Job summary
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We are looking for a Quality Standard for Imaging Lead to join our expanding radiology team. The Norfolk and Waveney (N&W) Integrated Care System (ICS) will see a rapid expansion of Imaging capacity in 2024 due to our development of Diagnostic Assessment Centres (DAC).
This role will be based in The Queen Elizabeth Hospital where our new Diagnostic Assessment Centre is to be built and expected to be completed in late summer 2024. You will be working collaboratively with two other acute Trusts within the Norfolk and Waveney ISC, James Paget University Hospital and Norfolk and Norwich University hospital.
Within this position you will manage and be accountable for the QSI accreditation processes throughout the department, carrying out required management and leadership responsibilities to ensure that accreditation is successfully obtained through the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) and thereafter maintained.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for leading the imaging department through the accreditation process and that the service then maintains QSI (Quality Standard for Imaging Services Accreditation Scheme) accreditation.
- To complete the web-based electronic assessment process and complete this annually following accreditation.
- To coordinate the service's responses to QSI, ensuring that all evidence uploaded to the QSI web based assessment is relevant, up-to-date, and fully meets the QSI criteria.
- To coordinate ongoing requirements of QSI standards, ensuring that the processes within the Department are fully compliant with the QSI standards at all times.
- To organise and coordinate onsite visits with the accreditation team.
- To work closely with the Practice Development/Governance Manager, Radiologist Clinical Governance and modality leads, to ensure that governance and safety standards are maintained in line with Trust and QSI requirements.
- To work with Modality Team Leads, the Senior Leadership team and Consultant Radiologists to coordinate relevant audits and evidence requirements of each standard, promoting a culture of continuous quality improvement within the Department.
- To negotiate and collaborate with all levels of staff, across the imaging modalities, to resolve issues and remove barriers to enable change.
- To process, review and analyse highly complex information, including statistical data and audit information, to inform and advise on governance standards and processes.
About us
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is located near some of the most beautiful scenery in the UK, along the north Norfolk coast, and not far from Sandringham House.
We provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based healthcare services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire.
We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers, approximately 530 beds, and a helipad for air ambulances. We work with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services, including as part of regional partnership and network models of care, such as the trauma network.
In February 2022 the significant progress that has been made at QEH was recognised by the Care Quality Commission who rated the Trust as 'Good' in all of the core services they inspected. They recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has approximately 500 beds on a single site. This post offers a chance to live and work in a beautiful region with its own distinctive mix of urban, rural and coastal landscapes, all within easy reach of Norwich, Cambridge, London and the Midlands. We serve an expanding population of around 300,000, which, can increase substantially during the summer through the popularity of the surrounding countryside and beaches for leisure and holidays.
We are committed to an ethos of continuous quality improvement, a fair and just learning culture and providing you with opportunities for you to flourish within a flexible working environment.
Team QEH is one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK and we work in close collaboration with the National Institute for Health and Care Research. We are proud to have a new dedicated Education and Innovation Centre with high tech facilities which is yours to use as you wish.
Our Trust values of Kindness, Wellness and Fairness have been developed to guide behaviours of all colleagues.
We have a free dedicated 24-7 Employee Assistance Programme to help you manage all of life's issues -from debt, legal, bereavement support to mental and physical wellbeing with trained counsellors.
We are a Disability Confident and Menopause Friendly employer and have achieved the Gold standard of the Armed Forces Covenant.
Team QEH has a flourishing and diverse range of networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+, Carers and Spirituality, so you can always find support and shared purpose with colleagues.
For further details about this vacancy, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has approximately 500 beds on a single site. This post offers a chance to live and work in a beautiful region with its own distinctive mix of urban, rural and coastal landscapes, all within easy reach of Norwich, Cambridge, London and the Midlands. We serve an expanding population of around 300,000, which, can increase substantially during the summer through the popularity of the surrounding countryside and beaches for leisure and holidays.
We are committed to an ethos of continuous quality improvement, a fair and just learning culture and providing you with opportunities for you to flourish within a flexible working environment.
Team QEH is one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK and we work in close collaboration with the National Institute for Health and Care Research. We are proud to have a new dedicated Education and Innovation Centre with high tech facilities which is yours to use as you wish.
Our Trust values of Kindness, Wellness and Fairness have been developed to guide behaviours of all colleagues.
We have a free dedicated 24-7 Employee Assistance Programme to help you manage all of life's issues -from debt, legal, bereavement support to mental and physical wellbeing with trained counsellors.
We are a Disability Confident and Menopause Friendly employer and have achieved the Gold standard of the Armed Forces Covenant.
Team QEH has a flourishing and diverse range of networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+, Carers and Spirituality, so you can always find support and shared purpose with colleagues.
For further details about this vacancy, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications/training and professional development
Essential
- Educated to BSc level in clinical role, e.g. radiography
- Masters degree or equivalent experience in governance, safety and accreditation process
- Knowledge of a good range of work procedures and practices in relation to governance
- Prior experience with the imaging accreditation process
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in governance and safety practice within a clinical environment
- Extensive knowledge and experience of working in a radiology department, with in-depth knowledge of procedures and processes
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience in clinical audit/benchmarking
Skills, abilities, and knowledge
Essential
- Significant knowledge of governance, safety and risk standards in Radiology, including national and local standards.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information and delegate tasks effectively.
- Experience in undertaking presentations and public speaking
- Ability to analyse large amounts of complex information on audits, statistics, and other governance procedures
- Knowledge of current Governance issues, NHS Agenda and Targets
- Employs a methodical and systematic approach to work involving close attention to detail
- Ability to draft succinct protocols, procedures and policies
- Skills in the presentation of data with well-developed IT skills
- Track record of achievement
Desirable
- Evidence of project management
Aptitude
Essential
- Can influence and negotiate with others at all levels
- Able to manage priorities under pressures and work to deadlines whilst maintaining a high standard of accuracy
- Able to use own initiative and work without close supervision within agreed protocols
- Effective organisational and leadership skills
- Ability to facilitate a positive team spirit and be supportive of team members, acting as a role model
- Effective role model, demonstrating QEH's Core values and behaviours
Person Specification
Qualifications/training and professional development
Essential
- Educated to BSc level in clinical role, e.g. radiography
- Masters degree or equivalent experience in governance, safety and accreditation process
- Knowledge of a good range of work procedures and practices in relation to governance
- Prior experience with the imaging accreditation process
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in governance and safety practice within a clinical environment
- Extensive knowledge and experience of working in a radiology department, with in-depth knowledge of procedures and processes
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience in clinical audit/benchmarking
Skills, abilities, and knowledge
Essential
- Significant knowledge of governance, safety and risk standards in Radiology, including national and local standards.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information and delegate tasks effectively.
- Experience in undertaking presentations and public speaking
- Ability to analyse large amounts of complex information on audits, statistics, and other governance procedures
- Knowledge of current Governance issues, NHS Agenda and Targets
- Employs a methodical and systematic approach to work involving close attention to detail
- Ability to draft succinct protocols, procedures and policies
- Skills in the presentation of data with well-developed IT skills
- Track record of achievement
Desirable
- Evidence of project management
Aptitude
Essential
- Can influence and negotiate with others at all levels
- Able to manage priorities under pressures and work to deadlines whilst maintaining a high standard of accuracy
- Able to use own initiative and work without close supervision within agreed protocols
- Effective organisational and leadership skills
- Ability to facilitate a positive team spirit and be supportive of team members, acting as a role model
- Effective role model, demonstrating QEH's Core values and behaviours
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).
