AIM Qualifications · RQF Level 3
AIM Qualifications Level 3 NVQ Extended Diploma in Engineering Maintenance (Servicing Medical Equipment)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits199
- Guided learning532 hours
- Units in this qualification30
Awarded by AIM Qualifications · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units AIM Qualifications registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Carrying Out Fault Diagnosis on Medical EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the Health and Safety aspects of carrying out fault diagnosis including reference to legislation, guidance and organisation policies and procedures
- Know how and where to gather evidence when investigating a reported fault on a medical device
- Prevent damage to medical devices when carrying out fault diagnosis
- Understand the procedure to be undertaken when the fault diagnosis is complete
- Plan to complete the fault diagnosis on medical equipment
- Ensure that fault diagnosis is carried out safely
- Identify faults using various sources of
Carrying Out Fault Diagnosis on Medical EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the skills required for fault diagnosis on medical equipment.
Carrying Out Scheduled Servicing on Medical EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely when testing medical equipment
- Prepare for testing medical equipment
- Understand the checking procedures before carrying out scheduled servicing on a medical device
- Know the processes to follow for the testing of medical equipment
- Plan to carry out scheduled servicing on a medical device
- Work safely when carrying out a scheduled service on a medical device
- Demonstrate how to carry out scheduled servicing on a medical device
- Follow procedures when the scheduled servicing of the medical device is complete
Carrying Out Scheduled Servicing on Medical EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Perform scheduled servicing tasks on medical equipment.
Employee Rights and ResponsibilitiesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand employee rights and workplace responsibilities.
General Maintenance Engineering ApplicationsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and apply general maintenance techniques in engineering settings.
General maintenance engineering applicationsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Describe how to work safely at all times, complying with health and safety legislation, regulations and other relevant guidelines
- Explain how to obtain all the information you need for the safe removal and replacement of the equipment components
- Explain how to apply appropriate fault finding techniques, tools and aids to locate the faults
- Explain the appropriate methods and techniques to remove and replace the required components
- Explain how to deal promptly and effectively with problems within your control.
- Describe the tasks that need completing following a maintenance activity
- Work sa
Maintaining Electrical equipment/systemsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to work safely at all times, complying with health and safety legislation, regulations and other relevant guidelines
- Identify all the information you need for the safe removal and replacement of the equipment/system components
- Describe the appropriate tools used for maintaining electrical equipment/systems
- Understand how to plan for maintenance activities
- Describe appropriate maintenance diagnostic techniques and procedures
- Understand the correct procedures for completing maintenance activities
- Plan the maintenance activities before you start them
- Apply appropriate mainte
Maintaining Electronic Equipment/SystemsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure the effective maintenance of electronic equipment.
Maintaining electronic equipment/systemsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Describe how to work safely at all times
- Explain how to plan for your maintenance activity
- Prepare the appropriate tools and equipment for testing
- Explain how to test the maintained equipment, in accordance with the test schedule/defined test procedures
- Explain the appropriate methods and techniques to remove and replace the required components
- Explain how to deal promptly and effectively with problems.
- Describe the tasks to be completed once the maintenance activity has been accomplished.
- Work safely at all times, complying with health and safety legislation, regulations an
Mathematics for Engineering TechniciansReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use the international system of units (SI) and convert between SI and Imperial measures.
- Use algebraic methods.
- Use trigonometric methods and standard formula to determine area.
- Use statistical methods to analyse and present data.
- Use elementary calculus techniques.
Mathematics for Engineering TechniciansReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Apply mathematical principles relevant to engineering tasks.
Servicing Anaesthetic & Ventilation EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislation, guidance and organisational policies and procedures relating to servicing Anaesthetic & Ventilation Equipment
- Know the physiology associated with anaesthetic and ventilation equipment and risks to the patient
- Prepare for a servicing Anaesthetic & Ventilation Equipment activity
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks before undertaking servicing Anaesthetic & Ventilation Equipment activities
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks during the service and repair of Anaesthetic & Ventilation Equipment activities
- Know the process and proced
Servicing Anaesthetic and Ventilation EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out servicing of anaesthetic and ventilation equipment.
Servicing Cardiovascular EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislation, guidance and organisational policies and procedures relating to servicing Cardiovascular equipment,
- Know the physiology associated with Cardiovascular equipment and risks to the patient.,
- Prepare for servicing Cardiovascular Equipment,
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks before undertaking servicing Cardiovascular equipment activities.,
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks to be carried out during the service and repair of Cardiovascular equipment activities.,
- Know the process and procedures when servicing Cardiovas
Servicing Cardiovascular EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out servicing tasks on cardiovascular equipment.
