Deputy Superintendent Radiographer

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Park Village; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Deputy Superintendent Radiographer for its busy Interventional and Cath Lab Radiology services. You will lead clinical teams, drive service development, and ensure safe, patient-centred care across a range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

The post involves coordinating complex pathways, supporting capacity management, and leading workforce development, training, and staff wellbeing within the Radiology team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Interventional and Cath Lab Radiology services to ensure safe, efficient patient care.
• Coordinate complex patient pathways across emergency, inpatient and elective services.
• Oversee list activity, capacity management and timely access to radiology procedures.

Job description

This is a key leadership role supporting the Superintendent Radiographer in the operational management, service development and workforce leadership of a busy and expanding Interventional and Cath Lab Radiology service. The successful candidates will combine excellent clinical expertise with strong leadership and organisational skills to help deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care.
This post provides you with a diverse range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures across interventional radiology and the cardiac catheter laboratories, which includes supporting complex vascular, oncological and image-guided interventions, as well as cardiac diagnostic and interventional procedures delivered within the Cath Lab.
Coordinating complex patient pathways across emergency, inpatient and elective services.
Supporting the management of service capacity and patient flow to ensure timely access to a range of radiological procedures.
Coordinating and overseeing list activity, working closely with Radiologists, Cardiologists, Nursing staff, Ward teams and other multi-disciplinary specialties.
Managing competing service demands and prioritising urgent and emergency cases appropriately.
Supporting efficient utilisation of Radiology and Cardiology resources, staff and equipment.
Overseeing stock control, consumables management and equipment readiness to ensure continuity of service and minimise disruption to patient care.
Leading service improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing patient experience, productivity and operational performance.
Supporting workforce development, training, competency assessment and staff wellbeing within the Radiology team.
You will support radiation safety and IR(ME)R compliance within the interventional radiology or cardiology department in which you work.
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, motivated and forward-thinking Radiographer to join each of our Interventional and Cath Lab Radiology services as a Deputy Superintendent Radiographer.