Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Deputy to the Superintendent Radiographer within the CT and MRI department.
• Take on the Superintendent duties in times of absence, sickness or annual leave.
• Be able to work in a job share role, maintaining high levels of communication and professionalism.
• Maintain a confidential and discreet approach where required.
• Organise the day-to-day workload to accommodate clinical priorities, negotiating changes to the planned work rota where required.
• Manage all aspects of staff absences including sickness plus granting, recording or refusing annual leave.
• Hold Return to Work Interviews and complete the relevant online form with staff following periods of sickness absence.
• Make decisions regarding staff levels, skill mix, annual leave requests, shift swaps and WLI allocation, updating Health Roster as necessary.
• Manage bank and agency staff, assign duties where required and ensure up to date competencies.
• Liaise with locum agencies for booking of their staff and update our staff rota and capacity & demand records. 
• Add PP and WLI payments to Health Roster and finalise end of month.
• Schedule the annual appraisals of all CT and MRI staff members and appraise staff to ensure on-going competencies.
• Provide and monitor training for new staff, including completion of local induction and additional relevant competencies.
• Record and schedule mandatory training dates for CT & MRI staff.
• Maintain and keep up to date records of all Staff Competencies.
• Undertake IV Cannulation and IV therapy assessments for new and existing staff.
• Investigate and respond to LERN forms from both our staff and those from other hospital wards and departments.
• Schedule, attend and chair staff meetings.
• Be willing to have difficult conversations with staff when required around sensitive subjects, such as poor performance, timekeeping, appearance, not being able to have leave when desired. 
• Be willing to talk to patients who raise complaints and help de-escalate and resolve difficult situations.
• Create and update SOPs, policies, PGDs and other departmental protocols. 
• Report faults to manufacturers and schedule breakdown fixes and routine maintenance visits, updating our records including capacity impacts. 
• Ensure departmental audits are undertaken and updated on the Radiology Audit Schedule, such as compliance audit, document acknowledgement, extravasaton 
• Shortlist and interview prospective radiographers and RDAs into our team.
• Work with the team at Poole with the aim of service improvement and amalgamation of systems.
• Attend the monthly Quality and Risk Forum with a report from CT & MRI.
• Attend meetings with the UHD Extravasation Group (3-4 times per year)