Servicing Dental EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislation, guidance and organisational policies and procedures relating to servicing dental equipment
- Prepare for a servicing dental equipment activity
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks before undertaking servicing Dental equipment activities
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks during the service and repair of dental equipment activities
- Understand the process and procedure when the servicing dental equipment activity is complete
- Prepare for the servicing or repair of dental equipment
- Carry out servicing or repair
Servicing Dental EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Service dental equipment according to specified protocols.
Servicing Laboratory EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislation, guidance and organisational policies and procedures relating to servicing Labouratory equipment
- Describe how to prepare for a servicing Labouratory Equipment activity
- Describe the procedures, methods and necessary checks before undertaking servicing Labouratory equipment activities
- Describe the procedures, methods and necessary checks during the service and repair of Labouratory equipment activities
- Describe the process and procedure when the servicing Labouratory equipment activity is complete
- Prepare for the servicing or repair of Labouratory equipment
- Carry out servici
Servicing Laboratory EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Effectively service laboratory equipment to maintain performance standards.
Servicing Mechanical & Electromechanical Assistive Technology EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislation, guidance and organisational policies and procedures relating to servicing Mechanical & Electromechanical Assistive Technology Equipment.
- Know the physiology associated with mechanical and assistive mechanical technology equipment and risks to the patient.
- Prepare for a servicing Mechanical & Electromechanical Assistive Technology Equipment activity
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks before undertaking servicing Mechanical & Electromechanical Assistive Technology Equipment activities.
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks during t
Servicing Mechanical and Electromechanical Assistive Technology EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure the functionality of assistive technology equipment through proper servicing.
Servicing Medical Imaging EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislation, guidance and organisational policies and procedures relating to servicing Medical Imaging equipment
- Know the physiology associated with medical imaging equipment and risks to the patient
- Understand how to prepare for a servicing Medical Imaging Equipment activity
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks before undertaking servicing Medical Imaging equipment activities
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks during the service and repair of Medical Imaging equipment activities
- Know the processess and procedures when the servicing Medical Imaging equ
Servicing Medical Imaging EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct routine servicing on medical imaging equipment.
Servicing Medical Therapeutic EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislation, guidance and organisational policies and procedures relating to servicing Medical Therapeutic equipment
- Know the physiology associated with medical therapeutic equipment and risks to the patient
- Prepare for a servicing Medical Therapeutic Equipment activity
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks before undertaking servicing Medical Therapeutic equipment activities
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks during the service and repair of Medical Therapeutic equipment activities
- Know the process and procedure when the servicing Medical T
Servicing Medical Therapeutic EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Service medical therapeutic devices following relevant protocols.
Servicing Operating Theatre and Surgical EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislation, guidance and organisational policies and procedures relating to servicing Operating Theatre and Surgical equipment
- Know the physiology associated with operating theatre and surgical equipment and risks to the patient
- Prepare for a servicing Operating Theatre and Surgical Equipment activity
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks to be taken before undertaking servicing Operating Theatre and Surgical equipment activities
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks during the service and repair of Operating Theatre and Surgical equipment acti
Servicing Operating Theatre and Surgical EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Effectively service surgical and operating theatre equipment.
Servicing Physiological Monitoring & Infusion EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislation, guidance and organisational policies and procedures relating to servicing physiological monitoring and infusion equipment.
- Know the physiology associated with physiological and infusion equipment and risks to the patient.
- Prepare for a servicing physiological monitoring and infusion equipment activity
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks before undertaking servicing Physiological monitoring and infusion equipment activities.
- Know the procedures, methods and necessary checks during the service and repair of physiological monitoring and infusion
Servicing Physiological Monitoring and Infusion EquipmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Effectively service physiological monitoring equipment.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
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Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Arrange for the performance of CCTV systems to be maintained
- Carry out maintenance of ionising radiation measurement instrumentation
- Carrying out fault diagnosis on medical equipment
- Carrying out scheduled servicing activities on assistive technology systems and equipment
- Carrying out scheduled servicing on medical equipment
- Maintain Forecourt Equipment at Petrol Filling Stations
- Maintain electrical systems and equipment at Petrol Filling Stations
- Maintain the imaging system
Where this can lead
Maintenance Technician
Your career here is what you make it. We'll give you the tools, the training, and the opportunities; you bring the drive and the willingness to learn. The sky's the limit if you're prepared to put in the work.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for AIM Qualifications Level 3 NVQ Extended Diploma in Engineering Maintenance (Servicing Medical Equipment)
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by AIM Qualifications.
- Carrying Out Fault Diagnosis on Medical Equipment
- Carrying Out Scheduled Servicing on Medical Equipment
- Employee Rights and Responsibilities
- General maintenance engineering applications
- Maintaining Electrical equipment/systems
- Maintaining electronic equipment/systems
and 13 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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