Trust Manager

Overview

Head of Imaging to provide strategic, professional and operational leadership across acute imaging and community diagnostic services. Lead with authenticity, drive service transformation, and champion excellence across a diverse workforce. Influence Trust-wide strategy, elevate patient care, and shape the future of diagnostic services within the NHS Trust. Interview date: 23 February 2026.

• Provide visible professional and clinical leadership across all Imaging services.
• Deliver the Trust's Imaging strategy in partnership with the Clinical Director and General Manager.
• Ensure high standards of patient care, safety and experience across acute and community sites.
• Oversee compliance with ARSAC, IRMER and Environment Agency regulations.
• Lead service improvement, innovation and modernisation projects.
• Manage Imaging performance, activity targets and key operational indicators.
• Use data and performance information to support decision-making and service development.
• Lead and develop Imaging staff, ensuring effective recruitment, retention and workforce planning.
• Oversee appraisals, mandatory training, supervision and performance management.
• Manage budgets, cost improvement plans and financial risks within the Imaging portfolio.
• Support risk management, incident review, complaints learning and governance processes.
• Build strong relationships with internal teams, SEL networks and external partners.
• Contribute to business planning, service redesign and Trust-wide transformation programmes.
• Participate in the senior management on-call rota.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Work with the service's senior management team (Clinical director and General Manager) and service leads to provide professional and clinical leadership to the department, ensuring that a framework is in place to ensure all nursing and imaging staff are appropriately managed and are clinically and professionally developed so that they are, therefore, efficient, effective, engaged and highly motivated.

In partnership with the Clinical Director and departmental General Manager, implement the Trust's Imaging priorities and strategy. Maintain a highly visible leadership profile, undertaking quality rounds and being proactive about engaging with service areas where required. Support Imaging services to supervise clinical areas requiring special management measures or additional support to ensure that patient safety is maintained and improvement objectives are met.

Provide professional supervision to other senior imaging staff who may be located in a different division. Work with other health care professionals in the service to ensure safe, effective and professional standards of patient flows, care management and delivery. Ensure that patient care is delivered with care and compassion to a high standard, to ensure a positive patient experience and achievement of clinical quality standards as measured through relevant clinical indicators and audits.

Ensure a consistent approach across pathways and services in Imaging, so that all clinical staff comply with Trust-wide policies and procedures. Ensure all clinical services in the post holder's portfolio are managed within budget and achieving their key performance indicators. Contribute to the development and implementation of the Division's business plan by contributing to the service and business strategy, including cross-service and external partnership working.

Responsible for the delivery of identified quality and service improvement projects or development programmes that contribute to the modernisation of patient services. Delivery of the Trust's Equality and Diversity Strategy in terms of non-medical clinical staff recruitment, retention and development. Manage the delivery of all Imaging innovation and development within the division and, where relevant, for the Trust. Identify and take forward the specific contribution Imaging can make to the development of the services in the Division, delivery of QIPP and achievement of the improving use of resources programme.

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