# Radiology Admin Team Lead Band 5

**Company**: The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Uxbridge
**Salary**: £35763.00 to £43466.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting position has become available within the Radiology department for an Administrative Team Lead position. The post holder will be part of a highly skilled administrative team whose responsibilities are to support the clinical services within the Radiology Department in managing the daily demand and to effectively prioritise incoming referrals into urgent and non-urgent.

The post holder will operationally manage and oversee all administrative activities of the Radiology Department and be the line manager for all clerical staff. To be responsible for the general administrative functions within Radiology. To be responsible for coordinating all radiology activity including invoicing.

The successful candidate will need to be assertive, confident, flexible, and able to work under pressure. Attention to detail, a keen eye for data quality checks, and a comprehensive understanding of MRI, CT, Ultrasound modality, and knowledge of clinical systems such as Cerner, Soliton, IEP, and Somerset are essential for this role.

**Main duties of the job**

- Participate in service improvement, devising new ways of working to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of the administrative and clerical team.

- Manage Radiology waiting lists and appointment bookings process for CT, MRI, and Ultrasound procedures, optimising scheduling processes to ensure timely access to essential imaging services and reduce wait times.

- Adopt new systems that enhance the administrative function in radiology.

- Proactively and accurately track patients on a cancer pathway via the cancer system, Soliton, to ensure patients are seen in a timely and efficient manner.

- Develop and maintain an understanding of the Cancer Waiting Times (CWT) guidance to ensure that two-week wait, 28-day, 31-day, and 62-day targets are met.

- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to ensure data is processed in a timely and effective way.

- Support and attend tumour site patient tracking list (PTL) meetings through the preparation of patient tracking lists, capturing actions, and following up progress via agreed escalation protocols within the Radiology department.

- Lead a high-performing clerical team, address daily administrative challenges, and implement performance management strategies.

- Line manage clerical staff to provide an efficient and timely service to the department and provide cover as necessary.

- Be responsible for all complaints and queries, escalating to the Radiology Service Manager when appropriate.

- Recruit and retain clerical staff, and conduct yearly appraisals with records of any personal development plans.

- Provide first-line support to application-level problems and questions.

**Person Specification**

- Educated to graduate level and/or have equivalent knowledge and experience.

- Advanced knowledge of radiology systems and applications.

- IT skills - competent in Word and Excel.

- General computer skills.

- Experience of working successfully within a multidisciplinary team.

- Experience of working well under pressure and to deadlines.

- Experience of managing people.

- Experience of all processes in the radiology department.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £35,763 to £43,466 per annum.

- Agenda for Change pay scheme.

- Permanent, full-time position.

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## Skills

### Required
- radiology systems
- Cerner
- Soliton
- IEP
- Somerset
- Word
- Excel
- general computer skills
- multidisciplinary team
- pressure and deadlines
- managing people

### Nice to have
- management qualification
- ECDL
- project work
- database management
- audit results

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