Deputy Research and IRMER Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Leadership

Be a role model and leader to all staff within their specialities and across the wider Care Group, particularly for the Nursing and AHP profession. They will demonstrate a values led attitude, a coaching style of leadership and a high level of skill in giving and receiving constructive feedback.Be a visible Nurse/AHP leader, encouraging staff to contribute to implementation plans, ensuring a high quality and efficient approach to service delivery, including remaining calm, controlled and solution focused in times of difficulty

Lead by example to inspire, motivate, and encourage others using a coaching style of leadership ensuring that others have clear direction, support, accountability and responsibility to deliver.Support implementation of appraisal and development plans for all Nursing/AHP colleagues within your designated team, ensuring a coaching style of leadership and development of potential at every level is at the heart of everyday communications, creating a culture where giving and receiving constructive feedback is embedded.

Develop opportunities for staff engagement within team(s) ensuring that unnecessary blocks to processes and pathways are removed.Use staff engagement as a driver for service improvement within the area, ensuring that actions are followed through in a structured way.

Implementing effective communication strategies and techniques to promote involvement, effective decision making and a common sense of purpose, including supporting staff and stakeholder engagement at the start of planned organisational change.

Forming an essential two way communications link between the Nursing/AHP profession and other staff in the area, ensuring that key messages, team brief etc. are shared and discussed.

Supporting the Head of Nursing/ AHPs to formulate creative vision and clinical strategy for the area, offering ideas which reflect the contribution of the Nursing/AHP profession, health needs of the local population, and contribute to the annual business, workforce and financial planning process.

Clinical Governance / Quality

Implementing and monitoring of appropriate governance and risk systems, ensuring that the area adheres to the Trust Risk Management policy and procedures, reporting and proactively finding and escalating solutions to address risk, and monitoring progress on agreed mitigation plans.

Monitoring and delivery of key performance, access targets contractual obligations and Nursing/ AHP quality standards, CQUINS and CQC standards using data and information to support decisions, promptly escalating issues which cant be resolved

Contributing to reviewing business and service performance, reporting on Nursing/AHP performance to the senior leadership team.

Assist Head of Nursing/ AHPs in the management of complaints/ patient safety incidents including safeguarding. Ensuring open transparent and accurate responses with robust deliverable action plans and timely to meet the Trust guidelines and patient/service user expectations.

Support the Head of Nursing /AHPs in the implementation and performance monitoring of the Liverpool Quality Audit and all other relevant quality audits in the Care Group. Taking a key role in ensuring ward and department compliance and monitoring the action plans

Ensure patient and carer experience is embedded, with sharing of lessons learnt. with outputs shared and actions delivered

Ensure all ward and department staff are aware of the safeguarding policy and embed principles within areas.

Regularly monitor that the legal obligations and that patient and other safety requirements for area(s) of responsibility are being met including safeguarding.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• DCR or Degree in Radiography
• Postgraduate qualification in specialised imaging/ Research

Desirable

• Masters or higher degree

Experience

Essential

• Senior radiographer with demonstrable experience in Medical Imaging of a range of Imaging Modalities
• Knowledge and experience of imaging in oncology
• Knowledge of ICH GCP Standards for research

Desirable

• Knowledge of the research process within the Trust and how that relates to the NHS and of the Research Governance process
• Knowledge of imaging requirements for research (e.g. Resist Criteria)
• Knowledge of research report writing for publication and experience in having published research findings.
• Experience in leading large teams

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of IR(ME)R and IRR Regulations
• Knowledge of HSE and CQC guidance

Skills

Essential

• IT skills. (Word, excel, RIS< image handling) Good interpersonal skills Ability to motivate and influence/persuade others and change cultures Good personal time management and organisation Ability to work independently and be selfmotivated Ability to prioritise

Other

Essential

• Ability to implement change

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

RLUH

Liverpool

L7 8XP

Employer's website

https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)