London, England, United Kingdom
As the data lead for UCLH I am the administrator to various Trust systems for managing Medical Devices. These include the asset tracking system, The Point of Care Testing Devices management system and the Assest management system and produce reports for the Trusts Medical device committee, procurement, Care Quality Commission (CQC), as well as freedom of information requests. I assist clinical engineering management in identifying how to improve the services the department provides to the Trust. UCLH has recently launched an electronic health record system (EHRS). One of the objectives of this system was to include medical device data to patient records. I was one of a few in the clinical engineering department that assisted with the integration of medical device to the EHRS As the Training Lead for Medical Device at UCLH I am responsible for ensuring that staff training for Medical devices is organised for all Staff and that training is being recorded correctly. I help co-ordinate training with manufacturers and ensure that departments have access to Medical Device training materials. In this role I am also developing with the education department an E-learning solution for Medical device training. So that all training can be recorded centrally and reported on. In this position, I chair the Trusts Medical Device Committee - User Training Subcommittee, in which I report and participate in the main Medical Device Committee. I also attend UCLHs Point of Care Committee, Medical Gases Committee and asset management committee. I have actively been involved in writing various Hospital policies and standard operating procedures and am the author to the Medical Device training policy. I also actively participate in the regional meetings for the National Association of Medical Device Trainers (NAMDET) where we discuss best practice for delivering and monitoring medical device training.
As a senior technologist, I was part of a small team of specialist engineers that provides first line support on the Hospitals medical equipment across all the hospitals that form UCLH Trust. This includes the Heart Hospital, Eastman Dental Hospital, Royal National Throat, Nose, and Ear Hospital, UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre University College Hospital and The Hospital of Tropical Diseases. As part of this team, I provide training, support, maintenance, calibration and repair of the Trusts medical equipment, working closely with the Intensive Care and Theatre departments on a wide range of medical equipment. I specialize in Anaesthetic machines, ventilators and bloodgas analyses which I support across all UCLH hospitals. In my role I am included in the small group of senior technicians that provide a 24-hour on-call service to ensure that the hospitals have access to technical staff assistance or information in case of emergencies within the Trust. Due to my previous employment and past training, I also assist with maintaining the specialist equipment in the Neonatal department. This makes me one of the few technicians that work for the Trust that can cover for all the specialized technician areas. This allows me to assist with workloads during periods of high demand and allows me to provide leave cover to help with the general operation and running of the equipment management department. I have a very active role within the department and am a member of the Asset Database user group, The Medical Physics Training Committee and I am one of the department’s internal auditors for ISO 9001. I work very closely with the Medical Physics quality manager to improve and introduce new processes and to ensure that we as a department are following the Trust values of improving safety through Kindness and teamwork.
In my time at GOSH my role was Biomedical engineer working in the electronic section of the Biomedical Engineering department. My day to day duties was the repair, maintenance, and calibration of the Trusts medical equipment. But I also had the responsibility of being one of the administrators for the hospital asset register (F2) and hospital asset tracking system. Due to my IT skills, I was one of the few engineers that had the responsibility of looking after the network of the patient monitoring system in the intensive care areas. The biomedical engineering department at GOSH had ISO 9001:2008 quality management system accreditation, so all work I performed was carried out correctly to these standards. During my first few years at GOSH, I was the commissioning officer. This meant I was solely in charge of the commissioning and acceptance testing of all new Hospital assets as well as the decommissioning and disposal of the old. This roll made me understand the importance of correctly accepting and removing assets in line with hospital policy environmental procedures to ensure the hospital was compliant with the law but also safely. This included arranging the selling of some of the old equipment which I would have to arrange with third parties to try and recover the maximum amount of return for the Trust. Throughout my time at GOSH I had a key role in the training of staff. For the new members of the biomedical engineering department, I would show them how to carry out repairs and calibrations on equipment we managed, but also demonstrate how to use the asset management system to ensure they were following the department's quality management system. My other training duties were to the medical staff. I would carry out training on the use of equipment, how to set it up and when to use it, as well as being the trainer for the Trust on using the asset management system.