Clinical Equipment Courier / Librarian | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

An opportunity has arisen to join the Medical Equipment Library team at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB). The Medical Equipment Library is a centralised service responsible for issuing, tracking, maintaining, and managing medical devices across Trust sites, ensuring equipment is safe, available, and fit for use. In this role, you will support wards and departments by ensuring timely access to essential medical equipment required to deliver safe and effective care to patients within our acute hospital environments. The role is operational, hands-on, and contributes directly to patient safety and service delivery. Working Pattern and Requirements

• Part-time:22.5 hours per week
• Core hours:08:00 - 16:00(subject to service needs)
• Includesweekend working
• Flexibility required to support service demand, including holiday and sickness cover
• Required to work acrossDerby and Burton hospital sites
• This role isnot a driving position
The post holder will support the day-to-day operational delivery of the Equipment Library service, ensuring equipment is available, safe, and appropriately managed. Key duties include:
• Collecting, delivering, and distributing medical equipment across wards and departments
• Receiving, checking, cleaning, and preparing equipment for reissue in line with infection prevention and control guidance
• Ensuring all equipment is functional, safe, and ready for clinical use prior to issue by following work instructions
• Maintaining equipment in a charged and ready-to-use state where applicable
• Recording all equipment loans and returns accurately using Trust systems
• Maintaining the medical equipment asset database in line with Trust policies
• Supporting stock control processes, including monitoring equipment levels and consumables
• Identifying faulty equipment and arranging transfer to Clinical Engineering for repair
• Responding promptly to equipment requests
• Acting as a point of contact for clinical staff requiring equipment
• Liaising with nursing, clinical, and support staff to ensure service needs are met
• Following all relevant Trust policies, including infection control and health and safety requirements
• Maintaining accurate records to support audit and compliance processes
  
  As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we play a key role in improving the health and wellbeing of our patients, staff and partners by delivering Exceptional Care Together.
Our core values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin everything we do and guide our behaviours across the Trust. By joining the Equipment Library team, you will be contributing to a service that underpins safe and effective patient care across multiple hospital sites. In return we will offer:
• Development opportunities
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
• We are the 4thbusiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.