Diagnostic Radiography Professional Lead | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a highly motivated radiographer who is able to provide professional leadership, guidance, development and support for registered radiographers and unregistered clinical support staff within Diagnostic Radiography at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as our Diagnostic Radiography Professional Lead? The Diagnostic Radiology Specialty Business Unit at LTHTR operates and delivers services across three sites. These services include CT, MRI, Plain Film Imaging, DEXA, Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine, Fluoroscopy, Breast Imaging, PET CT, Neurointerventional Radiology and Interventional Radiology. The Diagnostic Radiography Professional Lead is an interesting role which brings opportunities and challenges. Are you an experienced radiographer, used to working in a large department, enthusiastic and with a mind for problem solving? As the professional lead for all radiology related issues across the Trust, the main aspects of the role include:

• Providing professional leadership, guidance, development and support for all registered radiographers and unregistered clinical support staff in radiology.
• To support the delivery of a high quality and safe service with a positive working experience for staff and service users.
• Ensuring professional standards are met, and delivery of care is in line with best practice standards.
• Working with partners in education
• Ensuring the delivery of high quality evidence based practice in their profession across the organisation in line with national and local strategy and policy, Trust priorities, IRMER regulations, CQC standards, NICE guidance, safety, quality and clinical governance frameworks
• Ensuring the radiology department is appropriately accredited to provide a proactive developmental environment for all qualified and trainee radiographers. Lead on the professional succession planning within radiology
• Representing and promoting diagnostic radiography as a profession in the Trust, the ICS and the North West region
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria. Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns. You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path. You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of. This really is an amazing opportunity to lead your profession in a large acute organisation, delivering specialist services both locally and regionally.As the Diagnostic Professional Radiography Lead you will support all registered diagnostic radiographers and unregistered diagnostic radiography. You must be an autonomous expert clinically focussed practitioner in Radiography and be capable of using transferrable knowledge and skill to professionally support staff with their clinical caseloads. You will work across professional and organisational boundaries to expand and develop Radiography services, therefore successful experience of networking and influencing are essential. The role is diverse and no 2 days are the same; you will drive forward agendas in areas such as workforce, safety & quality and service transformation. You will oversee the education and professional development for all diagnostic radiographers, ensuring they have opportunities to develop and progress. You will maintain the current strong links with the local HEI to support delivery of education and training programmes for all trainees. In this role you will be responsible for the assurance of high standards of clinical governance and demonstrable best practice across Diagnostic Radiography, ensuring high quality outcomes for patients. You will promote a culture of continuous improvement using local and national data to enhance clinical practice, service delivery, efficiency and performance. If you feel ready to take on this opportunity, then we look forward to hearing from you. Please make contact for an informal discussion or email with any queries. We are more than happy to schedule a MS teams call or site visit for anyone interested.