Lead Radiographer

NHS National Services Scotland; Kirkcaldy; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the General Leads team at the Victoria Hospital Kirkcaldy. You are required to provide strong leadership within this clinical area.

Other responsibilities include coordinating sickness absence, annual leave, and out of hours working for Radiographers, Student Radiographers, Assistant Practitioners, and Radiology HCSWs.

To work in a leadership capacity to the Radiology Health Care Support Workers (HCSW) team.

You must possess a high level of NHS clinical expertise and experience, along with a high level of skills and knowledge to support your team in providing a high-quality diagnostic general and paediatric imaging service covering PH2 general x-ray service and the NTC.

You will be required to manage workload and give clinical leadership to the radiology team, ensuring service cover for the General Department while carrying a significant clinical workload. Alongside justifying and performing Radiographic examinations, you will deliver direct care to assist in the management of patients referred from clinicians and other referrers.

You will drive and implement change with a focus on service improvement.

Deputise for the X-ray Clinical Service Manager in her absence and support the management team and other clinical leads in meeting operational and strategic targets.

Participation in Hospital Safety Huddle, Department Lead On Call, and contributing to Public Holiday cover is an expectation of this post.

Rooms are all newly equipped with Fuji Digital general units, Fuji, Samsung, and Carestream DR mobile units, Siemens/Phillips C-arm image intensifiers, and Carestream National PACS.

The department supports role extension and actively encourages CPD with protected study time.

For informal enquiries, please contact Joanne Hogarth, Clinical Service Manager on 01592 643355 extension 28330.

Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.