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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 part‑time 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 is a requirement of this post.

The post holder will be expected to work within other Trust and Community sites.

All Team Leaders will be expected to lead within a particular specialisation, which could be across multiple Trust Hospital sites, and we are looking to increase our resilience within the Team for someone with an interest in 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 hospital environments
• Helping to lead procurement projects for specialist medical devices; identifying training needs of the team and ensuring that systems are in place for maintaining and repairing devices as required
• Developing new working practices and techniques to improve team efficiency as monitored by key performance indicators

• Have highly specialist knowledge of medical engineering and experience of electro‑medical devices through their lifecycle from acceptance to disposal to master’s equivalent
• Have detailed knowledge of computer systems, using Microsoft Office applications for spreadsheets and presentations, and detailed knowledge of equipment management systems for controlling the equipment lifecycle and history

Previous applicants need not apply.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is the largest provider of specialist services, and our Oxford Road Campus in Manchester is the largest health academic campus in Europe – a great place to shape and develop your leadership career.

MFT delivers care to over 1 million patients and users each year through 10 hospitals and extensive community services. Our workforce of over 30 000 supports our success and innovation.

You will play a pivotal part in supporting our operational excellence and strategic ambitions, working collaboratively with clinical and non‑clinical teams, driving improvements that enhance patient experience, staff wellbeing and service efficiency across the Trust.

MFT offers a dynamic, inclusive environment where your leadership, ideas and expertise are valued. You’ll have access to professional development, digital tools and opportunities to contribute to transformational projects.

We are committed to supporting your growth and wellbeing, recognising the vital role you play in our organisation’s success.

Join us and help shape the future of our Trust—make a real difference to our teams, services and communities, and ultimately to our patients.

We ask all applicants to ensure that their job applications reflect their own experiences, skills and motivations. While AI tools can support spelling, grammar or formatting, the content of your application—especially personal statements and responses to role‑specific questions—is written by you. This helps us know the real you and keeps the recruitment process fair.

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce. We encourage all individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation to apply for this post.

If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, please contact the manager named below.

This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Dec 2025.