Lead Cardiac Radiographer

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Main area Cardiology Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 3.75 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job
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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT
10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

The Lead Cardiac Radiographer post is an exciting opportunity to provide leadership of the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory in Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. We have a Cardiac Catheter Lab and a shared recovery ward on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Site, with the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory having been upgraded in 2025.

The lab provides a range of pacing and angiography procedures. The post holder will be managing a multidisciplinary workforce of Cardiologists, nurses, physiologists and radiographers. They will work in partnership with the senior managers across the multidisciplinary team within the Cardiac Cath Lab taking lead responsibility for the operational management and strategic direction of the Cardiac Catheter Lab to ensure the service provides responsive, high quality, safe and innovative patient care on a daily basis.

We are recruiting for a Lead Cardiac Radiographer who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The post is clinical as well as administrative and will demand…