Job Objective/ Purpose

Planning, Organizing and coordinating all Bio-med activities to ensure the installation, maintenance, inspection, testing and repairs of all hospital equipment and machinery for optimal functionality and quality outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Supervise and offer mentorship to the Bio-med staff, ensuring delivery of professional and high standard of client service through quality of service, communication, feedback, escalation, and demonstrate follow-up.
People management: Ensure optimal staff levels including Rota, reallocation of staff depending on staffing needs, Ensuring efficient use of overtimes and locums, Identifying training gaps and liaising with HR to facilitate training, overseeing regular staff engagement and monthly staff meetings, and staff discipline per defined policies.
Plan, supervise, and carry out installation, maintenance, alterations, inspection & testing, fault finding and repairs of all biomedical equipment, providing bio-medical technical support to staff and contractors when required.
Plan, supervise, and undertake scheduled preventative maintenance for calibration equipment, biomedical and other medical equipment, including scheduled calibration.
Conduct checks, updates and reports of critical equipment and critical supplies of oxygen, medical gases and vacuum as required.
Evaluate the safety, efficiency and effectiveness of medical and biomedical equipment, identifying any gaps and risks, and report to the Ops, COP & HM for implementation
Advice the Hospital Management on planning acquisition and use of medical equipment, and prepare reports on equipment performance and cost analysis for renewal or renovation of equipment.
Collaborate with Quality Team to maintain and enforce Quality standards, participate in incident reporting, RCAs, Audits, and QIPs as required..
Ensure the unit is financially viable and demonstrate growth by managing costs and ensuring proper authorization and documentation is done.
Ensure that Avenue Healthcare corporate governance policies are adhered to, including preventing, detecting, and reporting any fraud or criminal activities, and Implementing audit recommendations.
Ensure adequate knowledge of and compliance to all Avenue Healthcare policies, procedures, and systems, especially policies pertaining to the provision of medical services
Any other duty as assigned by the supervisor.

Person Specification

Diploma in Biomedical Engineering·
3+ years’ experience, specialist in hospital machines maintenance
Supervisory and people management experience highly desirable
Customer focus and results oriented
Strong interpersonal skills, team playing abilities, and communication skills.
Highly responsive, ethical and responsible