Job summary
- Main area
- Radiology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Cross-site working)
- Job ref
- 318-25-T0463
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide (Gloucestershire Royal Hospital/Cheltenham General Hospital)
- Town
- Gloucestershire
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 (pro rata if part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Interventional Radiology Operational & Performance Manager (& IGIS)
Band 8a
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
Job overview
Interventional Radiology Operational & Performance Manager (& IGIS), Band 8a
Are you looking for a new and exciting opportunity to join a proliferate fast-paced Interventional Radiology (IR) service?
Do you have the drive and passion to support a fantastic unique initiative, collaborating across 3 divisions and services in the Image-Guided Interventional Service - IGIS (Interventional Radiology, Cardiology & Vascular teams)?
The Operational & Performance Manager will be responsible for providing operational and performance management of the IR speciality, supporting the Radiology Service Line.
They will be supporting and driving forward collaborative working across the 3 large specialties making up the Image Guided Interventional Service, striving to ensure all 3 specialties are delivering efficient ways of working in a co-located space within Imaging and across the hybrid theatres.
Additional working pattern details: Cross-site working
Main duties of the job
Interventional Radiology
- Operational delivery of the Interventional speciality
- Analysis of service performance to proactively identify key strengths and understand areas requiring improvements
- Line management of junior managers and team leaders
- Contributing to strategic planning of the IR service, alongside the Clinical Lead and Radiology Services Manager
- Accountable for delivery against key performance standards relating to IR (including DM01, 18-week RTT & 28/31/62 day cancer diagnosis
Image-Guided Interventional Service (IGIS)
- Working collaboratively across divisions with the Image-guided interventional service (IGIS) triumvirate to achieve the trust’s ‘Fit for the Future’ strategic plan, and associated delivery to streamline services, achieve efficiencies, and provide the best care for our patients
- Consistently strive for excellence in service development and embed innovation across the 3 specialties of IGIS to improve patient pathways
- Embed and deliver a robust governance framework across the IGIS triumvirate, relevant to the shared services and estate
Working for our organisation
We take pride in placing people at the centre of everything we do, working together as a united team. Driven by a shared ambition to continually grow, develop, and learn, we recognise and value every contribution. By combining our experience and skills, we not only support our vibrant, diverse communities, but also support one another.
With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from an excellent package that includes exclusive benefits, flexible working opportunities and the chance to gain valuable experience in one of our innovative hospitals. As well as generous annual leave allowance, access to the excellent NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, discounts at local shops and restaurants, access to two on-site nurseries, discounted public transport, reward and recognition and a range of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key result areas include:
- Operational & strategic planning
- Management & Leadership
- Financial & Information Management
- Quality & governance
- Education & training
Please see details in Job Description document
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant postgraduate education to Master’s level
- Extensive management training at postgraduate level or the equivalent experience gained through a management role
Experience
Essential criteria
- Appropriate experience of working in the NHS in a management post, with experience of managing services, including exposure to solving a range of operational and strategic problems
- Experience of delivering against set objectives and achieving key organisational targets, demonstrating continuous performance improvement
Desirable criteria
- Proven teamwork and leadership skills, with experience of managing large groups of multidisciplinary staff
- Experience of leading change and service development in a complex care environment
Knowledge, skills, abilities
Essential criteria
- Abilities in advanced service redesign and development to provide high quality care and treatment to patients
- Able to demonstrate effective working relationships and communication systems at all levels involving both internal and external partners, such as Service Lines / Divisions / ICBs and members of the public
- Ability to develop, critically analyse and communicate ideas clearly and concisely within the organisation
- Ability to utilise data and analyse information and trends to identify service needs
- The ability to think creatively in identifying innovative solutions to improve and develop
- Proven ability in managing operational performance in achieving key targets including budget management
- Excellent verbal, written, presentation and communication skills at all levels
Desirable criteria
- Recent demonstrable success of delivering operational performance against key targets within a prescribed timetable and to pre-determined standards of quality
- Recent success in influencing and delivering successful service redesign/modernisation projects
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gemma Bettington
- Job title
- Radiology Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 5094
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