Job summary
Employer heading
Research and Radiation Protection Lead
Band 8A
Job overview
The post holder will take the radiographic lead for Research and Radiation Protection across the organization, ensuring that all sites adhere to IR(ME)R 2017 and IRR 2017 regulations. The post holder will establish and maintain systems for the management of research activities in imaging that support wider research across the Trust. Participating in the wider management of research across the Trust, including participation in research management committees. They will also take a lead in the implementation of specific service developments identified as a result of research projects or evidence based medicine. They will provide leadership and organisation of the local Radiation Protection Supervisors in each site, ensuring that services provided are safe and meet regulatory standards.
Main duties of the job
They will provide leadership support for their team and lead on quality and radiation protection service improvements.
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.
Working for our organisation
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 here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- DCR or Degree in Radiography
- Postgraduate qualification in specialised imaging
Desirable criteria
- Masters or higher degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Senior radiographer with demonstrable experience in medical imaging with knowledge of x-ray, CT, MR and knowledge of the professional role of an imaging radiographers
- Knowledge and experience in imaging in oncology
- Experience in leading large teams
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the research process within the Trust and how that relates to the NHS and of the Research Governance process
- Knowledge of imaging requirements for research (e.g. Resist Criteria)
- Knowledge of research report writing for publication and experience in having published research findings.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of IR(ME)R and IRR Regulations
- Knowledge of HSE and CQC guidance
Skills
Essential criteria
- IT skills. (Word, excel, RIS< image handling)
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to motivate and influence/persuade others and change cultures
- Good personal time management and organisation
- Ability to work independently and be self-motivated
- Ability to prioritise
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to implement change
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dan Ordidge
- Job title
- Head of Operations Imaging
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 529 3426
- Additional information
Daniel Ordidge
Head of Operations- Imaging
0151 529 3275
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