Lead Cardiac Radiographer

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is seeking a Lead Cardiac Radiographer to provide leadership for the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site. The role combines clinical duties with administrative responsibilities and requires guiding a multidisciplinary team.

You will manage daily operations, drive service development, ensure safety and quality, and mentor staff across cardiology, radiography, and nursing.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience, Masters qualification preferred or working towards.
• 1st level registration/qualification in a relevant clinical specialty including nursing, Cardiac Physiology or Radiography.
• Post-graduate qualification in healthcare management, or equivalent evidence of continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day management of the Cardiac Cath Lab, ensuring compliance with SOPs and performance metrics.
• Be visible and accessible to patients, relatives and staff, providing leadership and direction for the service.
• Lead professional development of the Cath Lab team, including training and recruitment initiatives.
• Develop and implement strategies to create new inter-professional working practices and drive service improvement.

Skills

Leadership experience

Staff management

Service development/planning

Budget management

Education

Degree level education (or equivalent)

First level registration in relevant clinical specialty

Post-graduate management qualification or CPD evidence

Job description

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Main area Cardiology Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 3.75 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 197-R-LC8717

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

The Lead Cardiac Radiographer post is an exciting opportunity to provide leadership of the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory in Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. We have a Cardiac Catheter Lab and a shared recovery ward on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Site, with the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory having been upgraded in 2025.

The lab provides a range of pacing and angiography procedures. The post holder will be managing a multidisciplinary workforce of Cardiologists, nurses, physiologists and radiographers. They will work in partnership with the senior managers across the multidisciplinary team within the Cardiac Cath Lab taking lead responsibility for the operational management and strategic direction of the Cardiac Catheter Lab to ensure the service provides responsive, high quality, safe and innovative patient care on a daily basis.

We are recruiting for a Lead Cardiac Radiographer who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The post is clinical as well as administrative and will demand substantial patient contact as well as supervisory and teaching skills.

Main duties of the job

T he post holder will be responsible and accountable for the day-to-day management of the catheter lab and provide leadership within the department, ensuring compliance against standard operating procedures and performance metrics.

T o be visible, easily identifiable and accessible to patients, relatives and staff working within the clinical area as service needs, providing leadership, support and direction for the service.

To lead the professional development of the multi-disciplinary Cath Lab team, including the implementation and development of relevant Trust guidelines, training and development of Cath Lab staff and recruitment and retention initiatives.

To have a key responsibility for service development, ensuring delivery of a highly effective and efficient service. This will include development and implementation of strategies to create new ways of inter-professional working through supporting innovation and best practice.

To be responsible for supporting the Cardiac Cath Lab’s strategic aims in line with local and national developments/guidance.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

T o engage proactively in the Division’s Clinical Governance processes, data quality and information management systems including reporting and investigation of incidents and complaints and implementation of relevant action plans.

To work collaboratively with the Medical lead for the Cath Lab and Cardiology, Divisional Director of Nursing and Governance (DDNG), Specialist Medicine Head of Nursing and Senior Matron, Senior Radiographers and Head of Cardiac Physiology taking responsibility for ensuring the efficient operational management of the service and that strategic aims are met.

T o be expected to have specialist knowledge of cardiology, radiology and its working practices. This includes being responsible for the training and development of junior team members and work with and support colleagues of the management team with driving the service forward.

Maintain a safe working environment, in line with Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards acting as lead for NATSIPS / LOCSIPS within the Cath Labs.

To lead on radiation safety ensuring all staff have up to date IRMER and IRR training and to be responsible for audit of IRMER and IRR and record keeping in line with Radiation Safety Committee guidance.

To represent the Cardiac Cath Lab and promote service development within the SEL Cardiac Network

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience, Masters Qualification Preferred or working towards
• 1st level registration/Qualification in a relevant clinical speciality including nursing, Cardiac Physiology or Radiography
• Post-graduate qualification in healthcare management, or equivalent evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years post–registration clinical experience, including working in a cardiac centre in a specialised clinical area
• Previous experience of service development /planning
• Previous experience of managing staff, including recruitment, performance management and development of staff
• Experience of overseeing capital budgets, including submission of funding bids / proposals

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.

Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

Use of AI in recruitment: We may use artificial intelligence (AI tools to support the initial review of applications against the essential criteria for this role. Where AI is used, it will support rather than replace human decision-making, and applications will remain subject to appropriate human review.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Application numbers

To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date. We recommend applying as early as possible to avoid missing out. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.

Name charlotte carter Job title General Manager Frailty and Specialist Medicine Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 02088366823