Interventional Radiology Nurse Manager - Unit Co-ordinator

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; United States; Remote; USD 87,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced senior nurse to lead the Interventional Radiology Theatre team at Aintree Hospital. The role combines clinical leadership with operational management to ensure safe, efficient care across IR procedures and the patient journey.

The post involves on-call duties, workforce planning, staff development and working within a dynamic, high‑quality clinical environment focused on service improvement and patient safety.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration or Registered ODP with current HCPC registration.
• Teaching and assessing qualification.
• Post registration qualification.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Interventional Radiology Theatre team including workforce planning, rostering and annual leave management.
• Oversee care pathways for IR procedures ensuring safety, quality and patient experience.
• Provide senior clinical leadership across the IR department and support staff development and training.

Skills

Nursing leadership

IR nursing

Staff rostering

Clinical governance

Education

NMC registration

HCPC registration

Teaching qualification

Post-registration qualification

Tools

Email

Word processing

Job description

We are seeking an experienced, motivated and forward-thinking senior nurse to lead our established Interventional Radiology (IR) Theatre team at the Aintree Hospital site. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic leader with a passion for delivering high-quality patient care, developing services, and supporting staff within a specialist and fast-paced clinical environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in the continued development of the Interventional Radiology service, demonstrating a strong commitment to quality improvement, clinical governance, and service innovation. You will provide visible leadership to the nursing team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred care while maintaining the highest standards of clinical practice. This is a full time combined clinical and managerial role and includes participation in the Interventional Radiology nursing on-call rota. The post holder will provide operational and professional leadership within the Interventional Radiology department, supporting the effective day-to-day management of the service and nursing workforce.

Responsibilities will include workforce planning, staff rostering, annual leave management, sickness absence management, recruitment, performance management, and the training and development of staff. You will oversee the coordination and delivery of care for patients undergoing Interventional Radiology procedures, ensuring a seamless patient journey and maintaining high standards of safety, quality and patient experience. The role will also involve supporting and developing junior staff, promoting a positive learning environment, and ensuring the efficient organisation of departmental activities.

Clinically, the successful candidate will be expected to work as a senior practitioner within the IR team, providing expert nursing care throughout the patient pathway. This includes pre-procedure assessment, post-procedure recovery, and supporting procedures within the theatre environment through patient monitoring and scrub/assisting duties as required. The Unit Coordinator Manager will work closely with wider multidisciplinary colleagues, providing leadership, guidance and support to ensure services are delivered effectively, efficiently and in line with organisational objectives. This role offers an excellent opportunity for a senior nurse who is passionate about leadership, service improvement and delivering outstanding patient care within a highly specialised area of practice.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £25.70 (standard disclosure) or £46.70 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Our statement on modern slavery We have zero tolerance of slavery and human trafficking and are committed to maintaining and improving systems, processes and policies to avoid complicity in human rights violation and to prevent slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain. The Trust policies, procedures, governance and legal arrangements are robust, ensuring that proper checks and due diligence are applied in employment procedures to ensure compliance with this legislation. We also conform to the NHS employment check standards within our workforce recruitment and selection practices. This strategic approach incorporates analysis of the Trust's supply chains and its partners to assess risk exposure and management on modern slavery. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

• Registered Nurse, current NMC registration OR Registered ODP, current HCPC registration
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Post registration qualification

Desirable criteria

• 1st level degree or studying towards
• Diploma, Demonstrable experience of effective working in an Interventional Suite at a senior level
• Demonstrable evidence of effective leadership skills
• Demonstrable evidence of staff development
• Demonstrable evidence of change management
• Evidence of application of current healthcare issues and developments
• Evidence of participation in audit and research
• Evidence of developing standards of nursing care through clinical benchmarking

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of effective Interventional Suite management at a senior level, Excellent communication skills
• Supportive of colleagues
• Enthusiastic and motivated with the ability to motivate the team
• High level of personal and professional credibility
• Committed to delivering high standards of patient care
• Act as role model for all staff
• Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing

Desirable criteria

• IT skills inc word, excel and software use, Understanding and application of healthcare governance, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group) was formed on 1 November 2024, born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our communities.

We are one of the largest employers in region, with over 18,900 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services that extend to more than two million people in the North West. We operate from five hospital sites: Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside, and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to several elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provide specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology and respiratory medicine, both in the hospital and out in the community. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms and mainly focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.