General X-ray and Ultrasound Superintendent Radiographer

Employer University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Employer type NHS

Site University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire

Town Coventry

Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum

Salary period Yearly

Closing 16/04/2025 23:59

Interview date 14/05/2025

General X-ray and Ultrasound Superintendent Radiographer

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

Job Summary

• To work collaboratively with other operational and clinical senior managers within the Imaging Group Management team to develop, support and deliver operational and strategic objectives within own specialist area.
• To contribute to future departmental development including service and business planning and equipment purchase.
• To provide expert leadership within the General X-ray (across sites) and Ultrasound Unit and maintain the highest level of expertise and competency within the specialties.
• To manage the effective delivery and operation of the plain x-ray and ultrasound services within Radiology, and to provide necessary information to assist the strategic direction of plain film and ultrasound imaging within the Trust.
• To monitor and control finance and is accountable for expenditure in own areas of responsibility. To manage a timely efficient and cost effective service within allocated resources. Act as budget holder responsible for stock control and purchase of consumables and necessary equipment for the service within budgetary limits.

**Please be advised that interviews for this role are due to take place on 14th May 2025**

Main duties of the job

• Maintain a high degree of clinical skills, expertise and competence and act as a role model for staff groups, monitoring and maintaining standards of care. To provide clinical expertise and supervision, including training and mentorship of all staff groups within own scope of practice.
• Manage the cross site clinical workload within the Department adapting the service to respond to long and short-term demands, rearranging work lists in case of equipment failure and being responsive to the inconvenience caused to patients, so ensuring the daily workload is organised in line with clinical priorities.
• Collaborate with the senior management team and Clinical Leads to enable the efficient and effective provision of the Imaging Service across UHCW NHS Trust. To take operational responsibility daily for the management of activity, resources, people and information to achieve agreed levels and standards of service delivery.
• Support the long-term strategic planning for own area/s of responsibility.
• Participate in request validation, vetting and justification (weighing the potential benefit of a medical exposure against any possible harm) within own scope of practice using clinical judgement & / or departmental protocols they have written in consultation with consultant radiologists.
• Manage the pay and non-pay budgets within own areas of responsibility in accordance with Trust standing financial instructions and financial procedure.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Result Areas and Performance

• Act as an advisor to Radiologists and referring clinicians providing specialist advice.
• Ensure the provision of the highest standards of patient care and contribute to the management of the Radiology Department.
• Work closely within a multidisciplinary team providing a high-quality radiology service to patients and staff.
• Ensure Clinical Governance protocols are complied with, records are maintained as required and corrective action is taken where required. Working collaboratively with Radiology Governance Superintendent and Clinical Audit Lead to ensure patient safety and quality of care within own specialist area (Governance and audit).
• Produce business cases for the strategic development of the service.
• Be accountable for achieving quality and performance indicators, reporting to Imaging Management Board on specific KPI’s for the cross sectional service.
• Keep abreast of current imaging developments/issues and bring to the attention of the Head of Operations any issues requiring action.
• Take the lead in writing policy and procedures in General X-ray (across sites) and Ultrasound. These will directly impact on patient referral to treatment targets, patient pathways whilst on wards and in other departments and specialist wards.
• Provide line management of staff within your specialty area(s) including staff rotas, recruitment, appraisal, CPD and performance.
• Be responsible for ensuring suitable arrangements exist for the training program within the modalities for Radiology registrars, radiographers and radiographic students including those who visit the department on work experience.

Person specification

Qualifications

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Experience

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Knowledge

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Skills

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Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we’ll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.

Depending on your level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.

All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Name David White

Job title Head of Operations – Imaging

Email address David.White2@uhcw.nhs.uk

Telephone number 024 7696 7101

Hollie Bateman

Interim PA - Senior Management Team Imaging

Email address Hollie.Bateman@uhcw.nhs.uk

Telephone number 024 7696 7101