The hospital engineer’s functions encompass engineering, architecture, bio-medical equipment, information technology and all other technical or scientific fields coming within the scope of the missions of public health establishments.
Job adaptation training
Duration: 28 days
The training provided by the EHESP evolves with the profession for the purposes of efficiency, risk management, continuous technical improvement, and sustainable development. It is organised into 7 sequential themes, with the objective of:
- Facilitating better understanding of the operation of the hospital and its environment
- Develop specific technical fields
- Develop hospital management practices
The training programme is based around the using and developing the hospital engineer’s knowledge and know-how from the overall approach to the hospital setting to dealing with every-day professional and management related situations:
- The hospital within its environment
- Hospital practice: risk management and reliability
- Finances and management tools
- Public procurement policies and methods
- Hospital practice: operation and management of technical and medical-technical hospital projects
- Human resources management
- Day-to-day negotiations.
Training programme in detail
Module 1: The hospital within its environment
Health system reform
Funding of health expenditure
Environmental health
Regulatory instruments (SROS – Regional Health Organisation Plans)
Missions and organisation of public health establishments
Role of doctor and head of department
Rights of patients
Module 2: Hospital practice: risk management and reliability
Risk management as it applies to the hospital sector: vigilances, security (fire safety, electrical safety etc.)
Risk management as it relates to hospital operation and the environment (nosocomial infection, liquid and gaseous effluent)
Risk situations and the responsibility of the hospital engineer
Module 3: Finances and management tools
Hospital information system
The PMSI (Computerised medical data recording system)
Financial accounting
Hospital budgetary and financial management
Introduction to management control and management charts
Module 4: Public procurement policies and methods
Economic and strategic aspects of procurement
Procurement at the most competitive rates within a legally secure framework
Toolbox: limits, procedures, advertising
Room for manoeuvre: MAPA (Marchés à Procédure Adaptée – adapted procedure), negotiation, framework agreement
Legal strength of the contract
Module 5: Hospital practice: operation and management of technical and medical-technical hospital projects
Management of change in the hospital sector
Hospital engineering project management: methodology and resources, technical and operational approach (case study)
Module 6: Human resources management
Routine and non routine human resources management
Manpower and skills planning
Directory of jobs
Grading evaluation
Representations of hospital engineering and its specialisations
Status of technical staff and workers: recruitment, advancement, promotion
Module 7: Day-to-day negotiations (situations and role playing)
Major issues in day-to-day negotiations in public health establishments:
- Communication (tools and techniques)
- Dealing with job-related and management-related situations of an individual (time management, stress management, conducting meetings) and collective (employer-employee relations, management of teams) nature.
The job
The hospital engineer’s functions encompass engineering, architecture, bio-medical equipment, information technology and all other technical or scientific field coming within the scope of the missions of public health establishments.
Within his or her area of expertise, the hospital engineer coordinates activities to ensure achievement of objectives set by the director of the establishment:
- Carries out preliminary studies and finalises projects
- Where responsible for the completion of projects he or she is also responsible for preparing and managing them
- Assists with the selection, installation and setting up of equipment
- Maintenance of equipment and buildings
- Management of staff under his or her authority
To find out more about the job and eligibility criteria for the competitive examinations
Visit the website of the Ministry of Health, Youth and Sport
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