Job Description
You will be a highly motivated professional, with excellent communication skills, initiative and the ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
You will be enthusiastic with a desire to support and mentor less experienced members of the team to benefit our patients and our service.
As a highly skilled Radiographer with significant plain film experience, you will provide a caring, compassionate approach within our high quality imaging team. You will need to liaise with the Team Leaders to ensure appropriate training is delivered to other staff as required.
The post holder will have a flexible approach to their working life as we run a 7 day service. This is a pan site role with primary responsibility for our Fenland sites (Doddington Community Hospital, Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely and North Cambridgeshire Hospital). Participation in the out of hour’s service is expected which involves daytime weekend duties.
Produce high quality diagnostic images and provide high quality patient care to the service users adhering to national guidelines and taking into account relevant legislation including, but not limited to, the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (IR(ME)R) 2017 and the Ionising Radiation Regulations 2017 (IRR17).
The post holder will participate in all areas of the clinical rota which is focussed on plain film radiographer working independently and unsupervised. The ability to prioritise the workload is essential. Provide leadership, motivation and training for junior staff.
Our teams work hard to be flexible and promote a health work/home life balance and so, agile working options are automatically considered for all roles within the Trust.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates from our local communities.
Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay and here are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:
- Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
- Relocation allowance in line with the Trust policy
- Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
- Free staff car parking on all our hospital sites during this financial year
- In-house Physiotherapy Services
- Career development and training opportunities
- Emotional Wellbeing Service covering a range of online support, access to mobile apps and 24/7 counselling services
- Subsidised meals at our hospital restaurants
- Access to exclusive discounts, cashback and vouchers via NHS Discounts and Blue Light Card
If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.
Please see attached job description for full details
Technical/Scientific:
- Undertake tasks in all areas of the department in line with departmental protocols.
This includes:
- Providing a high quality clinical and technical radiological service.
- Implementing diagnostic procedures in line with department protocols.
- Provide a specialist clinical technical service implementing specialist diagnostic radiography procedures as per advanced practice.
- Using professional and highly developed physical skills to manipulate equipment with narrow margins for error.
- Position patients using dexterity, co-ordination, and sensory skills and where appropriate achieve intravenous access and administration of medicines in accordance with department protocols.
- Ensuring all necessary documentation pertaining to radiography is completed.
- Ensuring all radiographs are correctly identified and managed in accordance with departmental protocols.
- Operation and maintenance of radiography equipment according to established protocols.
- Use specialist skills to judge radiation exposure parameters in complex cases.
- Follow and implement the ‘red dot’ system for Accident and Emergency/Minor Injury Unit cases. The post holder will use their clinical expertise and exercise clinical judgement to interpret appendicular and axial radiographs and give expert advice and disseminate knowledge, in the form of a written comment, to assist the clinician in order to make the best medical diagnosis. The post holder may also discuss individual cases with the clinician face to face.
- Participate in research within the department as required.
- Keep abreast of developments and changes, in relation to the responsibilities outlined and maintains technical competence and awareness by internal and external training updates.