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Deputy PACS Manager

Permanent - Band 7, Full Time

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 7 Deputy PACS Manager to join the PACS team within the Department of Radiology at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. The successful candidate will assist the PACS manager in the provision and evolution of all Radiology facing IT systems e.g. Radiology Information System (RIS), Image Exchange Portal (IEP). We have three sites to be supported; Croydon University Hospital (CUH) and two community diagnostics centres at Purley War Memorial Hospital and New Addington.

Croydon University Hospital is a large urban DGH situated in South London, serving the needs of a diverse population of 360,000. Croydon has easy access to both central London and the south coast. It also offers a huge range of social, leisure and shopping venues, with excellent transport links to both Gatwick and Heathrow airports.

The department performs in excess of 300,000 all examinations per annum and has an active Clinical Governance programme. There are currently approximately over 160 WTE Staff in post in the Diagnostic Imaging department. The department also serves imaging in theatres, and the Deputy PACS Manager will aid in ensuring that all 

If you would like to be part of a hardworking, friendly department, providing high quality care, please come and visit us and have a chat!

Interview Date potentially 23rd April 

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

·       To Deputise and support the Radiology PACS Manager

·       The post holder will assist in managing the effective implementation, delivery and operation of a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) and Radiology Information System (RIS) to the Trust.

·       Provide support to system users and ensuring that the system is functioning correctly across all of the Trust sites, and work alongside IT and the various staff members who ensure the delivery and quality of the system.

·       To provide first line support to system users and take the lead responsibility for staff training (radiology and non-radiology staff) Developing training plans and participating in training programmes.

·       To deputise for Radiology PACS Manager as the link between Radiology, the Information Technology department, internal and external users, including other PACS Managers within the South West London PACS consortium.

·       To provide first line support to system users to deal with day-to-day faults and system / operator errors and problems. 

·       The post holder will be expected to contribute to the management of the Radiology service through the Senior Management team. 

·       There is no budgetary responsibility; however, the post holder is responsible for ordering specialist equipment, signing timesheets, travel expenses for the team they manage. 

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital, Purley War Memorial Hospital and the new Community Diagnostic Centre in New Addington.

CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough’s only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team.

Purley War Memorial Hospital in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery. 

The New Addington site is based in the south-eastern side of the borough and offers outpatient and GP imaging in x-ray, ultrasound and CT, alongside various respiratory and cardiology outpatient services, alongside an onsite GP surgery. 

The Radiology Department is undergoing significant investment in new equipment, with 8 new ultrasound units, a Cone Beam CT dental unit, plain x-ray room and a CT replacement all occurring within 2025/26.

We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where each one of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.