Medical Equipment Technician - Apprentice
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Rainham (RM13 8HY)
Closes in 13 days (Monday 6 July 2026)
Posted on 23 June 2026
Contents
Summary
This role is integral to the effective management and maintenance of critical medical equipment used across the Trust. The post holder will be responsible for the acceptance testing, repair, calibration, and planned preventative maintenance of a wide range of medical devices, ensuring they remain safe, functional, and compliant.
- Wage
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£33,262 a year
- Training course
- Healthcare science practitioner (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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37.5 hours per week.
Shift pattern: Rotating 07:00-15:00, 08:00-16:00, and 09:00-17:00.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Friday 31 July 2026
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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2
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Perform planned preventative maintenance and safety inspections on a wide range of medical equipment, such as emergency lifting equipment, suction units, tympanic thermometers, pulse oximeters, and others, in accordance with manufacturers' recommendations.
- Conduct electrical safety testing of medical equipment to ensure compliance with safety standards.
- Under the supervision of senior technicians, carry out complex fault-finding and repairs on medical equipment, ensuring timely resolution of technical issues.
- Assess, commission, and perform acceptance testing on new medical equipment prior to clinical use.
- Maintain an up-to-date and accurate medical equipment inventory within the Trust’s asset management database, ensuring data integrity and completeness.
- Accurately complete and maintain all technical records related to commissioning, maintenance, and repairs for own work in both paper and electronic formats.
- Upload manufacturer service reports to the Trust’s Asset Database for equipment under external service contracts, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of asset records.
- Conduct routine audits of medical equipment and accessories within the Medical Equipment Workshop.
- Under the supervision of senior technicians or the Section Manager, manage the decommissioning and disposal of medical equipment in compliance with Trust policies and regulatory requirements.
- At the request of the Section Manager, the post holder will be responsible for the delivery and collection of medical equipment to and from any of the Trust’s ambulance stations or hubs.
- The post holder will be required to visit the Trust’s ambulance stations and hubs, as directed by the line manager, to exchange medical devices and ensure compliance with annual servicing and maintenance requirements, including at unsocial hours to minimise disruption to frontline operational teams.
- When required, work from any of the Trust’s ambulance stations to carry out audits, maintenance, and repairs of medical equipment to support operational needs.
- Adhere to Trust policies and procedures, maintaining competency in servicing and maintenance activities, including attending training sessions provided by external suppliers.
- Maintain personal Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to ensure up-to-date knowledge and skills.
- Perform any other reasonable duties appropriate to the role and banding.
Where you'll work
Unit 7, Segro Industrial Park
Consul Avenue
Rainham
RM13 8HY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL
Training course
Healthcare science practitioner (integrated degree) (level 6)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Practice in line with the legislation, standards of proficiency, codes of conduct and ethics that apply to healthcare science practitioners.
- Promote non-discriminatory, equitable and inclusive practices and ensure that each person is treated with dignity and respect.
- Promote the principles of a duty of candour, acting with integrity and in the best interest of individuals.
- Recognise and resolve problems and support others to do the same.
- Identify ways of promoting own good mental health and wellbeing and that of others.
- Independently analyse or interpret accurately clinical technical data.
- Be responsible and accountable for the safety and functioning of equipment evaluating and resolving issues.
- Analyse, present or explain technical results to others.
- Develop and review standard operating procedures (SOPs) and support others to participate in the process.
- Practice or support the provision of person-centred care.
- Promote and maintain the principles of a duty of care, safeguarding and protection, working with others to ensure individuals do not come to harm.
- Practice and support others to apply policy and protocols that relate to informed consent.
- Deliver or support the delivery of high quality clinical technical procedures as applicable to own role.
- Share complex technical information and feedback with others.
- Manage difficult and complex situations and complaints according to protocols.
- Conduct sensitive discussions as required, including obtaining meaningful informed decisions.
- Ensure accurate record keeping, producing reliable data, inputting, retrieving or reporting information within required governance processes and supervising others to do the same.
- Maintain confidentiality, adhering to the correct procedures for disclosure, and support others to do the same.
- Work in partnership with the healthcare science and wider healthcare team.
- Demonstrate leadership skills appropriate to own role, coordinating leadership activities and critically reflecting on the contribution that you provide personally and as a team leader.
- Delegate work to others in the team, following delegation, reporting and escalation protocols appropriate to own role.
- Contribute to a supportive, safe and effective environment in the workplace.
- Maintain health, safety and security practices in the workplace, including infection prevention and control, and support others to do the same.
- Undertake delegated risk assessments, disseminate findings and suggest changes or improvements.
