Service Manager/Superintendent Radiographer - London, United Kingdom - Wales Medicines Strategy Group

Description

Main area Dental Grade
NHS AfC:
Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time hours per week (Possible evening clinics) Job ref 196-LIS8343
Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Guys & St Thomas Hospital Town London Salary £58,698 - £65,095 per annum inc HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 24/04/2024 23:59 Interview date 07/05/2024

NHS AfC:
Band 8a
Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts.

We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy's is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016.

As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

St Thomas' has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London.

It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services.

We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it.

Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations.

Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease.

Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres.

In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care.

We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.

We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care.

The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS.

We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Have you got the skills and experience to work in one of London's leading teaching hospitals? The Dental directorate at Guy's and St Thomas' are seeking highly motivated and experienced Superintendent Radiographer to lead a team of radiographers to deliver patient centred services.

This is a permanent full-time position based mainly at Guy's Hospital with some work within St Thomas hospital.
The post holder will be responsible for Dental Radiography. The duties include leading the Dental Radiography Service, ensuring it is delivered to a high and efficient standard.

The principal duties and responsibilities of the post-holder are to ensure the delivery of Dental Radiography services across the Guy's and St Thomas' and ECH hospital sites in a wide range of clinical environments as well as to a diversity of patient presentations.

The post holder will be experienced in providing training and support to other radiographic staff and students working in these areas.

In addition, skills necessary for helping patients with Dental phobia or strong gag reflexes while undergoing Dental Imaging.

The post requires the management of a multidisciplinary team ranging from admin staff, Dental Nurses to liaising closely with Radiologists and other practitioners.

The post holder will be the responsible person for safety within the Dental Radiology department.

To perform a wide range of Dental Radiographic examinations and act as the expert when technical and examination information is required by referrers.

To act as an individual practitioner for Dental X-Ray, sialography and CBCT scanning necessitating workload prioritisation, evaluating and escalating patients where clinically necessary to appropriate clinicians or Radiologists.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals – Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts.

We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King's Health Partners – we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.

We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

To be responsible for the day to day running of the Dental Radiography department, including its satellite units at Guy's Hospital, St Thomas's Hospital and Evelina Children's Hospital.

To act as the line manager for the Radiographers, Dental Nurses and Dental Imaging Support Staff working within the Dental Radiography department.

To be the RPS for the Dental Directorate, liaises directly with RPA/Medical physicist to arrange regular QA testing of equipment and updating local rules and radiation risk assessments.

To be responsible for ensuring IR(ME)R compliance throughout the Dental Directorate through collaboration with other RPS and highlighting issues and concerns
To appraise and actively develop staff within the Dental Radiography team. This includes managing annual leave and other all other absence management.
To be the Responsible Person for Dental Radiography.

This duty involves being responsible for overall safety within the Dental Radiology environment on behalf of the employer and ensuring safe practice is followed in accordance with national guidelines.

To teach Dental Radiography, via lectures to other staff groups such as KCL students, and apprentices.
To vet Imaging requests as required for dental within department SOP

To assess the clinical justification of dental referrals in line with both national regulations, the Public Health England (PHE) and Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK) Selection Criteria for Dental Radiography, IR(M)R 2017, IRR17 and local protocols.

To make a balanced judgement on when to call in a service engineer, taking into account the effect on the normal running of the dental service.

To take responsibility for the management of Radiographers, Dental Nurses and Dental Imaging support staff working within the dental department, including managing absence, staff development mandatory training and annual leave.

BSc Hons Degree in Radiology or the Diploma of the College of Radiographers (DCR(R))
A post graduate qualification or extensive clinical experience at Masters level or equivalent.
State registration with the Health Professions Council UK
Extensive knowledge and expertise in dental x-ray Scanning processes, techniques and equipment and application.
Extensive and wide ranging experience in dental x-ray/CBCT scanning previously having operated in a senior role.
Experience with complex problem solving in dental x-ray/ Scanning.
Evidence of multiple radiographer and non - radiographic staff training strategies.
Experience of giving presentations and writing reports for managerial, radiographic, clinical or technical personnel.
Project Management experience and being able to drive forward changes and upgrades
Able to demonstrate a wide technical knowledge of x-ray/dental techniques and application in the clinical environment.
Able to work to short deadlines and have a flexible approach to workload
Able to apply knowledge of relevant legislation (Data Protection, Health and Safety, Ionising Radiation) when devising or applying protocols and procedures
Guy's and St Thomas'celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients.

We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs.

We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study's at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients.

This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients.

We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual's personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service.

Please apply for this post by clicking "Apply Online Now."

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.

Name Samantha Salaver Job title Head of Dental Nursing Email address Additional information Roger Savill Head of Radiology Roger.