Clinical Engineering Team Lead North Manchester

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 permanent 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 have an initial fixed base at North Manchester General Hospital but will be expected to rotate within our other Trust and Community sites.

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• Lead within a particular specialization, potentially across multiple Trust Hospital sites, and support Quality Management initiatives; provide cover for other Team Lead posts in the MEAM Department at Oxford Road, Wythenshawe, Trafford or North Manchester.
  
• Lead day-to-day duties: analyse and diagnose faults in complex patient-critical electro-mechanical equipment; organize and deliver service schedules; lead a team to perform maintenance tasks from routine to reactive maintenance on complex medical devices in hospital environments.
  
• Help lead procurement projects for specialist medical devices; identify training needs of the team; ensure systems are in place for maintaining and repairing devices as required.
  
• Develop new working practices and techniques to improve team efficiency as monitored by key performance indicators.
  

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• Highly specialist knowledge of medical engineering and experience of electro-medical devices through their lifecycle from acceptance to disposal to master’s equivalent.
  
• Detailed knowledge of computer systems, including Microsoft Office for spreadsheets and presentations; experience with equipment management systems for controlling the equipment lifecycle and history.
  
• Note: Previous applicants need not apply.
  

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of over £3bn. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. We’ve brought together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, championing collaborative working and transformation, and we encourage our 30,000 workforce to pursue ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate, offering significant opportunities. We’ve created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive, our Electronic Patient Record system launched in September 2022. We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing a robust infrastructure to support high-quality research programs. We’re also pursuing our Green Plan to help MFT play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting health and wellbeing, and shaping the future of our organisation together.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Joe Emmerson, Job title: Head of Clinical Engineering, MFT, Email: , Telephone:

Terry Timmons
Deputy Head of Clinical Engineering, MFT