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

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.

• 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.

• 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.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust in England with a turnover of over £3bn and 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.

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. 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.

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

We’re looking forward to hearing from you! This advert closes on Monday 17 Nov 2025.