Job Description
**Clinical Specialist Radiographer** **Job Summary:** Lead and manage the Ultrasound service, ensuring exceptional patient care and quality service delivery in a rapidly changing environment. **Job Description:** We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Clinical Specialist Radiographer to join our team. As a key member of our Radiology department, you will be responsible for leading and managing the Ultrasound service, ensuring exceptional patient care and quality service delivery in a rapidly changing environment. **Key Responsibilities:** * **Clinical Operations:** + Lead the Ultrasound service on a day-to-day basis, ensuring effective utilisation of resources and quality service delivery. + Develop and implement operational policies, protocols, and guidelines to ensure optimum utilisation of resources and systematic audit of usage. + Advise on equipment selection, purchase, replacement, or upgrading. * **Quality Assurance:** + Investigate and take appropriate action in relation to complaints, accidents, and incidents. + Ensure all hospital policies and relevant up-to-date information on Nuclear Medicine safety is understood by staff and complied with. + Implement and maintain a quality assurance programme in the Ultrasound department. * **Training and Development:** + Develop and maintain a training function as may be required in relation to qualified staff and/or trainees and students. + Supervise and assess all training as required. * **Other Duties:** + Assist the Head of Radiology with policies and procedure development as appropriate. + Implement quality improvement as necessary to ensure safety of patients and staff. + Perform departmental audits that feed into the organisation quality programme. **Person Specification:** * **Qualifications:** + BSc(Hons) Diagnostic Radiography or equivalent. + Post graduate Ultrasound diploma desirable. + CORU Registration. * **Experience:** + A minimum of 6 years experience in the chosen modality or a post graduate qualification in the modality plus a minimum of 3 years experience. + Demonstrate experience of working with a team of Radiographers. * **Job Specific Competencies and Knowledge:** + Demonstrate ability to manage clinical and non-clinical situations. + Have a proven ability to work under pressure. + Have excellent interpersonal and communicative skills. + Be able to deal with staff and management at all levels within the organisation. + Have a high capacity for responsibility and individual initiative. + Have an interest in quality initiation for the Radiographic service. + Evidence of post registration professional development.