About this role
Job summary
MRI Modality ManagerLocation: Jersey, Channel IslandsSalary: £79133-£86974 (depending on experience and qualifications)Relocation package available for off-island candidates
We are seeking an experienced and motivated MRI Manager to lead and develop our service.
This is a senior role for a dynamic professional who shares our vision to deliver consistently outstanding care and exemplary service.
As the MR Manager, you will provide strategic and clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality, safe, and efficient MR imaging service. Working closely with the Radiologist Lead and senior colleagues, you will oversee service planning, workforce management, equipment and resource coordination, and continuous service improvement.
What we offer:
A forward-thinking and supportive working environment where your leadership can thrive. Continuous professional development opportunities and encouragement to innovate and lead change. The chance to shape and expand a specialist service within a cohesive multidisciplinary team. Why Jersey?
Set in the Bay of St Malo, just 40 minutes from London by air, Jersey offers the perfect blend of career and lifestyle. With its mild climate, stunning beaches, dramatic cliffs, and vibrant outdoor culture, Jersey provides an exceptional quality of life. Whether you're paddle boarding across St Brelade's Bay, enjoying a beachside barbecue, or exploring scenic coastal paths, Jersey is a safe, beautiful, and welcoming place to live and work.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities:
Lead the MR service, ensuring clinical excellence and operational efficiency. Hold direct line management responsibility for senior MRI staff and professional leadership responsibility for the wider MRI workforce. Drive service development and innovation in response to patient needs, national guidance, and technological advancements. Maintain high standards of patient care, safety, and governance in line with regulatory and organisational frameworks. Collaborate with radiologists, clinical teams, and external stakeholders to ensure seamless service delivery and development. Support wider Radiology leadership and contribute to cross-modality service coordination as required.1. Manage an Imaging Modality* within the Radiology service and work with the other clinical modality managers to ensure the highest imaging and management standards are maintained.
2. Manage staff, staff training, resources & activity in the modality and provide expert specialist advice. Lead and develop the service. Provide support and direction in relation to radiography clinical practice and professional development
3. Undertake clinical duties *Imaging Modality is an imaging technique, such as X-ray, CT (computed tomography), MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging,) Ultrasound and Mammography.
About us
At Health and Care Jersey, were not just delivering healthcare - were shaping the future of health and wellbeing for over 100,000 Islanders and visitors. Our dedicated team of over 2,000 professionals provides essential care across 30+ diverse departments, offering a wide range of specialist services from acute and emergency care to community and preventative health initiatives.With state-of-the-art facilities like the brand-new Enid Quenault Health and Wellbeing Centre and exciting plans to modernise our healthcare infrastructure, this is a great time to join us. Whether you're providing frontline patient care, supporting health initiatives in the community, or contributing to vital mental health and social services, your work will make a meaningful impact on people's lives every day.Join us and be part of something extraordinary.
Job description Job responsibilities
1. Manage the specialist imaging modality in line with the policies and procedures. Implement all safety advice and legislation in relation to the modality. Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure best practice is adopted and reviewed on a regular basis. Responsible for ensuring staff are trained in current radiation protection and other relevant legislation in order to ensure the smooth and effective running of the service.
2. Deliver a wide range of clinical work appropriate to the imaging modality, including complex procedures. Audit practice of Radiographers, who work in the imaging modality, supporting, training and supervising them as required, to ensure delivery of service to the highest standards.
3. Manage both Professional and non-qualified modality staff including: recruitment, induction, the co-ordination of mandatory training, continued professional development performance review and staff competency. Ensure that sufficient staff are in place and operating competently within their scope of practice with the appropriate skill mix.
4. Manage the modality area to ensure compliance with health and safety, infection prevention and control and other current legislation. Develop and implement risk assessments, investigate and act on untoward incidents (Datix). Carry out regular audit within modality.
5. Organise the workflow of the modality, including the management of appropriate waiting times and appointment schedules both acute and routine. Ensure that the service is provided in the most efficient, effective and economic way while caring appropriately for the patients.
6. Maintain all relevant records in the required format and on time. Operate information and communication systems to ensure the integrity of information stored on all databases. Provide relevant information for improved patient care and effective resource management in compliance with data protection policies and legislation.
7. Investigate and deal appropriately with complaints and adverse incidents that relate to the imaging modality as requested, ensuring considered responses are delivered in a timely manner and that the service maintains an ethos of continuous improvement and innovation.
8. Manage imaging equipment to ensure faults are identified, appropriate action taken and equipment quality is maintained. Implement and maintain a quality assurance program and act on adverse findings. Ensure minimal impact on service provision.
9. Practice as a clinical imaging specialist performing imaging techniques to a very high standard including complex and specialist procedures and acting as a role model for the team.
10. Provide and participate in an on-call service to ensure that urgent work which cannot wait until normal working hours is completed (except in Mammography). Responsible for organising, developing and implementing rotas for modality.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Significant post-graduate practical specialist modality experience, some of which will have been with management responsibility in this specialist setting. Experience of working effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable
Training and development of Professional and nonqualified modality staff. Experience of managing and delivering audits of service, identifying improvements, developing business cases for improvement and implementing agreed improvements.
Qualifications Essential
A relevant qualification either the Diploma of the College of Radiographers or BSc in Diagnostic Radiography or equivalent. Recognised post graduate qualification in specialist modality. Where reporting of images is undertaken it is essential that the qualification includes this. Registered with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) and has Jersey Care Commission registration. A Post Graduate management qualification.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Health and Community Services
Address Government Of Jersey
Union Street
St. Helier
Jersey
JE2 3DN
Employer's website https://www.gov.je (Opens in a new tab)