Nuclear Medicine Site Lead (ORC)

We are seeking an enthusiastic, hardworking and talented person to lead our team of Nuclear Medicine Technologists and Radiographers on the Oxford Road Campus, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT). This is an exciting opportunity for an established and experienced specialist in the area of Nuclear Medicine imaging to lead and manage a large and diverse team, ensuring that the care and service provided is the best it can be.

You will join our friendly, collaborative and multidisciplinary team, providing a service to referrers from across the region. The role demands experience of leading a team through change, excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to interact with a range of disciplines along with excellent patient communication. You should have an awareness and aptitude for excellent patient focused care.

This is a leadership post within the directorate of Nuclear Medicine, you will be expected to act as a line manager, feed into the senior management structure for the directorate and maintain some clinical competencies and HCPC or RCT registration as part of your employment with the trust., The site lead will support the Directorate Manager, Clinical Director and Chief Radiopharmacist with operational management of services within the directorate. You will work closely with a team of senior Medical Technologists, delegating tasks appropriately to oversee the efficient day-to-day running of the clinical services provided by the Nuclear Medicine Directorate.

It will be necessary to liaise with Nuclear Medicine site leads across the trust and with admin and senior leadership to ensure effective waiting list management, utilising the resources available.As site lead you will be responsible for line management and professional development of the technologist group and for representing needs of this group within the senior leadership team. You will contribute to activities around service delivery, clinical governance, resource management, performance, communication and engagement.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.