Clinical Engineering Team Lead North Manchester | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

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Clinical Engineering Team Lead North Manchester | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Employer:

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Manchester, M8 5RB

Pay:

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

Yes

Closing Date:

05/03/2026

About this job

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.

All Team Leaders will be expected to lead within a particular specialization, 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. Please read and understand fully the Job Description and the Person Specification before submitting your application in order to assess fully if you have the required skills to fulfill the essential criteria.

If you have applied for the role recently and not been invited to interview then it is unlikely your application will be processes beyond the shortlisting stage.

Your day to day duties will include but may not be limited to: Using your highly developed engineering skills to analyse and diagnose faults in a wide range of complex patient-critical electro-mechanical equipment Organising 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.

To 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.

To develop new working practices and techniques to improve team efficiency as monitored by key performance indicators

The ideal candidate will: Have a 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, using Microsoft office applications 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 Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts.

We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.

We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also 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 which launched in September 2022. We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes.

What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

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

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.

So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification.

This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of 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.

If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcingmft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Feb 2026

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