Employer: The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Princess Alexandra Hospital
Town: Harlow
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/01/2025 23:59
MRI Modality Lead Radiographer
NHS AfC: Band 8a
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
Our values
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.
Job overview
This role is part of a redesign of the senior management structure at the Princess Alexandra NHS Trust.
The post holder will provide leadership for the MRI departments within PAH and at the CDC hub at St. Margaret’s Hospital, delivering high quality clinical care and ensuring optimum use of staffing and equipment resources, as well as promoting continuous improvement in service delivery and quality to improve productivity through redesign and best practice. They will demonstrate a high level of clinical expertise within the modality providing advice, education and support to other staff and stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
The role will predominately provide MRI clinical expertise to ensure the smooth running of the department. Due to the senior nature of this role, the individual will be expected to line manage the MRI radiographer team, which will involve undertaking appraisals, managing sickness and absence, booking of MRI staff annual leave, and producing the MRI team rotas. It is expected that the post holder has an astute understanding of the safety and governance rules within the areas they are working in. They will also be expected to work alongside the radiology management to develop policies, protocols and procedures so that the department meets the standards set by CQC, as well as working with the Radiology Control team to ensure that the department is compliant in key performance indicators. Attendance to departmental meetings is also required.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.
Person specification
Experience
* Previous NHS experience
What we can offer you:
* Full induction and onboarding process in our organisation
* Free car parking for our staff
* Structured pay scheme, including additional living supplement to your basic salary
* Minimum 27 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time staff)
* Access to our Alex Lounge, our staff only rest area with free tea and coffee
* Access to NHS Pension scheme
* Flexible working options available, in line with our flexible working policy
* Onsite creche facilities
* Annual appraisals with career pathways
* In-house training courses
* Discounted hospital restaurant
* Staff health and wellbeing health services and complimentary health provision
* Our Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all its employees. We welcome applications from anyone who meets the specific criteria of the post regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Reasonable adjustments to the interview process can also be made for any candidates with a disability
* All new colleagues joining PAHT will be subject to a probationary period of six months
* The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment
* Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and vulnerable adults. Offers of employment are subject to pre-employment NHS screening checks
* Providing false or misleading information or unsatisfactory pre-employment checks may result in the offer of a post being withdrawn
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Liz Penn
Job title: General Manager for Radiology
Email address: [emailprotected]
Telephone number: 01279978687
Additional information:
Matthew Rutter - Imaging Workforce Lead
[emailprotected]
01279 827273
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