Clinical Engineering Team Lead

The Clinical Engineering Department is looking to appoint a Clinical Engineering Team Lead to support the services provided within Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. This is a part‑time position with development opportunities to allow the successful candidate to develop leadership skills, while leading an engineering team. You will be responsible for prioritising workloads, while providing service and technical support to a wide range of medical devices within a hospital environment. As a highly experienced medical or clinical engineer, experience of undertaking repairs and maintenance activities on medical devices would be a requirement of this post.

The post holder will be expected to work within our other Trust and Community sites. All Team Leaders will be expected to lead within a particular specialisation, which could be across multiple Trust Hospital sites, and we are looking to increase our resilience within the Team for someone with an interest at leading on Quality Management as well as providing cover for the other Team Lead posts in the MEAM Department at Oxford Road, Wythenshawe, Trafford or North Manchester.

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• Analyse and diagnose faults in a wide range of complex patient‑critical electro‑mechanical equipment using highly developed engineering skills.
  
• Organise and deliver service schedules, leading a team to perform maintenance tasks ranging from routine to reactive maintenance on a range of complex medical devices in hospital environments.
  
• Help lead procurement projects for specialist medical devices.
  
• Identify training needs of the team and ensure that systems are in place for ensuring devices are maintained and repaired as required.
  
• Develop new working practices and techniques to improve team efficiency as monitored by key performance indicators.
  

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• Have a highly specialist knowledge of medical engineering and experience of electro‑medical devices through their life‑cycle from acceptance to disposal to master’s equivalent.
  
• Have detailed knowledge of computer systems, using Microsoft Office applications for spreadsheets and presentations.
  
• Have detailed knowledge of equipment management systems for controlling the equipment life‑cycle and history.
  

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is the largest provider of specialist services, and our Oxford Road Campus in Manchester, the largest health academic campus in Europe. We deliver care to over 1 million patients & users each year through our 10 hospitals and extensive community services. Our 30,000 plus strong workforce is central to our success and innovation. Join us and help shape the future of our Trust – make a real difference to our teams, our services, and our communities, and fundamentally our patients.

Date posted: 25 November 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year pro‑rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part‑time

Reference number: 349‑EST‑7569923‑RL4

Job locations: ORC, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

Qualifications (Essential)

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• Professional Electronics knowledge through B Eng or equivalent, plus specialist knowledge.
  
• Specialist knowledge acquired through courses & experience to master's level or equivalent.
  
• Degree or Masters equivalent level of knowledge. HNC / HTEC / HND / Foundation Degree in electronics, plus specialist knowledge.
  

Qualifications (Desirable)

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• Registered with an appropriate Professional Body, or Institution.
  
• Management Qualification – e.g., I‑L.M. 3/5.
  

Experience (Essential)

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• Servicing – experienced in maintaining a broad range of medical equipment.
  
• Evidence of competency.
  
• Specialist knowledge gained through postgraduate diploma or specialist training and experience.
  
• Experience at a supervisory level of servicing a wide range of medical equipment.
  
• Experience of contract management.
  
• Knowledge of medical device management standards.
  
• Experience of staff management and knowledge of NHS structures and organisation.
  

Experience (Desirable)

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• Significant experience in a Medical Equipment Service environment with technical and people management experience.
  

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you.

Employer name: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address: ORC, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL

Employer's website: https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/