Clinical Imaging Assistant Team Lead - Band 3

United Lincolnshire Hospitals; Lincoln; Híbrido; GBP 26 000 - 27 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

NHS Pension

Annual Leave 27–33 days

Bank working

Flexible working

Free on-site parking

Cycle2Work

Resumo da oferta

United Lincolnshire Hospitals is seeking a Clinical Imaging Assistant Team Lead (Band 3) at Lincoln. The role supports Radiology teams, coordinates imaging services across community diagnostic centres, and ensures stock and non-stock items are managed efficiently.

The post requires 37.5 hours weekly with 7-day working, and offers flexibility with part-time or job-share options. A competitive salary is offered with a strong NHS benefits package.

Qualificações

• GCSE English & Maths at grade 4 or above (or equivalent).
• First Aid certificate is required.
• Basic life support is required.
• Experience of leading a team is essential.
• Experience of managing stock and coordinating work.
• Experience in Radiology Department settings.
• Experience in reception work within a hospital environment.

Responsabilidades

• Provide effective support to Radiologists, Radiographers, Sonographers and Nursing Staff including assistance with procedures to deliver Radiology services 7 days per week.
• Supervise clinical imaging staff on a daily basis, ensuring training and development needs are met.
• Coordinate rotas (including annual leave / low level absence) for the relevant team.
• Provide materials management for stock and non-stocks, ensuring a continuous supply of goods.
• Ensure goods receipting is completed accurately and in time; be a point of contact for Supplier/NHSSC enquiries.
• Working hours range 07:30 to 20:30; may include longer days and weekend work.

Conhecimentos

Team leadership

Stock management

Patient care

Radiology department experience

Reception duties

CRIS knowledge

Patient positioning

X-ray requests entry

Basic life support

Formação académica

GCSE English & Maths (grade 4+)

First Aid certificate

Basic Life Support

Ferramentas

CRIS system

Radiology information systems

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Clinical Imaging Assistant Team Lead - Band 3

NHS AfC: Band 3

Main area Clinical Imaging Assistant - Team Lead Grade NHS AfC: Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share

37.5 hours per week (7 day working) Job ref 357-LN-245-26-QIA2727-C

Site Community Diagnostic Centre Town Lincoln Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/10/2026 23:59

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

• Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.
• Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.
• Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So,what is in it for you?

• Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

• Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
• Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
• Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
• Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
• Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
• NHS Pension:A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
• Bank working:The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there ismore.

• Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
• Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
• Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
• Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
• Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Job overview

Interviews will be face to face Only - We are unable to provide a teams interview.

From the rolling Wolds in the north, 30-mile stretch of golden sands on the east coast and the agricultural Fenlands of the south; The United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest hospital Trusts in the country. Providing a comprehensive range of hospital based medical, surgical, paediatric, obstetric, and gynaecological care to over 800,000 people across the rural county of Lincolnshire. Operating 4 main hospital sites we deliver services in a range of other settings employing over 8,000 staff.

Radiology provides services to the county from 10 sites in state of the art facilities with modern equipment using the latest technologies.

About the Role:-

Based at one of our new community diagnostic centres, your role will be to work within and lead the team of clinical imaging assistant working throughout Radiology at the community diagnostic centres. T

Provide materials management for stock and non-stocks, ensuring a continuous supply of goods, in line with the Trusts materials management system.

You will need the ability to travel across sites independently due to cross site travel. Radiology Pool Car available for use.

Main duties of the job

To provide effective support to Radiologists, Radiographers, Sonographers and Nursing Staff including assistance with procedures to deliver Radiology services 7 days per week.

To supervise clinical imaging staff on a daily basis, ensuring training and development needs are met and staff adhere to the Trusts required behaviours and policies.

To coordinate rotas (including annual leave / low level absence) for the relevant team.

Provide materials management for stock and non-stocks, ensuring a continuous supply of goods, in line with the Trusts materials management system.

To ensure all goods receipting is completed accurately and to time for all non-stock items. To be a point of contact for Supplier/NHSSC enquiries

The operating hours of the service will range between 07.30 hrs to 20.300hrs. There may be a requirement to work longer days.

Shift patterns may vary over 3, 4 or 5 days and will incorporate weekend working.

This vacancy requires an excellent communicator, able to deal with people on all levels. They should be empathetic and level headed and able to cope with situations as they arise. The role is varied and evolving and the person appointed will become a key member of our team.

Working for our organisation

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What should you do next?

Person specification

Qualifications

• GCSE English & Maths at grade 4 or above (or equivalent)
• First Aid certificate
• Basic life support
• Experience of leading a team
• Experience of managing stock
• Supervising, mentoring or supporting colleagues
• Taking responsibility for coordinating work
• Multi-disciplinary Team
• Experience of recent direct patient care
• Experience within a Radiology Department
• Previous experience of reception work
• Working experience in a hospital environment or health care environment
• Effective time management
• Track record of delivering service improvement
• CRIS Knowledge, knowledge of radiology information systems.
• Patient positioning for CT/MRI/US/X-ray
• Entering patient x-ray requests onto the electronic system
• Interventional Procedures Training
• Cannulation Training
• Basic Patient Monitoring

Specifc Requirements

• Able to liaise effectively with all professional and non-professionals
• Interest in working in the Radiology department
• Able to work flexibly as required
• Be able to easily commute between sites

ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” if the below applies to you.

You are:

• A Veteran
• A Military Reserve
• Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces

All new employees will be subject to a charge for the DBS check that is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by ULTH and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a 3 month period.

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Please note, for applicants with previous NHS service: If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.

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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.