Senior Therapy Assistant

6 days ago

Bournemouth, United Kingdom Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group Full time

Detailed job description

and main responsibilities Deputy to the Superintendent Radiographer within the CT and MRI department. Take on the Superintendent duties in times of absence, sickness or annual leave. Be able to work in a job share role, maintaining high levels of communication and professionalism. Maintain a confidential and discreet approach where required. Organise the day-to-day workload to accommodate clinical priorities, negotiating changes to the planned work rota where required. Manage all aspects of staff absences including sickness plus granting, recording or refusing annual leave. Hold Return to Work Interviews and complete the relevant online form with staff following periods of sickness absence. Make decisions regarding staff levels, skill mix, annual leave requests, shift swaps and WLI allocation, updating Health Roster as necessary. Manage bank and agency staff, assign duties where required and ensure up to date competencies. Liaise with locum agencies for booking of their staff and update our staff rota and capacity & demand records.  Add PP and WLI payments to Health Roster and finalise end of month. Schedule the annual appraisals of all CT and MRI staff members and appraise staff to ensure on-going competencies. Provide and monitor training for new staff, including completion of local induction and additional relevant competencies. Record and schedule mandatory training dates for CT & MRI staff. Maintain and keep up to date records of all Staff Competencies. Undertake IV Cannulation and IV therapy assessments for new and existing staff. Investigate and respond to LERN forms from both our staff and those from other hospital wards and departments. Schedule, attend and chair staff meetings. Be willing to have difficult conversations with staff when required around sensitive subjects, such as poor performance, timekeeping, appearance, not being able to have leave when desired.  Be willing to talk to patients who raise complaints and help de-escalate and resolve difficult situations. Create and update SOPs, policies, PGDs and other departmental protocols.  Report faults to manufacturers and schedule breakdown fixes and routine maintenance visits, updating our records including capacity impacts.  Ensure departmental audits are undertaken and updated on the Radiology Audit Schedule, such as compliance audit, document acknowledgement, extravasaton  Shortlist and interview prospective radiographers and RDAs into our team. Work with the team at Poole with the aim of service improvement and amalgamation of systems. Attend the monthly Quality and Risk Forum with a report from CT & MRI. Attend meetings with the UHD Extravasation Group (3-4 times per year)

Person specification

Experience / Qualifications

Essential criteria

Extensive post graduate radiography experience, with significant dedicated experience in CT and/or MR Post graduate qualification in CT or MRI or equivalent clinical experience in CT and/or MRI scanning Experience of leading a team and supervision of less qualified radiographers or students

Desirable criteria

Management qualification

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria

Ability to plan, prioritise, analyse and solve problems. Flexible approach to work deadlines and workload.

Other

Essential criteria

Proven leadership skills Able to demonstrate a good technical knowledge of either modality and be willing to train in the other if necessary

Desirable criteria

Experience of sickness absence management , holding appraisals, recruitment & selection and conflict resolution Ability to influence others and to lead by example even when the initiative or task may be personally undesirable

Bigger Picture

Essential criteria

Demonstrate desire to progress and improve the service

Desirable criteria

Working with teams outside of our immediate control

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