Head of Imaging

Job responsibilities

Key Result Areas & Performance:

Work with the services senior management team (Clinical director and General Manager) and service leads to provide professional and clinical leadership to the department, ensuring that a framework is in place to ensure all nursing and imaging staff are appropriately managed and are clinically and professionally developed so that they are, therefore, efficient, effective, engaged and highly motivated.

In partnership with the Clinical Director and departmental General Manager, implement the Trusts Imaging priorities and strategy.

Maintain a highly visible leadership profile, undertaking quality rounds and being proactive about engaging with service areas where required.

Support Imaging services to supervise clinical areas requiring special management measures or additional support to ensure that patient safety is maintained and improvement objectives are met.

Provide Professional supervision to other senior imaging staff who may be located in a different division.

Work with other health care professionals in the service to ensure safe, effective and professional standards of patient flows, care management and delivery.

Ensure that patient care is delivered with care and compassion to a high standard, to ensure a positive patient experience and achievement of clinical quality standards as measured through relevant clinical indicators and audits.

Ensure a consistent approach is taken across pathways and services in Imaging, so that all clinical staff comply with Trust-wide policies and procedures.

Ensure all clinical services in the post holders portfolio are managed within budget and achieving their key performance indicators.

Contribute to the development and implementation of the Divisions business plan by contributing to the service and business strategy, including cross-service and external partnership working.

Responsible for the delivery of identified quality and service improvement projects or development programmes that contribute to the modernisation of patient services.

Delivery of the Trusts Equality and Diversity Strategy in terms of non-medical clinical staff recruitment, retention and development.

Manage the delivery of all Imaging innovation and development within the division and, where relevant, for the Trust.

Identify and take forward the specific contribution Imaging can make to the development of the services in the Division, delivery of QIPP and achievement of the improving use of resources programme.

Support the Departmental triumvirate and Service Leads in the development and application of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements that ensure full compliance with internal and external governance procedures and to benchmark against best practice requirements.

Undertaking trend analyses of selected complaints and adverse incidents, and especially as they relate to Imaging.

Responsible for ensuring that all other aspects of risk and clinical governance are robustly and effectively managed.

Responsible for overseeing and managing ARSAC, IRMER and Environment agency compliance.

Responsible for the delivery of identified service improvement projects or development programmes that contribute to the modernisation of patient services, providing both professional and clinical advice as necessary.

Experience

Essential

• HCPC Registered
• Master's degree or equivalent experience in management or a clinical profession.
• Management qualification.
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Formal education to first degree level or equivalent ability
• Radiographer

Experience

Essential

• Significant Experience of working as a senior manager within an NHS organisation with specialist knowledge of managing acute clinical services.
• Demonstrate evidence of sound financial / staff management.
• Experience of managing specialist services
• Evidence of Managing change and project management
• Business planning & development
• A proven ability to obtain and consistently achieve results and targets.
• Good working knowledge and understanding of the role of corporate services, e.g., Estates Facilities and IT.
• Familiarity with basic IT applications

Desirable

• Experience of partnership working.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Has the drive and energy to make things happen.
• Shares leadership with and is respected by clinical and non-clinical staff.
• Is action oriented and adaptable to changing circumstances
• Thinks and solves problems creatively and from a position of inquiry (versus advocacy)
• Provides authentic and clear communication and direction even in times of uncertainty/ambiguity
• Engages effectively across boundaries, while operating in partnership with stakeholders
• Has effective strategies for dealing with and managing own limitations
• Can interpret complex management data/information
• Proven ability to deal with wide range of data and information and take appropriate decisions from it.
• Proven ability of leading change through people.
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills - ability to negotiate influence in difficult and contentious situations.
• A strong commitment to openness, honesty and inclusiveness.
• Sound knowledge base of healthcare
• Attention to detail
• Able to manage work diary to respond flexibly to the needs of the service.

Qualities

Essential

• Flexibility
• Resilient, even in the face of setbacks

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).