Clinical Engineering Team Lead North Manchester

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The Clinical Engineering Department is looking to appoint a Clinical Engineering Team Lead to support services within Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. This permanent position offers development opportunities to grow leadership skills while leading an engineering team. You will prioritize workloads and provide service and technical support to a wide range of medical devices in a hospital environment. The role requires a highly experienced medical or clinical engineer with repairs and maintenance experience on medical devices.

The post holder will have an initial fixed base at North Manchester General Hospital but is expected to rotate across other Trust and Community sites. Team Leaders will lead a particular specialization across multiple sites, and we look for someone interested in Quality Management and covering other Team Lead posts in the MEAM Department.

Your day-to-day duties will include but may not be limited to:

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• Using your highly developed engineering skills to analyse and diagnose faults in a wide range of complex patient‑critical electro‑mechanical equipment
  
• Organizing and delivering service schedules, leading a team to perform maintenance tasks ranging from routine maintenance to reactive maintenance on a range of complex medical devices in the hospital environments
  
• Helping lead procurement projects for specialist medical devices
  
• Identifying training needs of the team and ensuring systems are in place for devices to be maintained and repaired as required
  
• Developing 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 with experience of electro‑medical devices through their lifecycle from acceptance to disposal (Master’s equivalent)
  
• Detailed knowledge of computer systems, using Microsoft Office for spreadsheets and presentations
  
• Detailed knowledge using equipment management systems for controlling the equipment lifecycle and history
  

Previous applicants need not apply

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, with a turnover of over £3 bn and an integrated health & social care system for 1 million patients. It brings together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, championing collaborative working and transformation. The Trust is digitally enabled, agile, and committed to research, innovation and sustainability.

For further details or informal visits contact:

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• Name: Joe Emmerson
  Job title: Head of Clinical Engineering, MFT
  Email:
  Telephone: 0161 276 4825
  
• Deputy Head of Clinical Engineering, MFT: Terry Timmons
  Telephone: 0161 701 2810