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Based at Royal Informary of Edinburgh, St John's Hospital or Western General Hospital
As part of on-going improvements surrounding the management of medical equipment in NHS Lothian, an opportunity has arisen within the Medical Equipment Management (MEM) service for a permanent position to provide on-going system administrator support for the operational use of a new medical equipment management application (MEMA).
The main scope of the post will be to work with the MEM project team to complete the migration of the Board’s existing medical equipment records to a new system (Medusa) and then provide on-going operational support with the system. During this phase the project team will perform a medical equipment audit and re-inventory across all of the Board’s acute and community sites.
The post holder will:
- Develop administrator level knowledge and understanding of the new application in order to provide on-going application training to technical and non-technical staff throughout NHS Lothian.
- Perform routine utility tasks, including user management, developing reports and analysis tools, monitoring application logfiles for application errors, raising support calls with the software developer, advising the MEM service of upcoming application upgrades and providing ad-hoc training as required.
- Monitor the medical equipment records, identifying errors/omission and making corrections where necessary.
- Familiarise themselves with RFID technologies and two applications (a RFID management application and a surgical instrument management system) that are to be used within NHS Lothian.
- Develop knowledge of a wide range of medical devices, particularly in relation to data standards, regulatory issues and risk.
- Manage the change control process for the application.
- Liaise with other colleagues who perform a similar role elsewhere in NHS Scotland, or perhaps overseas; supporting work to align and standardise approaches to medical equipment record-keeping in Scotland and further afield.
- Provide resilience by acting as a backup to the system administration team within the Hospital Sterilisation and Disinfection Unit (HSDU) who manage the Board’s surgical instrument management application.
Please contact Dr Malcolm Phillips, Head of the Medical Equipment Management Service (malcolm.phillips@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk) for more information.