Deputy Superintendent Radiographer | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is recruiting a Deputy Superintendent Radiographer to lead the Interventional and Cath Lab Radiology services. You will combine clinical expertise with leadership to ensure safe, efficient and patient-centred care.

The role covers a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, coordinating complex patient pathways and helping drive service development, staff training and quality improvement across the department.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support the management of the Interventional and Cath Lab Radiology services.
• Coordinate complex patient pathways across emergency, inpatient and elective services.
• Oversee list activity, ensuring timely access to radiological procedures.
• Support workforce development, training and staff wellbeing within the radiology team.
• Ensure radiation safety and IR(ME)R compliance in the department.

Job description

Deputy Superintendent Radiographer | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

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.

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.

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for a full detail of role and main responsibilities - subject to AFC matching

This advert closes on Friday 20 Nov 2026