HSP A27/2023 : HEAD OF RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Company

The CHU Saint-Pierre is a local public hospital, offering high quality care accessible to all. In this context, we take up the challenges of public health on a daily basis while demonstrating our university character through active involvement in teaching and research. What characterizes us is our ability to adapt to social realities, our tolerance, our free examination, and our ability to mobilize on a daily basis for patients from Brussels and from all origins. Our quest for excellence in cutting-edge medicine and our multidisciplinary approach, particularly within our various themed clinics, make our hospital a reference both nationally. Our main resource? Our employees, who are the ambassadors of the 5 values that govern all our daily activities: respect, innovation, commitment, quality and solidarity.

The radiology department at CHU Saint-Pierre offers a full range of medical imaging examinations, specifically tailored to adults and children, for both planned and emergency inpatient and outpatient treatment.

The department has some twenty radiologists and about twice as many technologists.

It is spread over two sites, a main site at Porte de Hal on Rue Haute and a site a few hundred metres away on Rue des Alexiens.

The Porte de Hal site is an acute hospital site and the Alexiens site is a chronic hospital site.

The department includes the following procedures, which together account for more than 100,000 examinations per year:

• Three CT-scan rooms;

• 2 x Siemens, SOMATOM Definition AS, 64 slices, one on the Alexiens site
• 1 x Siemens, SOMATOM Definition AS, 128 slices
• Four adult ultrasound rooms;
• A paediatric ultrasound room;
• Four X-ray rooms, including one in the emergency department and one on the Alexiens site;
• A digestive room;
• An angiography room;
• An MRI room General Electric, Optima 1.5T DV MR450w 32CH (with an adult and paediatric preparation room);
• An interventional radiology room;
• Two mammography machines and three ultrasound scanners linked to senology on the Alexiens site.

The department is on call 24 hours a day and works closely with a large emergency department (more than 70,000 emergencies a year), which treats all urgent pathologies, including many polytraumas; it collaborates with neurology for strokes and is involved in the development of a large intensive care unit covering surgical, medical and intensive coronary care aspects.

It plays an important role in diagnosing infectious diseases for which the CHU Saint-Pierre is a reference hospital (tuberculosis, MERS corona virus, etc.).

It is responsible for diagnosing children admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit and paediatrics, with support from the anaesthetics department where necessary.

It is responsible for the protocol of PET_CT scans.

The department also carries out fine-tuning for a large paediatric department which, in addition to a large emergency department (more than 20,000 emergencies a year), includes a large polyclinic sector and 40 paediatric hospital beds.

It provides medical imaging services for a large adult polyclinic sector (more than 400,000 consultations each year).

Finally, it is a stakeholder in the EUSOMA-accredited breast clinic, guaranteeing compliance with all associated radiological quality standards.

For the rest of the oncology activity, radiologists are stakeholders in the Concertations Multidisciplinaires d’Oncologie, which cover all areas of oncology, with around 1,200 new cancers each year.

Function

The Head of Radiology reports to the Medical Director and the Medical Board for the practice of the medical art and the quality of care in the Radiology Department. The department head is responsible for the proper management of the radiology department; he coordinates with the emergency department and hospital wards of the CHU Saint-Pierre to carry out, in the sectors of activity that require it, within the required deadlines, the radiological investigations requested by these services. He also organises all outpatient examinations for the different procedures.

He supervises the medical staff in all activities relating to the practice of care and is responsible for the continuity of care, the organisation and smooth running of the department and the evaluation of medical and paramedical activity, all under the authority of the hospital’s medical and general management and in collaboration with the hospital’s other bodies and the department’s staff.

He promotes, organises and structures research activities within the department; he allocates the necessary funding in line with the department’s and the institution’s objectives.

In consultation with the training supervisor, he is responsible for training radiology assistants and Master of Medicine students coming to the department for training by organising continuing education courses and seminars, where necessary, in consultation with their respective training supervisors.

He works closely with the administrative managers, technologists and nurses, as well as with their management.

His main tasks are as follows:

• a) Organising the work of the doctors attached to the department.

This involves proposing the most appropriate working hours, while respecting the status of doctors (including post-graduates) and the obligation to ensure continuity of care for patients, in particular by organising and ensuring the smooth running of an on-call service (on site 24/7 and able to be called). He also ensures that the integrated operation of the institution is respected (e.g., respect for care trajectories organised within the institution). In this context, he is involved in the organisation of the hospital, ensuring that inpatient activity is supported and that average lengths of stay are respected, by ensuring that imaging examinations are carried out on time.

• b) Ensuring that medical staff comply with professional ethics and with their regulatory or contractual obligations; in these areas, he must report any breaches to the responsible authorities.
• ) Ensucring the quality of care provided and patient satisfaction by medical staff, as well as promotion of this care with ongoing training and development of this staff. As such, he must enable all doctors to fulfil their annual continuing training obligations.
• d) Ensuring that medical activity is in line with the timetable set by the manager, so as to optimise the use of resources in a way that respects everyone, and ensuring that the equipment made available to the department is used to optimum effect.
• e) Defining the department’s investment requirements to ensure safe, quality care within budgetary constraints.
• f) Defining the minimum staff required for the department to function smoothly, taking into account the various activities carried out in the department (X-ray, CT scan, ultrasound, MRI, mammography and interventional radiology), while respecting budgetary constraints. Within this framework, he proposes the necessary commitments to the manager with the aim of maintaining the department’s various activities.
• g) Ensuring team cohesion, in particular by:
• regular department meetings,
• equitable distribution of clinical and research activities, as well as scientific leave, to enable each member of staff to fulfil their potential while meeting the objectives set for the department by the manager.

The department head may delegate some of his duties to one or more of his senior doctors.

The department head represents the radiology department outside the hospital in close consultation with general medical management.

The department head is a member of the college of department heads and as such attends the specific meetings organised for this college; he is responsible for passing on to his department and circulating the institutional information provided at these meetings and for implementing the manager’s decisions in consultation with him.

Profile

The doctor must hold a Doctor of Medicine, Surgery and Childbirth diploma or have completed the legal formalities to obtain this recognition. • The department head doctor is eligible if he has held the position of head of clinic (or equivalent) and has at least 10 years’ seniority in the specialty. • Possess the title of specialist in the discipline to which the said sector of activity relates. • Satisfy the qualities required for the position. • Have a significant number of publications and conferences in international and national congresses. • Ability to manage the Service in a delegating manner.

Skills required:

Leadership ability

Organising and structuring ability

Analytical skills

Interest in the management and financial management of a department

Skilled in empathy and mediation

Resilience under pressure

Good conflict management

Solutions oriented

Good communication

Offer

An enriching and varied function in a high-performance work environment with a human face. • An attractive financial status with professional liability covered by the CHU. • Multiple services for employees: meal vouchers, the granting of scientific leave (seminars, etc.), high-performance technical equipment, care at preferential rates in all hospitals in the Iris network, a crèche, etc. • A language bonus upon passing the required Selor exam (possibility of language courses). • An efficient technical environment.