Superintendent Radiographer

We are seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking Superintendent Radiographer to lead our busy and evolving Neuroradiology service. This is an excellent opportunity to shape service delivery, drive innovation, and support the development of a skilled and committed team within a highly specialised imaging environment., As Superintendent Radiographer, you will provide strong clinical and managerial leadership, ensuring the delivery of a safe, high-quality, and efficient Neuroimaging service. You will act as a visible role model and mentor, supporting radiographers and support staff while promoting a culture of continuous improvement, professionalism, and patient-centred care.
In this role, you will be responsible for implementing departmental policies, embedding clinical governance, managing risk, and ensuring compliance with Trust and national guidelines.
You will oversee operational performance, including workforce management, staff rostering, recruitment and retention, and managing sickness and competency processes. You will lead on achieving key performance indicators, budgetary targets, and waiting list management, while ensuring optimal utilisation of imaging capacity across booked sessions. The role also includes monitoring equipment performance, escalating faults appropriately, and producing accurate activity, capacity, demand, and waiting list data for divisional reporting., + Provide appropriate clinical and managerial leadership throughout the department.
+ To ensure that Clinical Governance and Risk management are embedded within daily practice.
+ Be responsible for the interpretation and implementation of Trust and NHS policies and clinical guidelines within Neuroradiology.
+ Achievement of the Neuroradiology budget and specific Key Performance Indicators including monitoring of waiting list targets.
+ Work with others to optimise Neuroimaging utilisation in relation to booked sessions and availability to meet the demands of the service, acting with regards under-utilisation of lists as appropriate.
+ Oversight of the management of staff rosters in the most efficient way to meet demand, whilst maintaining compliance.
+ Investigate complaints relating to Neuroradiology and implement remedial action as required.
Financial Management
+ Be responsible for the delivery of optimal service within budgetary restraints, ensuring value for money, cost effectiveness and efficiency.
Clinical Responsibilities:
+ Be the Operational lead for Neuroradiology services.
+ Be responsible for the operational running of the Neuroradiology service, ensuring the service provides a responsive and flexible service to the Trust and its patients.
+ Be able to interpret complex medical conditions and facilitate that the relevant diagnostic procedure is undertaken.
+ Demonstrate a highly specialist knowledge of Neuroradiology techniques and be able to adapt that technique to the more challenging patient groups.
Training
+ To be responsible for ensuring that all relevant staff are trained to use all equipment in Neuroradiology and to ensure that there is a sufficient pool of radiographers to deliver a safe, well-led and effective service.
+ Be responsible for the production and implementation of an induction programme for senior radiographers, radiographers and assistant staff (including agency staff) in the Neuroradiology Department.
For futher details, please see attached job description.
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
+ Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
+ Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
+ We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
Please note:
+ That all applications for this post will need to be made online
+ That you read and understand the Job Description and Person Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
+ That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
+ That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
+ That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful
+ That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
+ That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
+ That we are a smoke-free Trust
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NHS Band 8b
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at Slam. It's important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
+ Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package, which is dependent on the role and length of service.
+ Work life balance, flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
+ Career development, there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as leadership, mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
+ Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
+ Accommodation, eligible staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites
+ NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.