Medical and Dental Servicing Section Technician

This job sits within the Healthcare & Medical Profession and is a Rating Qualified role. As an Medical Assistant Medical and Dental Servicing Technician (MA MDSS) in the Royal Navy, you’ll be ensuring the maintenance of all crucial equipment required by operational medical teams around the world. From day one, you’ll be part of a fast paced, highly qualified team maintaining vital equipment to deploy at short notice, whilst developing skills that will stay with you for life. You’ll either be based ashore, working within the maritime deployed hospital group or with the commando logistics regiment ensuring that all high readiness teams can deploy at less than 48-hour readiness, to respond to situations all over the world, and using your expertise where it’s needed most. You’ll also deploy around the world to wherever our equipment is, ensuring its serviceability to the medical teams afloat. 

As soon as you’ve completed your professional training, you’ll have the opportunity to gain experience in a wide range of disciplines. When defects occur, you will have the skills to diagnose and repair complex problems, often in challenging situations. Being part of an MDSS team is engineering at its most exhilarating. Throughout your career you’ll tackle some of the most challenging environments imaginable, getting the accelerated development you want, and the pay and benefits package you deserve.

• When defects occur, you will have the skills to diagnose and repair complex problems, often in challenging situations.
• Have the opportunity to gain experience in a wide range of disciplines
• Tackle some of the most challenging environments imaginable
• Be part of a world-class medical service that’s respected far beyond the Armed Forces

• Starting salary of at least £41,700 after professional training as an MA MDSS Tech, rising to over of £61,000 as your career progresses
• Be part of a world-class medical service
• Excellent rates of pay
• Serve in a wide variety of unique and challenging environments
• Six weeks’ paid holiday plus Bank Holidays 

Qualifications you'll gain

• Continued specialist training as your career progresses
• Study for further A levels, NVQs or even a degree, partially paid for by us
• An opportunity to study further at Degree level 6 and Masters level 7 to top up your professional portfolio

Skills you'll develop

• Training will be a constant feature of your time with us. We’ll help you earn further qualifications and gain specialist skills
• As well as helping you develop your Royal Navy career, everything you achieve will be recognised and valued by a future civilian employer

• You need to be aged 17.5 - 39 
• NVQ Level 3 in Engineering (Electronics) 
• You must be a British or Irish National, a Commonwealth Citizen or a Dual National. Dual Nationality restrictions apply
• A Body Mass Index (BMI) between 18 and 28
• You must pass the Naval Swimming Test
  
   

• Technical thinkers
• Team players
• An adventurous spirit
• Positivity in the face of adversity
• A passion for working with the latest equipment and technology