Lead Radiographer | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L7 8XP |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6264666/287-DSS-16-24-C |
Summary
A training role will be considered for those who would like to step up to a senior management role but do not fully meet the person specification.
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 Radiographer 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.
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.
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 herehttps://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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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/ AHP’s 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 can’t be resolved
Contributing to reviewing business and service performance, reporting on Nursing/AHP performance to the senior leadership team.
Assist Head of Nursing/ AHP’s 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 /AHP’s 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.
This advert closes on Friday 10 May 2024