Superintendent General Radiographer - Community Diagnostic Centre(CDC)

Job summary

This is an exciting time to join The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust have been awarded the funding to support the vision for the West Essex Community Diagnostics Centre (CDC) in to providing timely access to diagnostics for all of the West Essex population, tackling health inequalities and achieving the 28-day Faster Diagnosis Standard (FDS) for all potential cancer and non-cancer patients. Clinical patient pathways will be joined up between primary, community and secondary care by redesigning existing healthcare provision to include elective and non-elective models of care and extension of opening hours.

PAHT sites, including St Margaret's Hospital, Epping (SMH) and Herts' and Essex Hospital, Bishops Stortford (HEH) via a hub and spoke approach will see better co-location of diagnostic services by offering streamlined diagnostic pathways with fewer appointments in a modern diagnostic setting. There will be future flexibility to add further diagnostics on the preferred site to meet the changing needs of the growing population

A newly instated Superintendent Radiographer role with focus on Management and Leadership based at the external site/s predominately HEH (CDC spoke) to oversee the plain film modality inclusive of the CDC components due to come online imminently.

Main duties of the job

• Management and Leadership of the Radiology Department/s at the external sites inclusive of the CDC
• Liaise with Radiology Service Manager/s including the Quality Manager for Radiology and Appointments Manager to ensure diagnostic wait targets are achieved.
• Ensure turnaround targets are met
• Production and implementation of all Protocols related to general radiographic practice
• Education and learning
• Student oversight
• Patient safety and quality facilitator
• Liaise with key stakeholders to ensure turnaround targets are met
• Ensuring outpatient clinics, GPDA, CDC, inpatients and MIU are provided with a efficient service
• Responsible for the training and development of radiographers working at these locations
• Local RPS
• QA programme lead

About us

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.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

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

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

SMH/HEH/PAHT

harlow

CM20 1QX

Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

SMH/HEH/PAHT

harlow

CM20 1QX

Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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