Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• 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 specialty modalities for Radiology registrars, radiographers and radiographic students including those who visit the department on work experience
• 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 on a daily basis 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 procedures to ensure the line areas deliver the required activity within budget.
• Produce reports and business cases which will explain multiple potentially complex options and may present several possible solutions.
• Monitor and manage waiting lists with regard to relevant care pathways, e.g. Cancer two week waits, flexing activity to meet demand and escalating potential issues in a timely manner to the Head of Operations.
• Manage staff fairly and equitably to include recruitment, staff leave, promoting attendance at work and managing absence, staff discipline, capability and grievance issues in line with organisational policies. To support line managers with relevant aspects of management tasks including staff rotas; providing leadership and support for staff development including appraisals.
• Actively pursue individual CPD and maintain specialist awareness of imaging development, and promote wider education/CPD.
• Communicate with patients and professional colleagues in situations that may involve dealing with distressing circumstances. The ability is needed to deal with sensitive information and act in a professional and caring manner towards both patients and staff.
• Maintain, develop and improve communication across the multidisciplinary team and develop systems for involving service users and their representatives to aid service development.
• Manage risk effectively in collaboration with the Radiology Governance Superintendent and Clinical audit Lead, ensuring Trust and statutory health & safety requirements are met, developing locally agreed protocols and policies and taking action to ensure adherence with Trust policies, guidelines, protocols and professional regulations. 
• Oversee relevant quality assurance programmes within cross sectional imaging to National/local standards and to be responsible for the submission of data to the relevant bodies. 
• Arrange and define local reporting systems compliant with legislation for DATIX reporting, incorporating accidental/erroneous exposures compliant with IRMER, including the resultant action planning to better manage systems
• Participate in on call and out of hour duties if service requires

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