About CHI
Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) operates as a single service across the existing Dublin children’s hospitals, Crumlin, Temple Street and Tallaght. Also, the paediatric outpatients and urgent care centres, Connolly which opened in July 2019 and Tallaght which is due to open in 2020. CHI governs and operates local paediatric services for the Greater Dublin Area and all national paediatric specialist services, some of which are on an all-island basis.
The Children’s Hospital Group and the relevant Boards in each of the Children’s Hospitals considered a proposed Corporate and Clinical Governance paper in February 2014 and approved the need to progress with a clinical directorate structure to underpin how paediatric services are managed across the Hospital Group.
Particular Purpose of these Posts.
Currently there are three Clinical Engineering Technician, Principal to be filled and each has a particular role to play in the successful transformation of the hospital to the new facility.
The Clinical Engineering Technician, Principal, will provide Clinical Engineering and Technical support to all hospital medical equipment including diagnostic, analytical, therapeutic, surgical, and life support systems in Children’s Health Ireland Group as directed by the local reporting relationship. The holder of this post will not be under detailed day to day supervision and will be expected to exercise initiative in the performance of his/her duties.
The post holder will have a lead role and responsibility for a particular speciality or specialities. This will be determined based on the post holders skill set, interests, speciality experience and the organisational requirements. The speciality areas assigned to the successful candidate may change periodically and the post holder is expected to be able to provide technical support across the full range medical equipment used in a paediatric setting. Additionally, there will be a requirement to provide annual leave cover to other speciality areas, and support across any of the CHI city wide sites.
The successful candidates will liaise with other staff and grades in the service they support to ensure that the medical equipment is operated and maintained so as to support safe, effective, and efficient delivery of clinical services. They will be expected to provide leadership within the HTD team and act as agents for change and quality improvement, adoption of innovation and advancement of patient care.
For a full Job Description and further details of all three posts please follow links below.
How to Apply & Informal Enquiries
The closing date for submissions of CV’s and letter of application is Friday 17th December 2021 by 6pm.
Applications must be completed through the advertised post on CHI.jobs by clicking ‘Apply for Job’.
Applications will not be accepted through direct email or any other method.
For informal enquiries for this specialty/department, please contact
Fran Hegarty, fran.hegarty@nph.ie
For other queries relating to this recruitment process, please contact
Kirsty Ogden, Kirsty.ogden1@nchg.ie
