Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Imaging team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the role of Lead Radiographer- Plain Film, Fluoroscopy and Radiographer Reporting.
The successful candidate will assist the Head AHP/RN in the running of the Plain Film, Fluoroscopy and Radiographer Reporting service, working with the Senior Leadership team and their Imaging Modality Team in integrating services across the city.
The posts will be site specific, based at Royal Liverpool Hospital.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will assist in planning the strategic direction of their team, concentrating on staff development/ role progression, staff engagement and recruitment & retention, aiming to deliver safe and high quality care at all times. This is to ensure that the service is meeting the organisation's values of great care, great people, great research & innovation and great ambitions.
The post holder will also lead on providing solutions to complex issues and challenging the status quo to improve and adapt the way services are run. They will provide leadership support for their team and lead on quality and service improvements, helping to provide diagnostics which are evidence based, of a high standard, and which are patient focused.
The post holders will aid the Head Radiographer with their team's workforce planning, establishment control and HR responsibilities, whilst being accountable for governance, performance, quality and safety. The post holder should thrive in an environment of constant change whilst being able to deliver objectives and targets within quality standards and resource constraints. The post holder should be able to champion professional standards and have experience in leading large clinical teams.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Leadership
Be a role model and leader to all staff within their specialities and across the wider Care Group, particularly for the Nursing and AHP profession. They will demonstrate a values led attitude, a coaching style of leadership and a high level of skill in giving and receiving constructive feedback.Be a visible Nurse/AHP leader, encouraging staff to contribute to implementation plans, ensuring a high quality and efficient approach to service delivery, including remaining calm, controlled and solution focused in times of difficulty
Lead by example to inspire, motivate, and encourage others using a coaching style of leadership ensuring that others have clear direction, support, accountability and responsibility to deliver.Support implementation of appraisal and development plans for all Nursing/AHP colleagues within your designated team, ensuring a coaching style of leadership and development of potential at every level is at the heart of everyday communications, creating a culture where giving and receiving constructive feedback is embedded.
Develop opportunities for staff engagement within team(s) ensuring that unnecessary blocks to processes and pathways are removed.Use staff engagement as a driver for service improvement within the area, ensuring that actions are followed through in a structured way.
Implementing effective communication strategies and techniques to promote involvement, effective decision making and a common sense of purpose, including supporting staff and stakeholder engagement at the start of planned organisational change.
Forming an essential two way communications link between the Nursing/AHP profession and other staff in the area, ensuring that key messages, team brief etc. are shared and discussed.
Supporting the Head of Nursing/ AHPs to formulate creative vision and clinical strategy for the area, offering ideas which reflect the contribution of the Nursing/AHP profession, health needs of the local population, and contribute to the annual business, workforce and financial planning process.
Clinical Governance / Quality
Implementing and monitoring of appropriate governance and risk systems, ensuring that the area adheres to the Trust Risk Management policy and procedures, reporting and proactively finding and escalating solutions to address risk, and monitoring progress on agreed mitigation plans.
Monitoring and delivery of key performance, access targets contractual obligations and Nursing/ AHP quality standards, CQUINS and CQC standards using data and information to support decisions, promptly escalating issues which cant be resolved
Contributing to reviewing business and service performance, reporting on Nursing/AHP performance to the senior leadership team.
Assist Head of Nursing/ AHPs in the management of complaints/ patient safety incidents including safeguarding. Ensuring open transparent and accurate responses with robust deliverable action plans and timely to meet the Trust guidelines and patient/service user expectations.
Support the Head of Nursing /AHPs in the implementation and performance monitoring of the Liverpool Quality Audit and all other relevant quality audits in the Care Group. Taking a key role in ensuring ward and department compliance and monitoring the action plans
Ensure patient and carer experience is embedded, with sharing of lessons learnt. with outputs shared and actions delivered
Ensure all ward and department staff are aware of the safeguarding policy and embed principles within areas.
Regularly monitor that the legal obligations and that patient and other safety requirements for area(s) of responsibility are being met including safeguarding.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Leadership
Be a role model and leader to all staff within their specialities and across the wider Care Group, particularly for the Nursing and AHP profession. They will demonstrate a values led attitude, a coaching style of leadership and a high level of skill in giving and receiving constructive feedback.Be a visible Nurse/AHP leader, encouraging staff to contribute to implementation plans, ensuring a high quality and efficient approach to service delivery, including remaining calm, controlled and solution focused in times of difficulty
Lead by example to inspire, motivate, and encourage others using a coaching style of leadership ensuring that others have clear direction, support, accountability and responsibility to deliver.Support implementation of appraisal and development plans for all Nursing/AHP colleagues within your designated team, ensuring a coaching style of leadership and development of potential at every level is at the heart of everyday communications, creating a culture where giving and receiving constructive feedback is embedded.
