Employer: The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Princess Alexandra Hospital
Town: Harlow
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Plus 5% high cost area supplement
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/01/2025 23:59
X-Ray 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
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:
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 x-ray departments within Radiology at PAH and at the CDC sites at St. Margaret’s Hospital (SMH) and Herts and Essex Hospital (HEH), 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
* Professional Radiographic Lead for the department.
* Responsible for annual leave allocation and record keeping of leave.
* Take responsibility for a high standard of service delivery within the Radiology Department.
* Deputise for the Radiology Clinical Manager in their absence.
* Hold regular communication and development meetings with radiographic staff in conjunction with the Superintendent Radiographer colleagues.
* Appraise Radiographic staff and encourage their personal development in close liaison with the senior staff.
* Provide a Radiographic Service at all sites by matching staff resources to the imaging needs with close liaison with the senior staff.
* Act as Radiation Protection Supervisor for the PAH department.
A full list of duties can be found in the attached job description.
Person specification
Registration
* HCPC with NHS Experience
Experience
* Reporting Qualification
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.
* All new colleagues joining PAHT will be subject to a probationary period of six months.
* The closing date given is a guide only.
* Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and vulnerable adults.
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: e.penn@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01279978687
Additional information: Matthew Rutter - Imaging Workforce Lead
Matthew.rutter@nhs.net
01279 827273
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