Senior Renal Technologist Manager

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Renal Technologist to join Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as a Senior Renal Technologist Manager.

Our Renal Technical Services department provides specialist technical support across nine hospital and satellite dialysis units, the West London Renal and Transplant Centre, and an expanding Home Haemodialysis service. We maintain a large fleet of dialysis equipment, reverse osmosis water treatment systems and associated infrastructure, ensuring safe, reliable and high-quality treatment for patients across the Trust.

This is an excellent time to join the service as we continue to invest in new dialysis technologies, water treatment infrastructure and service developments. Working closely with the Principal Renal Technologist and the senior technical team, you will support operational leadership, deliver complex technical projects and drive continuous service improvement across multiple sites.

The successful candidate will be an experienced Renal Technologist with excellent technical knowledge, leadership skills and a commitment to delivering high-quality patient care. You will lead defined areas of service responsibility, contribute to major equipment replacement and infrastructure projects, support quality and governance initiatives, and help shape the future development of Renal Technical Services across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

  • Support the operational management and delivery of Renal Technical Services across multiple hospital and satellite dialysis units.
  • Provide specialist technical expertise for the maintenance, repair, validation and performance monitoring of dialysis equipment, reverse osmosis water treatment systems and associated renal medical devices.
  • Lead defined areas of service responsibility, driving service development, quality improvement and technical governance in collaboration with the senior technical team.
  • Support the planning and delivery of equipment replacement programmes, new installations, service developments and capital projects.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, MHRA guidance, ISO standards, manufacturer recommendations and Trust policies.
  • Investigate and resolve technical incidents, equipment failures and water quality concerns, implementing effective corrective and preventative actions.
  • Build strong working relationships with clinical teams, Clinical Engineering, Estates, manufacturers and contractors to ensure safe and efficient service delivery.
  • Provide technical leadership, supervision and mentoring to junior renal technical staff, promoting professional development and high standards of practice.
  • Participate in the departmental on-call rota, providing specialist technical support during emergency situations affecting dialysis equipment and water treatment systems.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree, in an appropriate engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
  • Registered IPEM Clinical Technologist
  • In-depth practical, diploma-level postgraduate experience and specialist knowledge of a broad range of processes relating to Equipment Management, clinical governance or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Diploma in Renal technology

Experience

Essential

  • Three years specialist experience as a renal technologist
  • Previous managerial /supervisor experience with responsibilities for others in all aspects of the management of clinical equipment
  • Experience of working under a Quality Management System.
  • Registered with the Association of Renal Technologists
  • Extensive knowledge of test procedures used to verify safety and performance of a wide range of medical equipment.

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential

  • Must be able to lead a team and work as part of the team.
  • Sound understanding of scientific and engineering technologies used in medical equipment. E.g. electrical safety
  • Must have a full UK driving licence
  • Ability to diagnose complex faults
  • Good oral and written communications.
  • Good listening skills
  • Be able to physically lift heavy equipment, carry out repetitive equipment testing and work in awkward positions several times each day.
  • Dexterity, co-ordination and sensory skills for use of precision tools, where high standard of accuracy is needed to prevent harm to self or patients
  • Ability to make fine alterations to equipment controls to adjust more than one reading. Simultaneously.
  • Ability to perform physically accurate, fine work in confined and obscured spaces.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Closing Date: 16 August 2026

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