- Participate in clinical and quality management processes.
- Undertake delegated clinical technical and quality audits in your area of work.
- Manage audit and participate in service improvement programmes.
- Share and suggest changes from the outcomes of audit or service improvement programmes.
- Apply research innovation, reflection and reasoning skills to support quality care and service improvements in your area of work.
- Contribute to research, innovation, service improvement or grant proposal writing as required by own role.
- Critically reflect on your technical and non-technical practice, keeping knowledge and skills updated and responding to appraisal or feedback.
- Work within your scope of practice as an autonomous practitioner using action plans developed from appraisal processes.
- Promote and support professional development and training of others.
- Practice in line with the legislation, standards of proficiency, codes of conduct and ethics that apply to healthcare science practitioners.
- Promote non-discriminatory, equitable and inclusive practices and ensure that each person is treated with dignity and respect.
- Promote the principles of a duty of candour, acting with integrity and in the best interest of individuals.
- Recognise and resolve problems and support others to do the same.
- Identify ways of promoting own good mental health and wellbeing and that of others.
- Independently analyse or interpret accurately clinical technical data.
- Be responsible and accountable for the safety and functioning of equipment evaluating and resolving issues.
- Analyse, present or explain technical results to others.
- Develop and review standard operating procedures (SOPs) and support others to participate in the process.
- Practice or support the provision of person-centred care.
- Promote and maintain the principles of a duty of care, safeguarding and protection, working with others to ensure individuals do not come to harm.
- Practice and support others to apply policy and protocols that relate to informed consent.
- Deliver or support the delivery of high quality clinical technical procedures as applicable to own role.
- Share complex technical information and feedback with others.
- Manage difficult and complex situations and complaints according to protocols.
- Conduct sensitive discussions as required, including obtaining meaningful informed decisions.
- Ensure accurate record keeping, producing reliable data, inputting, retrieving or reporting information within required governance processes and supervising others to do the same.
- Maintain confidentiality, adhering to the correct procedures for disclosure, and support others to do the same.
- Work in partnership with the healthcare science and wider healthcare team.
- Demonstrate leadership skills appropriate to own role, coordinating leadership activities and critically reflecting on the contribution that you provide personally and as a team leader.
- Delegate work to others in the team, following delegation, reporting and escalation protocols appropriate to own role.
- Contribute to a supportive, safe and effective environment in the workplace.
- Maintain health, safety and security practices in the workplace, including infection prevention and control, and support others to do the same.
- Undertake delegated risk assessments, disseminate findings and suggest changes or improvements.
- Participate in clinical and quality management processes.
- Undertake delegated clinical technical and quality audits in your area of work.
- Manage audit and participate in service improvement programmes.
- Share and suggest changes from the outcomes of audit or service improvement programmes.
- Apply research innovation, reflection and reasoning skills to support quality care and service improvements in your area of work.
- Contribute to research, innovation, service improvement or grant proposal writing as required by own role.
- Critically reflect on your technical and non-technical practice, keeping knowledge and skills updated and responding to appraisal or feedback.
- Work within your scope of practice as an autonomous practitioner using action plans developed from appraisal processes.
- Promote and support professional development and training of others.
Training schedule
This is a 3-year blended learning course, with three five-day blocks at UWE Bristol in each year for seminars, laboratory and practical sessions, plus tutorials and assessments.
The rest of the learning is work-based and requires a combination of directed and independent studies alongside hands-on experience.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4)
- Maths (grade C/4)
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Must meet the University entry requirements - alternative relevant qualifications are acceptable.
About this employer
Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year.
We are the busiest emergency ambulance service in the UK serving one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities. We provide emergency and urgent healthcare that is free to patients at the time they receive it.
We are the only NHS provider trust to serve the whole of London and the nine million people who live in, work in or visit the city. We cover an area of 620sq miles and have more than 8,000 people who work or volunteer for us – rising to 10,000 when including bank staff and students.
We answer around two million 999 calls a year and our crews attend more than 3000 emergencies a day. Our 24-hour 111 integrated urgent care services London answer around two million calls a year.
We play a leading role in integrating access to emergency and urgent care in the capital and are striving to ensure patients receive the right response, in the right place, at the right time.
Our main role is to respond to emergency 999 calls, providing medical care to patients across the capital, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Other services we offer include providing pre-arranged patient transport and finding hospital beds. Working with the police and the fire service, we are prepared for dealing with large-scale or major incidents in the capital.
https://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Permanent role upon completion of the apprenticeship.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000034137.
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Closes in 13 days (Monday 6 July 2026)
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