Employer United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Community Diagnostic Centre Town Lincoln Salary £25,760 – £27,476 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 31/08/2026 23:59
Clinical Imaging Assistant Team Lead – Band 3
NHS AfC: Band 3
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:
- Compassionate – We care about people – Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.
- Collaborative – We work together as a team – Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.
- Innovative – We strive to improve – Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire – making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.
Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
So,what is in it for you?
- Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.
Types of flexibility could include:
- Part-time – less than 37.5 hours per week.
- Off-site/remote working – working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
- Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
- Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
- Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
- NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
- Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
- Bank working:The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.
In addition, there ismore.
- Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
- Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
- Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
- Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
- Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.
Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.
Job overview
Interviews will be face to face Only – We are unable to provide a teams interview.
From the rolling Wolds in the north, 30-mile stretch of golden sands on the east coast and the agricultural Fenlands of the south; The United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest hospital Trusts in the country. Providing a comprehensive range of hospital based medical, surgical, paediatric, obstetric, and gynaecological care to over 800,000 people across the rural county of Lincolnshire. Operating 4 main hospital sites we deliver services in a range of other settings employing over 8,000 staff.
Radiology provides services to the county from 10 sites in state of the art facilities with modern equipment using the latest technologies.
About the Role:-
Based at one of our new community diagnostic centres, your role will be to work within and lead the team of clinical imaging assistant working throughout Radiology at the community diagnostic centres. T
Provide materials management for stock and non-stocks, ensuring a continuous supply of goods, in line with the Trusts materials management system.
You will need the ability to travel across sites independently due to cross site travel. Radiology Pool Car available for use.
Main duties of the job
To provide effective support to Radiologists, Radiographers, Sonographers and Nursing Staff including assistance with procedures to deliver Radiology services 7 days per week.
To supervise clinical imaging staff on a daily basis, ensuring training and development needs are met and staff adhere to the Trusts required behaviours and policies.
To coordinate rotas (including annual leave / low level absence) for the relevant team.
Provide materials management for stock and non-stocks, ensuring a continuous supply of goods, in line with the Trusts materials management system.
To ensure all goods receipting is completed accurately and to time for all non-stock items. To be a point of contact for Supplier/NHSSC enquiries
The operating hours of the service will range between 07.30 hrs to 20.300hrs. There may be a requirement to work longer days.
Shift patterns may vary over 3, 4 or 5 days and will incorporate weekend working.
This vacancy requires an excellent communicator, able to deal with people on all levels. They should be empathetic and level headed and able to cope with situations as they arise. The role is varied and evolving and the person appointed will become a key member of our team.
Working for our organisation
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications
- GCSE English & Maths at grade 4 or above (or equivalent)
- First Aid certificate
- Basic life support
- Experience of leading a team
- Experience of managing stock
- Supervising, mentoring or supporting colleagues
- Taking responsibility for coordinating work
- Multi-disciplinary Team
- Experience of recent direct patient care
- Experience within a Radiology Department
- Previous experience of reception work
- Working experience in a hospital environment or health care environment
- Effective time management
- Track record of delivering service improvement
- CRIS Knowledge, knowledge of radiology information systems.
- Patient positioning for CT/MRI/US/X-ray
- Entering patient x-ray requests onto the electronic system
- Interventional Procedures Training
- Cannulation Training
- Basic Patient Monitoring
Specifc Requirements
- Able to liaise effectively with all professional and non-professionals
- Interest in working in the Radi
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