Medical Engineering Team Manager | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	23 Mehefin 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	23 Gorffennaf 2025
Lleoliad:	317 Trustwide, NE7 7DN
Cwmni:	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7290723/317-2024-50-11-DR-D

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PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY

There is an requirement for an enthusiastic person to join the Trust’s Medical Engineering team. The post-holder will be involved in the day-to-day management of staff and resources employed to maintain a wide range of medical/renal/laboratory/CCTV equipment as well as making a practical contribution to the routine maintenance, calibration and repair of over 30,000 medical devices including patient monitoring, ventilators and pathology equipment used within a modern Hospital environment.

Also involved in large and exciting site and service developments, the post holder will be an integral part of design teams modernising and expanding the Trust's Medical Equipment services.

Applicants should be qualified to degree level or equivalent in an electronic related discipline and will be able to demonstrate significant relevant experience at a supervisory/senior level in a medical electronics related field. A full driving licence is required, as the post-holder will participate in an out of hour’s on-call rota.

You will need to be a team player, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to use your own initiative when required.
• Interview Date: Friday 25 July 2025
• 37 hours 30 minutes /week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE
• Planning, co-ordinating, implementing and delivering a programme of planned maintenance including personal responsibility for the maintenance of specialist equipment or departments.
• Planning and allocating the workload of reactive maintenance of medical devices, sometimes with immediate responses required.
• Planning asset audits to ensure equipment is operating at the required software and hardware levels.
• Managing and lead a team of highly skilled Medical Engineering Technicians.
• Implement necessary remedial actions recommended in Department of Health Safety Alert Bulletins or manufacturer’s alerts, modification or software updates.
• Liaise with medical, technical, supplies department, risk management staff and equipment manufacturers regarding technical information including investigating and reporting of adverse incidents and equipment defects and failures to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
• Have a proactive approach in order to help drive continuous improvement.

Please refer to NHS jobs to see other vacancies across our Medical Engineering Department.

Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:

• Freeman Hospital

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)

• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)

• Newcastle Dental Hospital

• Newcastle Fertility Centre

• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria

• Northern Genetics Service

• Cramlington Manor Walks

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle HospitalsandNewcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Part of the Leadership and Management Team within Medical Engineering, the Team Manager’s role is to support the management of the EME/Dialysis/Loan Library/Instrument Curator departments and take full responsibility in the absence of the Medical Engineering Service Manager and carry out daily management responsibilities.
• The Medical Engineering Team Manager is responsible for the maintenance and repair of a broad spectrum of medical electronic devices, which are highly specialised, complex and technologically advanced requiring an in-depth knowledge of current engineering techniques.
• Plan, manage and carry out planned maintenance, repair and servicing of specialist medical equipment and acceptance test new equipment.
• Train medical and technical staff in the use of medical devices.
• Take a lead role in major installations.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.


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