Job summary
The Radiology ICT Team supports the Radiology Department, which is located across the 2 main sites of the Trust (Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital) in providing a wide diversity of imaging investigations, therefore the appointed individual would be expected to communicate with various internal users including, General Radiology, MRI, CT, Breast Care Unit and Nuclear Medicine departments, as well as PACS & RIS users in the Trust, PACS departments across Kent, Imaging Centres both within and outside of Kent, the Trusts Informatics Service and equipment and system manufacturers.
The Service currently runs 5 days per week but we anticipate this will change to 7 day working in the future and the successful applicant would be required to work between 8 am and 6pm, normally 7.5hrs shifts on a rolling work schedule. There may be times when working outside of these times is necessary for which compensatory time will be given. The post will require cross site working between Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital.
Main duties of the job
Duties will include assisting in the day to day management of the Radiology ICT systems, image transfers both into an out of the Trust, working closely with other members of the Radiology ICT team, clerical and administrative duties and provide technical support and advice to the Radiology Department PACS service users.
About us
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.
The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.
The Trusts core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients the first of its kind in the country.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated.We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients.We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment.We work with Stonewall to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff.We have 78nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients.We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics
Interviews: To be confirmed
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated.We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients.We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment.We work with Stonewall to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff.We have 78nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients.We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics
Interviews: To be confirmed
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma level or professional qualification in IT services, or have equivalent relevant experience and Commitment to ongoing education and training.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years' experience working with NHS computer systems.
- Experience in presentations to staff audiences, and knowledge of appropriate support media
- In-depth knowledge of the Trusts computer systems.
- Knowledge of the MS Office software systems.
Desirable
- Relevant professional qualifications, or evidence of training and experience
Skills
Essential
- Querying of System data
- Analysis of Data
- Production of reports
- High Level Keyboard skills
- Mentoring of staff
- High level IT knowledge
Desirable
- Willingness to attend further training sessions such as MS Office products & SQL query development
- Ability to work on own initiative
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma level or professional qualification in IT services, or have equivalent relevant experience and Commitment to ongoing education and training.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years' experience working with NHS computer systems.
- Experience in presentations to staff audiences, and knowledge of appropriate support media
- In-depth knowledge of the Trusts computer systems.
- Knowledge of the MS Office software systems.
Desirable
- Relevant professional qualifications, or evidence of training and experience
Skills
Essential
- Querying of System data
- Analysis of Data
- Production of reports
- High Level Keyboard skills
- Mentoring of staff
- High level IT knowledge
Desirable
- Willingness to attend further training sessions such as MS Office products & SQL query development
- Ability to work on own initiative
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.
