Governance

Guidance on roles and responsibilities of a healthcare support worker

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Governance in radiography refers to the systems, policies, and processes that ensure the safe, effective, and ethical delivery of radiography services. 

Governance encompasses various aspects, including staff training, procedures, risk management, and continuous quality improvement. 

As there's a large array of topics, we have broken down this section into four categories:

  1. Competence
  2. Compliance
  3. Supervision & Delegation 
  4. Board Assurance

Each of these sections are compiled with relevant information that you'll be able to see beneath their section buttons.

 This section is a work in progress and will be continuously updated overtime. 

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Work in progress - content to be added!

Work in progress - content to be added!

Integrating assistant practitioners into the existing workforce

Workforce needs to be identified

This applies to a role at A4C B4 using gap analysis. New scope of practice to be reviewed and approved by clinical skills group or equivalent in line with Trust approval process

Supporting guidance

  • The Radiography Support and Assistant Workforce: regulatory compliance, governance arrangements, supervision and delegation

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  • Developing career pathways for diagnostic imaging support worker roles guidance on roles and responsibilities

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  • Implementing Radiography Career: Guidance for managers

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New scope of practice to be reviewed and approved by clinical skills group or equivalent in line with Trust approval process

Business case approved and funding agreed

Include costs for apprenticeship training / upskilling trainers and provision of clinical tutor and clinical supervision / assessment etc.

Accredited HEI Programmes, funding and training available:

Include costs for apprenticeship training / upskilling trainers and provision of clinical tutor and clinical supervision / assessment etc.

Could include/link to example business cases -template business case might be more helpful?

Include links to accredited HEI programmes and consider access to funding and training offers/support e.g. apprenticeships/ imaging

Supporting Guidance

  • Developing career pathways for diagnostic imaging support worker roles guidance on roles and responsibilities

> Read document

Post matched to Agenda for Change job profile

At level 4 with supporting level 5 education in place or planned as part of training – example JDs/ personal spec

at level 4 with

supporting level 5 education in place or planned as

part of training – example JDs/ personal spec


[To include within this section 

- Job descriptions

- Job evaluation handbook lin

Accredited HEI Programmes, funding and training available:

Supporting Guidance

  • Developing career pathways for diagnostic imaging support worker roles guidance on roles and responsibilities

> Read document

Training/support in place

Supervision policy / level of supervision Scope of practice SOP’s example documents

Consider practice educator requirement

  • Training 
  • Backfill post 
  • Time to provide clinical teaching

Consider trainee needs

  • Access to IT, study skills
  • Travel to HEI
  • Provision of simulation tools / software to increase student capacity

Supporting Guidance

  • Developing career pathways for diagnostic imaging support worker roles guidance on roles and responsibilities

> Read document

Role recognised by service users

Aware of delegation of roles / restrictions on scope of practice

 

Extension to scope:

Once qualified as an Assistant practitioner further expansion to scope of practice can be considered – supported by good governance (CSSG), amended Scope of practice, JD and operating procedures to reflect role of assistant practitioner(s) involved.

Role recognised by colleagues

Integrated into radiology team



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