Imaging Assistant

Sherwood Forest Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Mansfield is seeking an Imaging Assistant to support radiographic teams across ultrasound, X-ray, CT and MRI. You’ll help patients feel at ease and work within a multidisciplinary team.

Ideal candidates have NHS caring environment experience, a good standard of education and relevant basic IT skills, with a commitment to high-quality patient care and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Experience in NHS healthcare/caring environment.
• NVQ2 care or equivalent.
• Care certificate or related health qualification.
• A good standard of education.
• May have to work extended days in the future.
• Weekend and Bank holiday work requirements.

Skills

Caring environment experience

Basic computer skills

Education

A good standard of education

Tools

Care certificate

NVQ2 care

Job description

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are delighted to welcome enthusiastic, compassionate and motivated individuals to join our expanding Radiology Service as an Imaging Assistant.

If you enjoy working in a busy clinical environment, supporting patients and working as part of a friendly, multidisciplinary team, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

As an Imaging Assistant, you will play an important role in supporting our radiographic teams with all non-nursing aspects of patient care. You will help patients feel comfortable, safe and supported throughout their imaging experience, while working alongside experienced healthcare professionals across a wide range of services, including:

• Ultrasound
• X-ray
• CT
• MRI

This is a varied and rewarding role where every day brings something different. You'll be an integral part of the patient journey, helping to deliver a high-quality, compassionate service while developing valuable skills and experience within Radiology.

Whether you're looking to take your first steps towards a career in Radiology, develop your experience within the NHS, or are simply looking for a rewarding new challenge in a patient-focused environment, we would love to hear from you.

Come and be part of our growing Radiology team and help us make a difference to our patients every day.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here: Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

• Knowledge acquired through work experience in caring environment

Desirable

• Knowledge acquired through work experience in healthcare environment

Qualifications

Essential

• A good standard of education

Desirable

• NVQ2 care
• Care certificate

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a NHS healthcare/caring environment

Desirable

• Previous experience in radiology setting

Further Training

Desirable

• Any associated training related to healthcare
• Basic computer skills

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• May have to work extended days in the futur
• To work weekends and Bank holidays

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.