Deputy Department Leader

Integrated Care System; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

An opportunity exists for an experienced Deputy Department Leader at a leading NHS Foundation Trust. The position involves ensuring high-quality clinical illustration services, including managing medical photography and electronic patient records, within a team-centered environment that values patient care.

Qualifications

• Qualified to postgraduate level in Medical Illustration.
• Extensive knowledge and practical experience in medical illustration.
• Previous specialist experience in a clinical environment.

Responsibilities

• Support the Department Leader in clinical illustration services.
• Ensure continuity and excellence across departmental operations.
• Manage the uploading of visual data into the electronic patient records.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Organizational skills

Team working

Telephone skills

Computer skills

Education

Postgraduate degree in Medical Illustration

Degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Go back Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Deputy Department Leader

The closing date is 30 July 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Deputy Department Leader!

The post holder will play a key role in supporting the Department Leader in delivering a high-quality, efficient, and comprehensive clinical illustration service. This includes deputising responsibilities to ensure continuity and excellence across departmental operations.

The department's core mission is to produce clinical illustrative materials that support patient care, medical education, research, and publication. A significant focus is placed on clinical photography, including medico-legal documentation and the secure capture of medical evidence for external agencies.

In addition, the department is responsible for uploading visual data into the Trust's electronic patient records system, ensuring that digital images--particularly those from diagnostic departments such as radiology--are securely managed and appropriately utilised.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

• You must be qualified to postgraduate level in Medical Illustration and have autonomous and extensive theoretical knowledge and practical experience in both the specialised field of medical illustration and all areas of procedures and practice

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent or substantial experience

Experience

• Previous specialist experience gained within a clinical environment
• Ability to work with all professions throughout the Trust and with colleagues in partner organisations involved in the management or provision of health and social care services
• Highly developed interpersonal communication and organisational skills
• Effective team working
• Basic telephone and computer skills

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.

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum pro rata