Clinical Engineering Team Lead - North Manchester

Clinical Engineering Team Lead - North Manchester

Closing date: 13 April 2026

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 develop leadership skills while leading an engineering team. You'll be responsible for prioritising workloads while providing service and technical support to a wide range of medical devices in a hospital environment. As a highly experienced medical or clinical engineer, experience undertaking repairs and maintenance activities on medical devices is a requirement.

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

All Team Leaders will lead within a particular specialization, possibly across multiple Trust Hospital sites, and we are looking to increase resilience within the Team for someone with an interest in leading on Quality Management and providing cover for other Team Lead posts in the MEAM Department at Oxford Road, Wythenshawe, Trafford or North Manchester.

Main duties of the job

• Use highly developed engineering skills to analyse and diagnose faults in a wide range of complex patient critical electro mechanical equipment.
• Organise and deliver service schedules, leading a team to perform maintenance tasks ranging from routine maintenance 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 systems are in place for devices to be maintained and repaired as required.
• Develop new working practices and techniques to improve team efficiency as monitored by key performance indicators.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Registered with an appropriate Professional Body, or Institution.

Experience

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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 per annum, pro rata