PACS/RIS Manager

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; United States; Teletrabalho; USD 133 000 - 186 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks a senior IT lead to manage PACS/RIS systems and imaging workflows across the regional network. You will plan resources, drive projects, and ensure secure, reliable services while coordinating with clinical teams and suppliers.

Your role includes designing workflows, overseeing budgets, and delivering BI reporting to support performance and mandatory reporting requirements, with line management responsibility for the PACS/RIS team.

Qualificações

• Degree level in an IT-related subject or equivalent PACS/RIS experience.
• Post-Graduate management qualification or equivalent experience.
• Prince 2 Foundation / ITIL Foundation, demonstrable PACS & RIS management experience.
• Experience in supervisory management including recruitment, attendance and performance issues.

Responsabilidades

• Lead planning, implementation, configuration and day-to-day management of PACS, RIS and imaging systems.
• Design and improve clinical imaging workflows including electronic requesting, results reporting and image exchange.
• Manage complex projects, business cases, suppliers, risks, budgets and reporting to governance groups.
• Develop data warehouse and BI reporting to support performance, waiting-times and mandatory reporting.
• Line manage PACS/RIS administrators and oversee training and user support.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure secure, resilient PACS/RIS services.

Conhecimentos

PACS & RIS systems

Supervisory management

Project management

HL7

DICOM

ITIL Foundation

Prince 2 Foundation

Data management

Vendor liaison

Formação académica

IT degree or equivalent PACS/RIS experience

Post-Graduate management qualification

Ferramentas

HL7

DICOM

Microsoft Office

Descrição da oferta de emprego

The post holder would be the contact for external stakeholders including PACS/RIS providers, NHSE/I and NHS Digital as well as also being main link for the regional network, leading on any project work and wider national data collections and bench marking. The post holder is required to additionally be responsible for: Lead the planning, implementation, configuration and day-to-day management of radiology and cardiology PACS, RIS and associated imaging systems. Design and improve clinical imaging workflows, including electronic requesting, results reporting and image exchange across organisations. Manage complex projects, business cases, suppliers, risks, budgets, plans, benefits realisation and reporting to governance groups. Maintain reliable, secure and resilient services through effective support arrangements, asset management, access controls, backups, disaster recovery and contingency planning. Use DICOM, HL7 and related technologies to integrate modalities and systems, improve data quality and enable innovative workflows. Develop data warehouse and reporting solutions to support business intelligence, performance, waiting-times compliance and mandatory reporting. Lead service redesign and change, working with clinical teams, digital colleagues, consortium partners and suppliers. Line manage and develop PACS/RIS administrators, provide expert advice and oversee training, guidance and user support.

• Plans, allocates resources and monitors the work of the PACS & RIS team, reporting progress as required. Plan the teams projects and allocates tasks to team members.
• Carries out projects, alone or as part of a team, applying knowledge, skills and experience. Demonstrates and understanding of the issues of interest to the organisation and proposes viable solutions within the scope of own expertise, taking into account the needs to those affected.
• Recognises needs outside own areas of knowledge, recognises how these areas relate, calls for and works effectively with additional expertise as necessary.
• Provides technical leadership to the PACS & RIS team.
• Provides technical leadership and control of resources required to provide an efficient and cost-effective PACS & RIS infrastructure delivery service to users, customers and clients.
• Matches hardware, software, PACS & RIS and overall system capability and capacity to meet current and predicted requirements for information system services in a cost effective manner.
• Provides direct line management to the PACS & RIS team.
• Designs, creates, develops and maintains overall PACS & RIS plans, to underpin IT strategies in the support of the organisation's business strategy. This includes participation in the planning of all aspects of infrastructure necessary to ensure the secure provision of PACS & RIS services to meet business needs.
• Is responsible for the day-to-day support, operation and control of all equipment within an organisation's PACS & RIS infrastructure.
• Actively identifies problems within processes designed to ensure customer satisfaction. Takes responsibility for investigating. Advise the Head of Operations, offering solutions in conjunction with relevant colleagues.
• Ensures completion by following up and monitors using reporting tools, checking progress against targets within Service Level Agreements, report as necessary, taking action to resolve or exceptions. Delegating where necessary.
• As the senior member of the team, mentors colleagues to improve their skills and become effective team players. Encourages effective use of resources and actively promotes skill mix within the team
• Instigates, contributes and leads project based activities, providing team resources and leadership, as required.

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.

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.

Qualifications

• Degree level in an IT related subject or equivalent experience of working with PACS & RIS systems
• Post-Graduate management qualification/equivalent experience
• Prince 2 Foundation / ITIL Foundation, Demonstrable experience of managing PACS & RIS systems
• Demonstrable experience of supervisory management including dealing with recruitment of staff, attendance management and performance issues

Desirable criteria

• NHS experience or equivalent in a large complex organisation, Good understanding of IT equipment and network infrastructure. Knowledge of HL7, DICOM and IHE
• Detailed knowledge of Radiology IT Systems
• Detailed knowledge of data management and statistics
• Be proficient in the user and knowledge of Microsoft products word, excel and PowerPoint e.g. activity reports, chares, graphs and tables, presentations and business reports, Ability to problem solve
• Excellent organisational skills to deal with conflicting priorities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage and prompt change
• Work on own initiative and plan own tasks to meet deadlines
• Able to communicate complex IT issues to non-technical people
• Ability to concentrate on completing complex tasks despite regular unplanned interruptions