Sonography Practice Development Radiographer

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

An esteemed healthcare organization in London seeks a Senior Sonography Practice Development Radiographer. The role entails leading healthcare improvement initiatives, engaging clinical teams, and enhancing staff capabilities within ultrasound imaging. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in radiology and strong leadership skills, contributing to the quality of patient care and workforce development.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable ability to plan and organise complex projects.
• Extensive facilitation, training, and negotiation experience.
• Considerable experience in a senior role in a radiology acute health care environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of practice development improvements.
• Engage and develop effective working relationships with clinical teams.
• Monitor and ensure equitable access to development opportunities.

Skills

Lead programmes of practice improvement

Expert Sonography skills

Analytical skills

Training and facilitation experience

Education

HCPC Registered Allied Health Professional - Radiographer

BSc in Diagnostic Radiography

Recognised relevant teaching/assessing qualification

Master's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Project Management Qualification

Quality Improvement (QI) Qualification

Job description

Sonography Practice Development Radiographer

An exciting senior radiographer position has arisen to support and lead further developments in relation to education, upskilling and people development within our busy radiography department. This post is responsible for overseeing the development of strategic people and pathway development within Ultrasound imaging working cross-organisation across our sites at LGT and will work closely with operational teams and other practice & workforce development colleagues.

This role sits within the small but high impact AHP Workforce Development Team, where the successful person will provide outreach support and leadership for specific areas and teams within the radiography department. There will also be opportunity to work with other professions and services and a positive support network around this role exists.

The post is responsible for a wide variety of workstreams to scope, engage and develop the abilities of our registered and non-registered Colleagues to ultimately ensure service users continue to receive safe and effective quality care.

The post would suit a highly experienced radiographer with expert Sonography skills with knowledge and abilities across in education and workforce development who has a passion for improving pathways and taking responsibility for overseeing projects and programmes related to clinical, leadership, research and educational frameworks.

Main duties of the job

This post is responsible for overseeing the development of strategic people and pathway development within Ultrasound imaging areas across our sites at LGT.

Reporting to the AHP Workforce and Education Lead the post holder will lead on the design, development and implementation of practice development improvements across the Radiography Department to provide the highest standards of patient safety and quality. The role will provide focused input across Ultrasound/ Sonography and therefore will have broad knowledge of how these specific services operate.

The post holder will provide expertise and support to all Radiography teams across the trust, but specifically within the above modality and will engage clinical teams at every level in the scoping, design and implementation of new practice and/or models of care with a focus on workforce development, building capacity and positively transforming the ways of working within the department. The post holder will work with clinicians (including registered and non-registered colleagues) in the relevant teams to ensure they have the knowledge, skills and behaviours to practice in a sustainable manner across the four pillars of practice in line with current national strategies.

The post holder will lead others involved in workforce and education within the radiography department and where relevant will deputise for the AHP Workforce and Education Lead.

About us

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

Job responsibilities

See attached JD/PS for full detail

Key Roles & Performance Areas:

Job description

Job responsibilities

See attached JD/PS for full detail

Key Roles & Performance Areas:

This post is responsible for overseeing the development of strategic people and pathway development within Ultrasound Imaging areas across our sites at LGT.

To lead programmes of practice improvement across the Radiography Department that meet national standards and align to the Trust strategic; clinical strategy and regulatory requirements

• To help develop education capabilities within the radiography department with a specific focus on their assigned modalities
• To chair meetings related to radiography workforce and education and similar meetings with the formation of agendas, minutes, outcomes as appropriate.

To setup, lead and monitor a governance system of ensuring all relevant Radiographers and clinical support workers within the department and assigned modalities have equitable access to development opportunities across the four pillars of practice and that these are put into practice.

To participate in and support, enable and empower the wider radiography team with participation in audit and other benchmarking activity.

Influence and facilitate the integration and transformation of care and support the introduction of new ways of working

To develop and maintain effective working relationships with multidisciplinary staff across the Trust, including senior practitioners, managers, health professionals and supportstaff.

To positively search out opportunities for service improvement and pathway redesign ensuring that patient safety and quality is always at the heart of anyimprovement

To engage and develop effective working relationships with clinical divisional teams at every level in the scoping, redesign and implementation of proposed practice development including working with other AHP teams to improve the patient experience.

To ensure that the training, technical and measurement elementsof improvement are developedinparallel with the practicedevelopment itself and with relevant divisional leads

• Source new information relating to the transformation agenda.

Support senior managers and Clinicians in the areas of improvement, organisational development and spread and sustainability of effective practice.

• Provide timely and comprehensive information updates andreports to the AHP Workforce and Education Lead and to other key stakeholders.

To assist in research work pertaining to the service improvement agenda and more specifically to spread and sustainability of improvedpractice such as through audits, using the results to improve practice of others

To keep up to date with research and developments regarding improvement science, change andtransformation.

To ensure all workforce development programmes of work undertaken by the radiography team are measured, managed anddocumented clearly andconcisely and where necessary using clear project management approaches. This will include scoping, designing, implementing, evaluating, reporting and adjusting a project/programme against a specification of work or project plan.

To ensure that programmes of work are communicated using any opportunities available, i.e. Intranet, Webinars, Trust communication and other regular meetingforums.

• To follow at all times and promote the highest standards of professional practice as laid down in the HCPC standards and the behavioral expectations and to ensure all staff in their sphere of responsibility also meet these standards
• To work with Profession and modality Leads in upskilling Support workers (e.g through identification of training offerings) and review of skill mix to ensure we maximise efficiency and effectiveness of this workforce.
• To maintain expert clinical competence in their own area of practice which should be relevant to their role and modality they are supporting.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• oHCPC Registered Allied Health Professional - Radiographer
• oBSc in Diagnostic Radiography (or equivalent healthcare qualification)
• oRecognised relevant teaching/assessing qualification
• oMaster's degree or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Prince 2 or Project Management Qualification
• Quality Improvement (QI) Qualification
• Member of SoR

Experience

• o Considerable experience or more in a senior role in a radiology acute health care environment
• oDemonstrable ability to plan and organise a range of Project/change management/practice development/QI matters which are highly complex and contentious often requiring formulating and adjusting plans as required.
• oExtensive facilitation, training and negotiation experience
• oDemonstrable evidence of design and implementation of service improvement /practice development at local, divisional and organisational level
• oResearch and Audit.
• Evidence of cross organisation working
• Service/practice development with partners

Knowledge and Skills

• oDemonstrates up to date knowledge and understanding of the NHS environment and current professional AHP/Radiography & USS practice
• oReflective approach to practice and able to make judgements involving a range of complex situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of various options
• oAble to present highly complex, sensitive and contentious information to a range of stakeholders
• oReport writing and presentation of complex information and data related to workforce development
• oTheoretical knowledge and experience in change/project management/practice development.
• oTheoretical knowledge underpinning organisational development, change management and project management
• oAbilities, Knowledge and Skills in the modality allocated to the role
• oAbilities to use matrix management and to empower and enable others to lead and support development initiatives
• Experience in spreading improved practice.

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.

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum plus HCAS pro rata