Job overview
Do you want to be part of the Radiology team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals? We are looking for a Radiology Specialty Business Manager to manage Radiology at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Are you passionate about delivering high quality patient care? If so, then this fantastic opportunity could be for you.
You manage Radiology within the acute trust and provide services for primary and secondary care, including tertiary services as well as supporting some services across Lancashire and South Cumbria, such as thrombectomy, interventional radiology, PET CT, etc.
You will work with the team to ensure operational performance targets are met.
In this pivotal role, you will provide strong leadership and effective management to both the performance and capacity teams, driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.
You will work in alignment with the Trust’s corporate objectives, playing an active part in shaping and delivering high-quality health services that meet the needs of patients and the community.
Living the Trust’s values will be at the heart of your role. You will lead by example, fostering a culture where autonomous teams and individuals are empowered, engaged, and motivated. Through your guidance and support, you will help build a committed workforce dedicated to delivering outstanding care with compassion and integrity every day.
Main duties of the job
Your role is to lead and manage the patient pathways within the Specialty Business Units (SBUs), ensuring that available resources are utilised effectively and efficiently to deliver services that meet the highest standards of quality, best practice, and performance targets.
You will work with a dedicated and diverse team including the Radiography Professional Lead, Modality Leads, Performance Manager, Clinical Director, Radiologists, PACS team, etc. Collaboration is key — from a clinical standpoint, you will work closely and seamlessly with the specialities to drive continuous improvement and deliver exceptional patient care.
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 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 and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To lead and manage the patient pathways within the Specialty business units (SBU) ensuring the best use of available resources to provide efficient and effective delivery of all services in line with best practice, quality standards and performance targets
To develop a culture that encourages the use of initiative, individual and team responsibility and open communications.
To provide effective line management
To effectively manage the Directorate’s budget and finance
To manage self and workload in a way that ensures the continued support of others
See attached Job Description for full details
Person specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential criteria
1. Diploma in NHS Management, Degree (or equivalent clinical qualification) or equivalent experience.
2. Appropriate professional management qualification
3. Participation in continuing professional development to improve and update specialist knowledge
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
4. Experience of operational management in NHS
5. Detailed understanding and experience of the operation of acute hospital services and performance targets
6. Experience of managing a budget.
7. Experience of successful project management.