Job summary
Head of Clinical Physics - Band 9 The Head of Clinical Physics plays a key role in developing, improving and delivering services across our Hospital Group, working in conjunction with system partners. We are looking for a motivated and experienced leader who can bring energy and focus to Clinical Physics services. The successful candidate will form part of the senior leadership team within the Clinical Services Division based at St Bartholomew's Hospital, working closely with the Divisional triumvirate, responsible for ensuring the safe, high quality and efficient delivery of services across: Radiation Safety Radiotherapy Physics Nuclear Medicine Physics Clinical Engineering Medical Engineering MRI Physics & Vascular Clinical Physics Research For further information about the role or for an informal discussion, please contactJonathan Kelly, Divisional Director of Operations, Clinical Services Division - jonathan.kelly5@nhs.net OR
Christine Fairclough, Divisional PA - christine.fairclough3@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
The Head of Clinical Physics will provide strategic operational leadership for services (as identified) within the Clinical Services Division across our Group of Hospitals, ensuring that there are appropriate systems and processes to enable staff to deliver good quality clinical care, effective governance and drive forward the service improvement agenda to achieve efficiency gains and improve the operational effectiveness of the clinical services. The Head of Clinical Physics will lead and direct a multi-disciplinary specialist team of healthcare scientists in delivering the priorities, goals and objectives agreed with the Barts Clinical Services Clinical Director and Divisional Director of Operations across the following domains:
- Well Led - Leadership, governance, and promoting learning and innovation
- Responsive - Services are well organised to meet the needs of patients
- Safe - Protecting staff and patients from abuse and avoidable harm
- Effective - Care, treatment and support achieves great patient outcomes
- Caring - Patients are treated with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect
The post holder will be accountable for the overall performance of the team, service and area in delivering national and local health care priorities, ensuring clinical quality, patient safety, regulatory compliance and improving patient experience.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment below.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level degree or relevant senior level experience
- Master's or other post-graduate qualification or relevant on-job experience
- Degree or higher education qualification
- State registered clinical scientist
Desirable
- Project management accredited training
- Chartered Engineer, IET
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience as a Consultant Clinical Scientist
- Broad knowledge of several disciplines within Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering
- Highly specialised knowledge and experience of one acknowledged Medical Physics discipline
- Senior level experience, with contribution to organisational change programmes and staff engagement
- Demonstrable evidence of understanding and experience of professional leadership
- Experience of leading transformational change and continuous improvement within the Clinical Physics workforce or similar
- Proven experience of building and working in partnership with both internal and external stakeholders
- Significant experience of: delivering continuous quality improvement, ensuring consistently high standards of clinical safety and quality, engaging and inspiring a professional workforce and working with regulators, e.g., CQC
- Experience of Serious Incidents review processes e.g. PSIRF
- Evidence of previous experience of working within a complex and challenging healthcare environment and of delivering operational and targets and strategic deliverables at senior level
- Experience of workforce planning and redesign
- Experience of using resources effectively in a challenged environment, budget management and development of business cases
- Experience of effective collaboration with leaders of other health and care disciplines
Desirable
- Substantial Research and Development portfolio and successful track record in research funding
- Experience of supervision of pre and post-doctoral students
- Experienced in delivery of educational material physics or engineering specialist topics
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of significant experience and training in professional leadership e.g. management, mentoring, coaching
- Good research knowledge and ability to build research capacity in others
- Broad knowledge of: oIonising radiation laws and associated guidelines oHealth and safety legislation oNon ionising radiation specialities Medica equipment guidelines
Skills
Essential
- Manage, develop, supervise specialist databases and specialist computing skills in research and development tools
- Strategic thinker and organiser with the ability to articulate a clear vision
- Able to employ a range of leadership styles to influence and negotiate effectively internally and externally
- Credible, inclusive and visible leader who is able to motivate and inspire teams to deliver high quality care
- Able to build and lead teams and to work effectively as part of a team
- Ability to understand complex issues, problem solve and propose solutions
- Effective problem-solving skills
- Demonstrates strong visible clinical leadership skills
- Ability to provide formal teaching development to staff and colleagues
- Excellent effective communication skills (verbal and written) with a range of professional, clinical and nonclinical staff and public
- Able to present information written and orally to the highest standard to suit varying audiences
Other
Essential
- Leads by example, promoting the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, integrity and probity
- Committed to delivering excellent care with compassion for every patient
- Politically astute
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
- Committed to the continuous development of staff and self
- Decisive, using sound judgement in decision making in a timely and confident manner
- Commitment to developing culture of openness and partnership
- High self-awareness, understanding own emotions, strengths and limitations
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level degree or relevant senior level experience
- Master's or other post-graduate qualification or relevant on-job experience
- Degree or higher education qualification
- State registered clinical scientist
Desirable
- Project management accredited training
- Chartered Engineer, IET
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience as a Consultant Clinical Scientist
- Broad knowledge of several disciplines within Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering
- Highly specialised knowledge and experience of one acknowledged Medical Physics discipline
- Senior level experience, with contribution to organisational change programmes and staff engagement
- Demonstrable evidence of understanding and experience of professional leadership
- Experience of leading transformational change and continuous improvement within the Clinical Physics workforce or similar
- Proven experience of building and working in partnership with both internal and external stakeholders
- Significant experience of: delivering continuous quality improvement, ensuring consistently high standards of clinical safety and quality, engaging and inspiring a professional workforce and working with regulators, e.g., CQC
- Experience of Serious Incidents review processes e.g. PSIRF
- Evidence of previous experience of working within a complex and challenging healthcare environment and of delivering operational and targets and strategic deliverables at senior level
- Experience of workforce planning and redesign
- Experience of using resources effectively in a challenged environment, budget management and development of business cases
- Experience of effective collaboration with leaders of other health and care disciplines
Desirable
- Substantial Research and Development portfolio and successful track record in research funding
- Experience of supervision of pre and post-doctoral students
- Experienced in delivery of educational material physics or engineering specialist topics
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of significant experience and training in professional leadership e.g. management, mentoring, coaching
- Good research knowledge and ability to build research capacity in others
- Broad knowledge of: oIonising radiation laws and associated guidelines oHealth and safety legislation oNon ionising radiation specialities Medica equipment guidelines
Skills
Essential
- Manage, develop, supervise specialist databases and specialist computing skills in research and development tools
- Strategic thinker and organiser with the ability to articulate a clear vision
- Able to employ a range of leadership styles to influence and negotiate effectively internally and externally
- Credible, inclusive and visible leader who is able to motivate and inspire teams to deliver high quality care
- Able to build and lead teams and to work effectively as part of a team
- Ability to understand complex issues, problem solve and propose solutions
- Effective problem-solving skills
- Demonstrates strong visible clinical leadership skills
- Ability to provide formal teaching development to staff and colleagues
- Excellent effective communication skills (verbal and written) with a range of professional, clinical and nonclinical staff and public
- Able to present information written and orally to the highest standard to suit varying audiences
Other
Essential
- Leads by example, promoting the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, integrity and probity
- Committed to delivering excellent care with compassion for every patient
- Politically astute
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
- Committed to the continuous development of staff and self
- Decisive, using sound judgement in decision making in a timely and confident manner
- Commitment to developing culture of openness and partnership
- High self-awareness, understanding own emotions, strengths and limitations
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).
