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.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone.
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. 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 General Imaging areas including Plain Film Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, Mammography, Dexa, Fluroscopy and interventional radiology areas 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 Radiographers to ultimately ensure service users continue to receive safe and effective quality care. Main duties of the job The post would suit a highly experienced radiographer with expert knowledge in General Imaging 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. This post is responsible for overseeing the development of strategic people and pathway development within General Imaging areas including Plain Film Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, Mammography, Dexa, Fluroscopy and Interventional radiology 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 Plain Film and associated services 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 ofcare with a focus on workforce development, building capacity and positively transforming the ways of working within the department. Working for our organisation 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. They will work closely with the Practice Development Lead for AHPs to provide robust practice development initiatives with a focus on Radiographers and those undertaking X-Ray investigations but may at times branch across other professions. 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 See full JD/PS attached This role is responsible for developing key high impact workforce development initiatives within:
General Imaging areas including Plain Film Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, Mammography, Dexa, Fluroscopy and interventional radiology 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 developed in parallel 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 . Person specification Essential criteria • HCPC Registered Allied Health Professional – Radiographer
• BSc in Diagnostic Radiography (or equivalent healthcare qualification)
• Recognised relevant teaching/assessing qualification
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Modality specific qualification or advanced training showing a high level of competence in the specific modality areas related to the role – Plain Film/ General/ XR imaging and associated practices Desirable criteria Prince 2 or Project Management Qualification
Quality Improvement (QI) Qualification
Member of SoR
SoR Educator Accreditation Experience Essential criteria • Considerable experience or more in a senior role in a radiology acute health care environment
• High clinical competence in Radiography services, with a specialism in one or more modalities where the role will be operating in e.g. Plain Film/ General/ XR and associated practices
• Demonstrable 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.
• Extensive facilitation, training and negotiation experience
• Demonstrable evidence of design and implementation of service improvement /practice development at local, divisional and organisational level
• Research and Audit. Desirable criteria Evidence of cross organisation working
Service/practice development with partners Knowledge and Skills Essential criteria • Demonstrates up to date knowledge and understanding of the NHS environment and current professional AHP/Radiography & associated practice
• Reflective approach to practice and able to make judgements involving a range of complex situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of various options
• Able to present highly complex, sensitive and contentious information to a range of stakeholders
• Report writing and presentation of complex information and data related to workforce development
• Theoretical knowledge and experience in change/project management/practice development.
• Theoretical knowledge underpinning organisational development, change management and project management
• Presentation skills
• Abilities, Knowledge and Skills in the modality allocated to the role
• Abilities to use matrix management and to empower and enable others to lead and support development initiatives Desirable criteria Experience in spreading improved practice. 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, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa. Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Application numbersTo 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.
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