Job summary
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 .
Main duties of the job
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 ***
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll 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 youll 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 at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll 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 youll 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 at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Registered with an appropriate Professional Body, or Institution
- Management Qualification - eg I.L.M. 3/5
Experience
Essential
- Servicing - experienced in maintaining a broad range of medical equipment
- Evidence of competency
- Specialist knowledge gained through post graduate 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
Desirable
- Significant experience in a Medical Equipment Service environment with technical and people management experience
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Registered with an appropriate Professional Body, or Institution
- Management Qualification - eg I.L.M. 3/5
Experience
Essential
- Servicing - experienced in maintaining a broad range of medical equipment
- Evidence of competency
- Specialist knowledge gained through post graduate 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
Desirable
- 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 as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
