Analytical and judgement skills demonstrating an ability to interpret and act on complex information.
  • Prioritise and manage time, people and resources to deliver required outcomes
  • Knowledge and experience of the operation of NHS Organisations
  • Performance Management and development of staff
  • Selfmotivating with a drive to develop medical device services.
  • We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to
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