SIAS
Level 3
QN: 610/6488/9
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SIAS Level 3 Extended Diploma for Healthcare Estates Engineering Technicians
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by SIAS. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 493 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 3
Awarding Body
SIAS
Syllabus Units
15 Units
Guided Hours
493 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Basic principles of healthcare estates maintenance
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand installation, commissioning and decommissioning practices and techniques used within healthcare engineering.2.
- Understand basic principles of engineering maintenance.3.
- Understand how to select
- use and maintain machinery, tools and equipment required to perform engineering maintenance tasks.4.
- Understand the different types of documentation and their requirements in the engineering healthcare sector.
2
Carry out healthcare engineering activities
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to complete commissioning checks of systems.2.
- Be able to assemble
- assess and repair equipment and components.3.
- Be able to deal with equipment and components no longer required.4.
- Be able to produce basic parts, spares or components used in healthcare engineering.5.
- Be able to restore the work area on completion of a healthcare engineering activity.6.
- Be able to support continuous improvement in healthcare engineering.7.
- Be able to take personal responsibility within the Healthcare Estates Technician role.8.
- Be able to complete engineering tasks within a clinical environment.
3
Communication and teamwork within healthcare estates engineering
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand communication and team
- work within the workplace.2.
- Understand the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace.3.
- Understand the use of information technology within healthcare estates.
4
Communication, Teamwork, and Knowledge Sharing in Healthcare Estates
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand training, mentoring and coaching techniques within the healthcare estates context.2.
- Be able to communicate effectively within healthcare estates.3.
- Be able to work as part of a team within healthcare estates.
5
Healthcare engineering and clinical environment management
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand health and safety requirements and the limits of the technician role in healthcare estates.2.
- Understand the principles of working in a clinical environment.3.
- Understand data protection and information governance as it applies to healthcare engineering.4.
- Understand the impact of financial constraints and service level agreements on healthcare engineering.5.
- Understand estates engineering industry regulations and guidelines.6.
- Understand engineering standards and regulations.7.
- Understand key healthcare engineering industry regulations and guidelines.
6
Implement regulatory and procedural requirements within healthcare engineering
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to use healthcare engineering related information and procedures to carry out tasks.2.
- Be able to manage stock and supplies.3.
- Be able to produce healthcare engineering reports.4.
- Be able to work safely in healthcare engineering.5.
- Be able to comply with environmental and sustainability requirements in healthcare engineering.
7
Plan, schedule and record healthcare engineering activities
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how healthcare engineering activities are organised.2.
- Be able to plan and schedule own and others’ work in healthcare engineering.3.
- Be able to manage healthcare engineering data.4.
- Be able to demonstrate adaptability in the Healthcare Estates Technician role.
8
Principles of health, safety, and the environment within healthcare estates engineering
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand fundamental health and safety regulations, standards and guidance relevant to healthcare estates engineering.2.
- Understand environmental regulations and requirements within healthcare estates engineering.
9
Select and maintain tools and equipment within healthcare engineering
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to test tools, equipment and systems within the healthcare engineering environment.2.
- Be able to select and safely use hand tools, specialist tools and instruments in healthcare engineering tasks.3.
- Be able to maintain and store tools and equipment used in healthcare engineering tasks.4.
- Be able to decontaminate healthcare equipment.
10
Understand Engineering Maintenance Processes and Documentation for Healthcare Settings
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how manufacturers’ instructions and warranties support the safety, and use of, engineering equipment.2.
- Understand statutory and best practice certificates and their role in healthcare engineering compliance.3.
- Understand the requirements for documentation and record-keeping in healthcare engineering.4.
- Know how to interpret engineering representations, drawings, and graphical information for healthcare applications.5.
- Understand how Health Technical Memorandums are used in healthcare estates engineering.
11
Understand engineering principles including mechanical, electrical and mechatronics
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand mathematical and scientific principles relevant to healthcare engineering.2.
- Understand mechanical principles relevant to healthcare engineering.3.
- Understand the principles of mechatronics within healthcare engineering.
- Understand electrical and electronic principles relevant to healthcare engineering.5.
- Understand control systems principles relevant to healthcare engineering.6.
- Understand energy consumption and usage profiling.
12
Understand estates systems and supplies (water, gas, and electrical)
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand installation, commissioning practices and techniques in healthcare engineering.2.
- Understand decommissioning practices and techniques in healthcare engineering.3.
- Understand maintenance practices and techniques used within engineering.4.
- Understand fault-finding and problem-solving techniques in healthcare engineering.5.
- Understand common causes of faults, including component and system failures relevant in healthcare engineering.6.
- Understand repair practices and techniques.7.
- Understand the purpose, operation, and interconnections of systems within healthcare estates and their impact on service continuity.8.
- Understand energy infrastructure for healthcare estates and system resilience.
13
Understand machinery, tools and equipment and materials used in healthcare engineering
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the purpose, safe use and maintenance of machinery, tools, and equipment in healthcare engineering.2.
- Understand engineering materials used in the healthcare sector.3.
- Understand the requirements for calibrated equipment.4.
- Understand stock and services considerations in healthcare engineering.
14
Understand quality assurance and continuous improvement in engineering maintenance
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand quality assurance principles and practice relevant to healthcare engineering.2.
- Understand continuous improvement principles and practices used in healthcare engineering.
15
Understand the healthcare engineering sector
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the engineering function in the healthcare sector.2.
- Understand technological development and innovation in the healthcare engineering sector.3.
- Understand engineering standards, regulations, statutory certificates, and Standard Operating Procedures relevant to the healthcare engineering sector.4.
- Understand healthcare engineering industry regulations and guidelines.5.
- Understand the implications of working in a clinical environment.
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 610/6488/9
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- SIAS
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Oct 2025