Develop opportunities for staff engagement within team(s) ensuring that unnecessary blocks to processes and pathways are removed.Use staff engagement as a driver for service improvement within the area, ensuring that actions are followed through in a structured way.
Implementing effective communication strategies and techniques to promote involvement, effective decision making and a common sense of purpose, including supporting staff and stakeholder engagement at the start of planned organisational change.
Forming an essential two way communications link between the Nursing/AHP profession and other staff in the area, ensuring that key messages, team brief etc. are shared and discussed.
Supporting the Head of Nursing/ AHPs to formulate creative vision and clinical strategy for the area, offering ideas which reflect the contribution of the Nursing/AHP profession, health needs of the local population, and contribute to the annual business, workforce and financial planning process.
Clinical Governance / Quality
Implementing and monitoring of appropriate governance and risk systems, ensuring that the area adheres to the Trust Risk Management policy and procedures, reporting and proactively finding and escalating solutions to address risk, and monitoring progress on agreed mitigation plans.
Monitoring and delivery of key performance, access targets contractual obligations and Nursing/ AHP quality standards, CQUINS and CQC standards using data and information to support decisions, promptly escalating issues which cant be resolved
Contributing to reviewing business and service performance, reporting on Nursing/AHP performance to the senior leadership team.
Assist Head of Nursing/ AHPs in the management of complaints/ patient safety incidents including safeguarding. Ensuring open transparent and accurate responses with robust deliverable action plans and timely to meet the Trust guidelines and patient/service user expectations.
Support the Head of Nursing /AHPs in the implementation and performance monitoring of the Liverpool Quality Audit and all other relevant quality audits in the Care Group. Taking a key role in ensuring ward and department compliance and monitoring the action plans
Ensure patient and carer experience is embedded, with sharing of lessons learnt. with outputs shared and actions delivered
Ensure all ward and department staff are aware of the safeguarding policy and embed principles within areas.
Regularly monitor that the legal obligations and that patient and other safety requirements for area(s) of responsibility are being met including safeguarding.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First level professional registration NMC/HCPC
- Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level or equivalent
- Significant evidence of post registration continued professional development, working towards masters
- Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent
- Evidence of Leadership development
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience as a clinical manager, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls.
- Demonstrate the ability to maintain high standards of care and team management over a sustained period
Knowledge
Essential
- Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally assess and describe impact on Nursing/clinical professional service.
- Knowledge and understanding of the NHS policy and regulatory policy
- Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems
- Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy
- Understanding and appreciation of diversity
Skills
Essential
- Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff and stakeholders, and in developing high performing teams
- A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences and resolve conflicts.
- Solve difficult problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills
- Research information and use audit skills to applying findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans.
- Analyse data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks and forming judgements often within tight timescales.
- Competently implement business plans, business cases and project plans in order to deliver the Clinical Service Strategy for the area.
- Coordinate area day to day clinical operational activity to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls
- Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation
- IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems
- Imaginative and innovative in developing new ways of working in meeting patient care and service needs
- Demonstrates good time management skills able to deal with competing priorities and a demanding workload
- Deal with uncertainty in a political environment
- Work in an environment with frequent interruptions, and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day
- Demonstrate the ability to lead and implement quality improvement strategies.
Desirable
- Demonstrate competent project management skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First level professional registration NMC/HCPC
- Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level or equivalent
- Significant evidence of post registration continued professional development, working towards masters
- Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent
- Evidence of Leadership development
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience as a clinical manager, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls.
- Demonstrate the ability to maintain high standards of care and team management over a sustained period
Knowledge
Essential
- Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally assess and describe impact on Nursing/clinical professional service.
- Knowledge and understanding of the NHS policy and regulatory policy
- Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems
- Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy
- Understanding and appreciation of diversity
Skills
Essential
- Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff and stakeholders, and in developing high performing teams
- A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences and resolve conflicts.
- Solve difficult problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills
- Research information and use audit skills to applying findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans.
- Analyse data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks and forming judgements often within tight timescales.
- Competently implement business plans, business cases and project plans in order to deliver the Clinical Service Strategy for the area.
- Coordinate area day to day clinical operational activity to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls
- Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation
- IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems
- Imaginative and innovative in developing new ways of working in meeting patient care and service needs
- Demonstrates good time management skills able to deal with competing priorities and a demanding workload
- Deal with uncertainty in a political environment
- Work in an environment with frequent interruptions, and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day
- Demonstrate the ability to lead and implement quality improvement strategies.
Desirable
- Demonstrate competent project management skills
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
