Date posted: 20 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £58,133 to £65,261 a year (pa inclusive)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 290-MIC-2173
Job locations: Charing Cross Hospital, London, W6 8RF, United Kingdom

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.

About us
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainabilityClimate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.

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.

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.