CT Radiographer

Isle of Wight NHS Trust; Carisbrooke; In loco; GBP 42.000 - 52.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Isle of Wight NHS Trust is recruiting a CT Radiographer to join the Community Diagnostic Centre team. You will perform a broad range of CT scans for diverse patients, both autonomously and within a multi-professional group, ensuring high standards of care and patient safety.

The role includes participation in the on-call rota and lone-working in certain specialties. You will contribute to delivering excellent care and support for patients and relatives within the NHS Trust.

Competenze

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Evidence of leadership and multi‑professional team working.
• Experience in CT and MR imaging and supervision of students.

Mansioni

• Perform a wide range of CT scans for diverse patient types autonomously and in a team.
• Participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota.
• Ensure imaging meets professional, departmental and legal standards.
• Support patients and relatives with empathy and provide information as required.

Conoscenze

Excellent communication

Leadership skills

Teamwork across departments

CT/MR experience

Student supervision

CPD / continuing education

Formazione

Diploma of College of Radiographers

BSc equivalent

HCPC registration

Descrizione del lavoro

We are recruiting forCT Radiographer who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.

This is a truly exciting time to join our team as we work in the newly developed Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) that delivers first-class diagnostic care to our community.

The new centre has created the ability to deliver joined up diagnostic care, and with increased capacity this ensures our patients have faster access to treatment, earlier diagnosis, and improved outcomes.

By becoming part of our team, you will have the opportunity to work in innovative ways and play a central role in how we improve patient pathways, delivering the right test, at the right time, in the right place.

We are looking for experienced CT Radiographers to come and work in our forward-thinking department. Our normal practice would be to develop staff internally however an exciting opportunity has arisen for external candidates to apply.

Main duties of the job

To conduct a wide range of CT scans upon a range of patient types, both as an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multi-professional team, in a manner that meets professional, departmental and legal standards and requirements.

Participate in the out of hours on call rota. Radiographers practice will involve lone working in particular specialties and at particular times.

Patient presentation will include the unconscious, uncooperative, incapacitated, incompetent, disorientated and those with physical and mental disabilities. A wide variety of patients will be encountered and will include those exhibiting anti-social behaviour including both un-convicted and legally convicted e.g. prisoners.

Other influencing factors include the skills needed to provide patients or relatives with empathy and emotional support for the bereaved, terminally ill, injured, traumatised or those altered by substance use/abuse.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fair throughout the recruitment process.

Working for our organisation

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust serves a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an on-site day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire the Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem of the south coast off England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The Island offers an amazing coast line with beautiful countryside, year round events, festivals and award winning attractions.

Our 2024-2029 Working Together, Improving Together strategy sets out our objectives for the next 5 years, setting the framework for our collaboration to deliver our vision of working together to deliver excellence in care for our patients and communities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Diploma of College of Radiographers or BSc equivalent
• State Registration with the Health & Care Profession Council

Knowledge

• Extensive knowledge of Clinical Governance within the NHS
• Evidence of multidisciplinary team working
• Experience in CT/MR
• Experience in student supervision
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Physical Skills

• Able to wear radiation protective clothing (5mm equivalence) and monitoring devices
• Be able to operate VDU equipment in both image acquisition and data management
• Be able to operate manual handling aids, as provided by the department including patient slide boards, sheets, hoists and trolleys
• Be able to operate and move full range of radiographic equipment Including over-couch tubes, mobile Image Intensifiers with monitors and mobile x-ray machines (motorised and non-motorised)
• Attend annual update and complete e-learning modules, as required in relation to manual handling
• Must be able to demonstrate good technical knowledge and continue to development it

Abilities

• Must be able to work to short deadlines and have a flexible approach to workload

Communication Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Effective advocate for patients
• Evidence of leadership skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.