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Paediatric Cross Sectional Lead Radiographer
The closing date is 02 September 2025
Manchester Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Paediatric Cross Sectional Lead Radiographer for the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital site
The successful candidate should have significant experience in leading and developing an MRI and CT service, teaching and training more junior staff and in service management.
You will be expected to undertake both clinical work and manage the service within Royal Manchester Children's Hospital across 1 MRI Scanner and 1 CT Scanner. The successful candidate will be expected to deputise for the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital site lead when required.
Safety is of paramount importance, and you will act as the MRI responsible person for MRI and the Radiation Protection Supervisor (RPS) for CT, always ensuring the highest safety standards within the department. The successful applicant will also take a lead within the department for the safe administration of all contrast and medicines to patients, in line with the PGDs in place, and ensure all other staff within the department are doing the same.
This is a full time post worked
Informal visits/enquiries are recommended before applying for this post
Main duties of the job
Professional Leadership and Management
Act as lead radiographer for the MR and CT imaging services at RMCH, seeking ways to develop the service. Provide expert support and leadership for the other senior radiographers and support staff working within the area.
Working collaboratively with the site lead, manage the day-to-day radiographic staffing levels within the departments, ensuring all areas have sufficient staff to provide the service.
Work closely with the Divisional modality leads for MRI and CT, and other CT and MR modality site leads in the trust to ensure a consistent approach to all aspects of the service across the division to ensure optimum efficiency and effective and supportive management at all times.
In collaboration with the modality site leads, operations and waiting list managers, manage the demand and capacity for both OP and IP referrals. Ensure effective processes are in place to monitor the scheduling and prevention of cancellation of scans, initiating any action plans that will assist the service and meet corporate and government targets.
Lead on the training of all staff within MR and CT, to ensure they are competent and supported in delivering a high-quality service. This includes managing the competency based clinical training program for all new cross sectional radiographers, local induction for new starters, identifying training needs for existing staff, supporting regular CPD opportunities and ensuring mandatory training is completed annually.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & 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 30,000 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.
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
* BSc Diagnostic Radiography or DCR
* HCPC registered
* Management Qualification
* Teaching qualification
Experience
* Extensive experience as a CT and MRI Radiographer
* Evidence of multi-modality knowledge
* Experience as a senior Radiographer with experience in leading and supervising juniors
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Understand recent developments in the NHS.
* Extensive experience of teaching and supervising undergraduate and qualified Radiographers and trainee Radiographers
* Able to demonstrate leadership involvement in quality improvement, transformation and innovation
Personal Attributes
* Able to comply with the Trust's moving and handling guidelines subject to reasonable adjustment under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
* Flexible and adaptable to meet the needs of the service
* Ability to demonstrate empathy and understanding in pressured or difficult situations with service users or staff
* Ability to commute between sites
* Ability to respond and adapt to constructive feedback and deliver the same where appropriate.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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