Lead Vascular Scientist

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Cherwell District; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a strategic leader to head the Vascular Studies Unit, delivering expert vascular ultrasound, timely reporting and clinical advice to multidisciplinary teams within OUH and the Thames Valley Vascular Network.

The post holder will lead service provision within budget, drive commissioning targets, maintain governance, support workforce development and participate in research, teaching and innovation to sustain compassionate excellence.

Responsibilities

• The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership within the Vascular Studies Unit (VSU), delivering a high standard of evidence-based vascular ultrasound, including timely reporting, and clinical advice to multidisciplinary teams.
• They will prioritise and manage referrals, communicate findings to clinicians and patients sensitively, and contribute to patient management, MDT discussions, and emergency planning.
• They will support clinical governance, risk management, and quality assurance, ensuring compliance with Trust policies, professional standards, and safe clinical environments, while promoting research, service development, and excellence in care.
• The role includes operational oversight of service delivery, ensuring effective capacity management, achievement of national and local targets, and contribution to service planning, data reporting, and performance improvement initiatives.
• The post holder will contribute to workforce management, including recruitment, appraisal, supervision, and continuous professional development of staff within the team.
• They will support budget management, resource utilisation, and business planning, ensuring efficient use of financial and physical resources.
• The role requires commitment to personal professional development, effective communication, equality and diversity, and maintaining high standards of professionalism as an ambassador for the service and organisation.

Job description

To provide strategic direction, leadership and line management of the VSU team to provide an effective and well led service for diagnostic ultrasound services to patients within the OUH NHS Trust and the wider Thames Valley Vascular Network.

To be visible and provide expert clinical guidance, support the delivery of a comprehensive clinical service, and develop and innovate practice, research, teaching, training.

In collaboration with the clinical lead and Directorate Manager (DM) , work to ensure that Service Provision is delivered within agreed budgets and that government targets are achieved.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership within the Vascular Studies Unit (VSU), delivering a high standard of evidence-based vascular ultrasound, including timely reporting, and clinical advice to multidisciplinary teams. They will prioritise and manage referrals, communicate findings to clinicians and patients sensitively, and contribute to patient management, MDT discussions, and emergency planning.

They will support clinical governance, risk management, and quality assurance, ensuring compliance with Trust policies, professional standards, and safe clinical environments, while promoting research, service development, and excellence in care.

The role includes operational oversight of service delivery, ensuring effective capacity management, achievement of national and local targets, and contribution to service planning, data reporting, and performance improvement initiatives.

The post holder will contribute to workforce management, including recruitment, appraisal, supervision, and continuous professional development of staff within the team.

They will support budget management, resource utilisation, and business planning, ensuring efficient use of financial and physical resources.

The role requires commitment to personal professional development, effective communication, equality and diversity, and maintaining high standards of professionalism as an ambassador for the service and organisation.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

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If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.