Job summary
Are you a highly motivated radiographer who is able to provide professional leadership, guidance, development and support for registered radiographers and unregistered clinical support staff within Diagnostic Radiography at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as our Diagnostic Radiography Professional Lead?
The Diagnostic Radiology Specialty Business Unit at LTHTR operates and delivers services across three sites. These services include CT, MRI, Plain Film Imaging, DEXA, Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine, Fluoroscopy, Breast Imaging, PET CT, Neurointerventional Radiology and Interventional Radiology.
Main duties of the job
The Diagnostic Radiography Professional Lead is an interesting role which brings opportunities and challenges. Are you an experienced radiographer, used to working in a large department, enthusiastic and with a mind for problem solving? As the professional lead for all radiology related issues across the Trust, the main aspects of the role include:
- Providing professional leadership, guidance, development and support for all registered radiographers and unregistered clinical support staff in radiology.
- To support the delivery of a high quality and safe service with a positive working experience for staff and service users.
- Ensuring professional standards are met, and delivery of care is in line with best practice standards.
- Working with partners in education
- Ensuring the delivery of high quality evidence based practice in their profession across the organisation in line with national and local strategy and policy, Trust priorities, IRMER regulations, CQC standards, NICE guidance, safety, quality and clinical governance frameworks
- Ensuring the radiology department is appropriately accredited to provide a proactive developmental environment for all qualified and trainee radiographers. Lead on the professional succession planning within radiology
- Representing and promoting diagnostic radiography as a profession in the Trust, the ICS and the North West region
About us
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This really is an amazing opportunity to lead your profession in a large acute organisation, delivering specialist services both locally and regionally. As the Diagnostic Professional Radiography Lead you will support all registered diagnostic radiographers and unregistered diagnostic radiography.
You must be an autonomous expert clinically focussed practitioner in Radiography and be capable of using transferrable knowledge and skill to professionally support staff with their clinical caseloads. You will work across professional and organisational boundaries to expand and develop Radiography services, therefore successful experience of networking and influencing are essential.
The role is diverse and no 2 days are the same; you will drive forward agendas in areas such as workforce, safety & quality and service transformation. You will oversee the education and professional development for all diagnostic radiographers, ensuring they have opportunities to develop and progress. You will maintain the current strong links with the local HEI to support delivery of education and training programmes for all trainees.
In this role you will be responsible for the assurance of high standards of clinical governance and demonstrable best practice across Diagnostic Radiography, ensuring high quality outcomes for patients. You will promote a culture of continuous improvement using local and national data to enhance clinical practice, service delivery, efficiency and performance.
If you feel ready to take on this opportunity, then we look forward to hearing from you. Please make contact for an informal discussion or email with any queries. We are more than happy to schedule a MS teams call or site visit for anyone interested.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This really is an amazing opportunity to lead your profession in a large acute organisation, delivering specialist services both locally and regionally. As the Diagnostic Professional Radiography Lead you will support all registered diagnostic radiographers and unregistered diagnostic radiography.
You must be an autonomous expert clinically focussed practitioner in Radiography and be capable of using transferrable knowledge and skill to professionally support staff with their clinical caseloads. You will work across professional and organisational boundaries to expand and develop Radiography services, therefore successful experience of networking and influencing are essential.
The role is diverse and no 2 days are the same; you will drive forward agendas in areas such as workforce, safety & quality and service transformation. You will oversee the education and professional development for all diagnostic radiographers, ensuring they have opportunities to develop and progress. You will maintain the current strong links with the local HEI to support delivery of education and training programmes for all trainees.
In this role you will be responsible for the assurance of high standards of clinical governance and demonstrable best practice across Diagnostic Radiography, ensuring high quality outcomes for patients. You will promote a culture of continuous improvement using local and national data to enhance clinical practice, service delivery, efficiency and performance.
If you feel ready to take on this opportunity, then we look forward to hearing from you. Please make contact for an informal discussion or email with any queries. We are more than happy to schedule a MS teams call or site visit for anyone interested.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential
- BSc in Diagnostic Radiography
- Educated to masters level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- HCPC registration
- Leadership qualification/certificate or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Post-graduate leadership programme
- Coaching qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Extensive, in depth, knowledge and post qualification experience within diagnostic radiography
- Demonstrable, recent senior leadership experience with evidence of leading and managing teams and projects
- Extensive knowledge of diagnostic radiography equipment and techniques being used in current practice
- Wide ranging experience of implementing change and project management experience
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of current professional issues and the national agendas
- Knowledge of policy context relevant to the commissioning and provision of services
- Experience leading clinic audit/research projects
- Working knowledge of financial processes, budget setting and able to manage a budget
Desirable
- Experience of business case development
Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential
- BSc in Diagnostic Radiography
- Educated to masters level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- HCPC registration
- Leadership qualification/certificate or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Post-graduate leadership programme
- Coaching qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Extensive, in depth, knowledge and post qualification experience within diagnostic radiography
- Demonstrable, recent senior leadership experience with evidence of leading and managing teams and projects
- Extensive knowledge of diagnostic radiography equipment and techniques being used in current practice
- Wide ranging experience of implementing change and project management experience
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of current professional issues and the national agendas
- Knowledge of policy context relevant to the commissioning and provision of services
- Experience leading clinic audit/research projects
- Working knowledge of financial processes, budget setting and able to manage a budget
Desirable
- Experience of business case development
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
