Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity to recruit an enthusiastic, dedicated individual to support the Imaging Regulatory Compliance Team in promoting quality, safety and governance across our imaging and cardiac diagnostics departments. We are looking for someone who is comfortable in the both clinical and office workspace environment, and is looking for a dynamic, fast-paced role, interacting with a variety of multidisciplinary stakeholders. The individual should have skills and temperament to work in a collaborative manner across a wide range of internal services and external partners and display sound knowledge of radiography clinical practice
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as a member of the Imaging Regulatory Compliance Team to coordinate and deliver a range of activities at site level and within individual service groups, to ensure compliance with imaging quality, radiation safety, and regulatory standards. This individual will work with the Group Radiation Safety Assurance Manager and Group Imaging Quality Manager on the Radiation Assurance and imaging accreditation programmes. The postholder will work across the hospital sites of the Barts Health Group and in collaboration with the North East London Imaging Network, working with departments where ionising and non-ionising radiation is used for the diagnosis and treatment of disease, screening programmes and research. The programme will ensure consistency of approach across all hospital sites, minimising duplication and promoting best practice
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.
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
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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc or equivalent in Diagnostic Radiography
- Professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Evidence of, or working towards post registration qualification (professional or managerial) at MSc/PG dip level, or equivalent
Desirable
- Qualifications in Quality Management
- Supervisory management / training qualification
- Relevant post grad courses
Experience
Essential
- Demonstratable experience in an imaging department with subject matter expertise in chosen modality
- Experience of working at a senior level within an imaging service.
- Development and implementation of Radiographic protocols and procedures
- Current experience of managing a complex area of work and leading a multi-disciplinary team.
- Current experience of staff management in MDT working, including HR Issues
- Experience of working with ionising and/or non-ionising radiation in a managerial capacity
- Ability to interpret basic data and identify trends, attained through degree level education or relevant demonstratable experience
- Awareness of the principles of clinical governance
- Experience of formally presenting information to large groups of people
- Experience of audit in evaluating and developing a Service
- Experience of influencing staff, for whom you have no direct management responsibility
Desirable
- A track record of implementing and managing change and working with accredited services.
- Experience in CQC readiness
- Experience or demonstratable knowledge of project management
- Experience of writing business cases/feasibility projects.
- Experience of reporting at directorate board level or higher
- Experiencing chairing meetings.
- Involvement with devising and implementing competency frameworks for staff training
- Experience of investigating incidents and managing outcomes.
- Documented evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Recognised project /programme qualification i.e. Prince 2, agile PM, MSP
- Evidence of work in developing or assisting the development of Quality Systems.
Personal Skills
Essential
- Interpersonal skills i.e. excellent communication skills and ability to establish effective working relationships with all staff
- Leadership skills, able to set objectives, and hold people to account.
- Organised, able to proactively self-manage timescales and prioritise.
- Ability to interact effectively at all levels of the organisation including with trust executives
- Evidence of managing a stressful situation to a successful outcome
- Good IT skills i.e. sound working knowledge of the internet and of programs such as MS Teams, MS-Excel and MS-Word, as well as imaging based systems such as PACS/RIS/SmartID
- Able to proof-read and undertake document control
- Proven people management skills, leads by example demonstrating adherence to Trust WeCare Vision and Values.
- Demonstrates inclusive attitudes and behaviours
Desirable
- Recent experience of managing complaints/ challenging attitudes and behaviours.
- Recent experience of managing staff expectations
- Experience of using Q-Pulse, iPassport or another QMS.
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of Clinical & Radiation Governance, relevant to imaging and managing a modality area.
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of Clinical & Radiation Governance, relevant to imaging and managing a modality area.
- Awareness of the legal responsibilities of an imaging service to patients, service users, and staff.
- Knowledge of current issues within healthcare and radiography.
- Knowledge of national standards, guidelines, legislation related to imaging governance and quality management.
- nowledge of Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and learning responses.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Understanding of risk management to a high level.
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate involvement with implementing new processes, project management or introduction and managing training for implementation of new equipment in clinical working.
- Knowledge of the QSI and BSI standards, RCR, SoR or NICE Publications.
- Knowledge of imaging KPIs and national targets
- Understanding of eWTD and workforce management.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc or equivalent in Diagnostic Radiography
- Professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Evidence of, or working towards post registration qualification (professional or managerial) at MSc/PG dip level, or equivalent
Desirable
- Qualifications in Quality Management
- Supervisory management / training qualification
- Relevant post grad courses
Experience
Essential
- Demonstratable experience in an imaging department with subject matter expertise in chosen modality
- Experience of working at a senior level within an imaging service.
- Development and implementation of Radiographic protocols and procedures
- Current experience of managing a complex area of work and leading a multi-disciplinary team.
- Current experience of staff management in MDT working, including HR Issues
- Experience of working with ionising and/or non-ionising radiation in a managerial capacity
- Ability to interpret basic data and identify trends, attained through degree level education or relevant demonstratable experience
- Awareness of the principles of clinical governance
- Experience of formally presenting information to large groups of people
- Experience of audit in evaluating and developing a Service
- Experience of influencing staff, for whom you have no direct management responsibility
Desirable
- A track record of implementing and managing change and working with accredited services.
- Experience in CQC readiness
- Experience or demonstratable knowledge of project management
- Experience of writing business cases/feasibility projects.
- Experience of reporting at directorate board level or higher
- Experiencing chairing meetings.
- Involvement with devising and implementing competency frameworks for staff training
- Experience of investigating incidents and managing outcomes.
- Documented evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Recognised project /programme qualification i.e. Prince 2, agile PM, MSP
- Evidence of work in developing or assisting the development of Quality Systems.
Personal Skills
Essential
- Interpersonal skills i.e. excellent communication skills and ability to establish effective working relationships with all staff
- Leadership skills, able to set objectives, and hold people to account.
- Organised, able to proactively self-manage timescales and prioritise.
- Ability to interact effectively at all levels of the organisation including with trust executives
- Evidence of managing a stressful situation to a successful outcome
- Good IT skills i.e. sound working knowledge of the internet and of programs such as MS Teams, MS-Excel and MS-Word, as well as imaging based systems such as PACS/RIS/SmartID
- Able to proof-read and undertake document control
- Proven people management skills, leads by example demonstrating adherence to Trust WeCare Vision and Values.
- Demonstrates inclusive attitudes and behaviours
Desirable
- Recent experience of managing complaints/ challenging attitudes and behaviours.
- Recent experience of managing staff expectations
- Experience of using Q-Pulse, iPassport or another QMS.
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of Clinical & Radiation Governance, relevant to imaging and managing a modality area.
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of Clinical & Radiation Governance, relevant to imaging and managing a modality area.
- Awareness of the legal responsibilities of an imaging service to patients, service users, and staff.
- Knowledge of current issues within healthcare and radiography.
- Knowledge of national standards, guidelines, legislation related to imaging governance and quality management.
- nowledge of Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and learning responses.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Understanding of risk management to a high level.
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate involvement with implementing new processes, project management or introduction and managing training for implementation of new equipment in clinical working.
- Knowledge of the QSI and BSI standards, RCR, SoR or NICE Publications.
- Knowledge of imaging KPIs and national targets
- Understanding of eWTD and workforce management.
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).
