Diagnostic Radiography Professional Lead
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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. 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.
* Supporting 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. Leading 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.
Job responsibilities
This opportunity allows you to lead your profession in a large acute organisation, delivering specialist services both locally and regionally. You will support all registered diagnostic radiographers and unregistered diagnostic radiography staff.
You must be an autonomous expert clinically focused 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 two 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 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
* BSc in Diagnostic Radiography
* Educated to masters level or equivalent experience
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* HCPC registration
* Post-graduate leadership programme
* Coaching qualification
Knowledge and Experience
* 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 clinical audit/research projects.
* Working knowledge of financial processes, budget setting and ability to manage a budget.
* 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.
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Salary
£62,215 to £72,293 a year Per Annum, Pro Rata
Job locations
Royal Preston Hospital & Chorley Hospital
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