Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details, see attached job description and person specification.

Main responsibilities & duties:

1.    Work with the Programme Manager and Imaging General Manager to manage the resources of the Breast Screening Service to ensure that screening targets are met whilst also maintaining the quality of the Symptomatic Mammography Service. 
2.    In conjunction with senior colleagues, monitor service provision against waiting-time standards, including two-week-wait and other relevant turnaround times and activity levels. 
3.    Monitor compliance/non-compliance to quality standards to provide information for forward planning and measure conformance with NHSBSP and Cancer Plan targets.
4.    Optimise efficient and effective deployment of the radiographic workforce and mammography equipment to enable all relevant service standards and turnaround times to be met.
5.    Prepare evidence for the Quality Assurance Team visits, demonstrating that the Breast Screening Unit meets quality assurance standards as laid down by NHSBSP. Work with and delegate appropriately to the department’s QA radiographer in this regard.
6.    Maintain appropriate procedures for the validation, analysis, and submission of statistical and service monitoring returns for the Unit and the Trust. 
7.    Continually develop and review business, workforce, and service plans to take account of the changing demands placed on the service. These may be because of changes to national guidelines, national policy or clinical practice but may also be driven by local demographics. 
8.    Participate in the development of business cases to ensure that the service continues to meet the needs of the local population and conforms to national guidance. 
9.    Manage the equipment procurement process for the service, ensuring a robust and transparent evaluation process which considers both clinical and financial criteria is in place. 
10.    Ensure all facilities are in place to enable the mobile units to operate in various locations around Swindon and Wiltshire, developing a strategy to ensure maximum uptake of appointments in the various screening rounds. 
11.    Be responsible for the siting of the mobile unit, investigating and advising on alternative sites as required. 
12.    Respond to verbal and written complaints, following the Trust complaints policy, liaising with the legal department of the hospital. 
13.    Ensure that all record keeping is accurate and legible and maintains patient confidentiality according to Trust Policy and that the GDPR provisions are adhered to. 
14.    Implement changes to the pattern of movement of the mobile units in Wiltshire to maximise their effectiveness for uptake, coverage rates, and service security in conjunction with the Programme Manager.  
15.    Develop and implement standard operating policies and procedures. 
16.    Organise and plan own workload to meet the demands of the service and internal and external targets. 
17.    In association with the Clinical Director of the Breast Centre, co-ordinate the activities of the Breast 
Centre alongside the General Manager for Imaging and the Breast Commissioners, working with relevant external agencies as required.
18.    Lead the Breast Centre management team in the planning and organisation of selected complex activities such as service development and staffing plans. 
19.    Ensure that the unit complies with NHSBSP regulations and that QA guidelines are adhered to. 
20.    Line manage all radiographic staff, delegating selected people-management responsibilities appropriately to suitable team members.
21.    Provide professional leadership for all radiographers and associated clinical staff in the department. 
22.    In conjunction with the Practice Educator, take responsibility for competency assessment and arranging training of radiographers and assistant practitioners. 
23.    Encourage and develop opportunities for continuing professional development (CPD), and career advancement, particularly among the radiographic workforce.
24.    Oversee the implementation of, and adherence to all statutory regulations and legislation, including IR(ME)R regulations, the justification, authorisation, and optimisation of x-ray exposures, and exercise the applicable duties and responsibilities of the Employer, Operator, Practitioner, and medical Physics Expert in the context of the regulations. Work with and delegate appropriately to the department’s radiation protection supervisor in this regard. 
25.    Ensure salary return information is correct and presented in the proper way, including travel expense forms and mileage claims. 
26.    Ensure equipment faults are reported to external agencies such as QARC and NCCPM. 
27.    Ensure maintenance and safety checks and services are carried out as required on all equipment. 
28.    Liaise with the physicists for regular equipment checks. 
29.    Set up and chair meetings such as Staff/Quality Management/ Radiographer QA/Clinical Governance meetings. 
30.    Be professionally autonomous and accountable for own practice within the legal and ethical boundaries of their profession, be aware of own limits and seek advice when required and understand the obligation to maintain their fitness to practise. 
31.    Be a source of expertise on clinical imaging IT systems used in the breast service, working with the PACS radiographer and IT staff as required, including on the procurement and implementation of new systems.