MRI Superintendent

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities

1. Leadership and Personnel Management

• Staff Coordination: Manages the daily allocation of staff across both Princess Alexandra and St. Margaret’s hospitals, ensuring that shifts are fully covered and resources are utilized effectively.
• Competency Matching: Carefully matches daily workloads to the specific abilities and documented areas of competency of the radiographers on duty.
• Mentorship and Education: Leads the training and supervision of qualified MRI staff and student radiographers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
• Performance Management: Conducts annual appraisals for MRI radiographers, identifying training needs and supporting career progression within the Trust.
• Workforce Motivation: Provides credible leadership to motivate the team, ensuring high morale and a commitment to the Trust’s core values.

2. Operational Management and Safety

• Resource Optimization: Collaborates with the Radiology Management team to ensure the MRI service runs effectively within the constraints of available budgets and resources.
• Magnet Protection Supervision: Acts as the designated Magnet Protection Supervisor, enforcing strict adherence to all safety rules, exclusion zones, and regulations regarding the high-strength magnetic field.
• Patient Advocacy: Ensures the MRI department operates with the "Patient at Heart," maintaining a safe environment and prioritizing patient wellbeing during complex diagnostic procedures.
• Complaint Investigation: Takes an active role in handling and investigating departmental complaints, using feedback to identify areas for service improvement.
• Multi-disciplinary Liaison: Maintains professional working relationships with medical staff, nursing teams, and administrative personnel in associated wards and clinic areas.

3. Technical Expertise and Quality Assurance

• Equipment Lifecycle Management: Monitors the performance of complex and expensive MRI equipment, taking direct responsibility for organizing repairs, routine maintenance, and replacements.
• Procurement Advisory: Plays a key role in the procurement process by evaluating new technology against the Trust’s planned needs and clinical requirements.
• Quality Control: Supervises and evaluates comprehensive Quality Assurance (QA) tests, ensuring all results are documented and any deviations are corrected immediately.
• Audit and Research: Leads departmental audits and primary research initiatives, utilizing data-driven results to refine clinical techniques and improve patient outcomes.
• Clinical Reporting: Undertakes Plain Film Orbit Reporting duties, provided the post-holder holds the necessary qualifications and maintains ongoing competency.

4. Corporate and Professional Responsibilities

• Policy Compliance: Operates within all legal frameworks, Trust procedures, and national guidelines, with specific focus on Health and Safety, Data Protection, and Equal Opportunities.
• Confidentiality: Adheres to the Caldicott principles and the Data Protection Act to ensure patient information is handled with the highest level of security and discretion.
• Professional Status: Maintains personal HCPC registration and professional license by meeting all requirements for periodic registration and continuing professional development (CPD).
• Risk Management: Actively participates in the Trust’s Risk Management Strategy to maintain a safe environment for all staff, patients, and visitors.

Mandatory Trust Responsibilities

AMENDING THE JOB DESCRIPTION: This is a newly created role and it is expected that as the organisation develops and changes, it may be necessary to

vary the tasks and/or the responsibilities of the post holder. This will be done in consultation with the post holder and it is hoped that agreement can be reached with regards to any reasonable changes.

CONFIDENTIALITY: The post holder must at all times maintain complete confidentiality of the material and information that they handle. Any matters of a

confidential nature, or in particular, information relating to diagnoses and treatment of patients and individual staff records must not, under any circumstances, be divulged or passed on to any unauthorised person or persons. The post holder must respect patient named confidentiality in keeping with “Caldicott principles”.

DATA PROTECTION: The post holder must at all times respect the confidentiality of information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act. This includes, if required to do so, obtain, process and/or use information held on a computer in a fair and lawful way, to hold data only for the specified registered purposes and to use or disclose data only to authorised persons or organisations as instructed.

POLICIES and PROCEDURES: The post holder will be expected to comply with all statutory legislation, Trust Financial Framework Guidance and approved national and local policy. The post holder is also expected to be aware of the Trust’s Risk Management Strategy which includes the responsibilities placed on them by the Health & Safety at Work etc Act (1974) and the Clinical Governance Framework. All employees are expected to comply with all Trust Policies and Procedures.

GENERAL: The post holder will be expected to comply with all statutory legislation, Trust Financial Framework Guidance and approved national and local policy. The post holder will be expected to be responsible for his/her continuing professional development and to take a proactive approach to maintaining personal and professional effectiveness in an evolving role.

HEALTH AND SAFETY: Employees must be aware of the responsibilities placed on them by the Health & Safety at Work etc Act (1974) to ensure that the agreed safety procedure is carried out to maintain a safe environment for the other employees and visitors.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES POLICY: The Trust operates in a multi-ethnic area. All members of staff are expected to take into account equalities in all areas of work. All employees are expected to abide by the Trust’s equal opportunities policy, failure to do so could result in disciplinary action up to and including dismissal.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• HCPC registered radiographer
• Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
• Evidence of ongoing professional development

Desirable

• Principal research investigator

Experience

Essential

• Experience in mentoring students
• Minimum 5 years experience work in MRI
• Experience in improving MRI professional standards

Desirable

• Experience in involvement with primary research
• Previous experience of supporting change in an NHS environment

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.

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

St Margaret's Hospital

Epping

Essex

CM16 6TN

Employer's website

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