IR Radiology Care Assistant, Band 3

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a frontline role in our Interventional Radiology and Day Case Units. You will greet patients, assist with examinations, and support the nursing team to deliver high-quality care.

The role involves cannulation assistance, observation and ensuring safety within a busy hospital environment. You will work Mon-Fri, 8:00–16:00, across two acute hospital sites in Gloucestershire.

Qualifications

• Meet and greet patients upon arrival with respect and dignity.
• Ability to support nursing teams in day case units and IR labs.

Responsibilities

• Meet and greet patients upon arrival, ensuring they feel safe and secure in our care across two acute hospitals.
• Prepare patients for examinations, providing clear instructions and assisting with cannulation and radiation protection screening.
• Perform administrative and housekeeping tasks to facilitate service delivery.
• Monitor patients during visits, including vital signs observations as required.
• Support the nursing team in Day Case Units and IR labs.
• Transfer patients to and from the department and imaging areas.
• Maintain a clean and safe department, report faults quickly.
• Work within a MDT to provide essential services to almost every patient.
• Deliver direct patient care in line with Trust values caring, listening and excelling.

Job description

This is a front line position and you will often be the first health care worker that the patients see in our department so it is therefore essential that you are a good communicator and can greet each individual with respect and dignity.

As an overview of the predominant tasks include:

• Meet and greet patients upon arrival, making them feel safe and secure in our care across the two acute hospitals in our Trust.
• prepare patients for their examinations/procedures. This includes providing clear instruction,assisting with changing, cannulation and radiation protection screening.
• perform administrative and house keeping tasks to facilitate effective service delivery
• monitoring patients for the duration of their visit, including vital signs observations as required
• support the nursing team in providing quality patient care in two Interventional Day Case Units across sites.
• Transfer of patients to and from the department as well as in and out of examination rooms and onto specific imaging tables.
• contribute to a clean and safe department, complying with policies and reporting faults quickly
• working within a multidisciplinary team to provide essential services to almost every patient that visits the hospital

Additional working pattern details: Mon - Fri shift patterns 8.00-16.00

Main duties of the job

• To deliver direct patient care in line with Trust values caring, listening and excelling and how this relates to yourself and patients.
• Support the nursing team to delivery high quality care for patients in Day Case Units and the IR labs.
• Undertake patient observations and documentation in line with the NEWS (national early warning score) system. Respond to signs of a deteriorating patient and alert the appropriate team if a need for emergency intervention is required following the departmental protocol.
• Perform Cannulation and removal of cannula after appropriate training.
• Support the interventional procedures in all modalities through competency in sterile trolley preparation and decanting and assisting as required.

Located in the Cotswold's area of outstanding natural beauty Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is well situated for access to the rest of the UK, with motorways linking The North, south and East. London is 2 hours drive or train with International Travel available from Bristol and Birmingham as well as Heathrow all within 90minutes. As a large district general hospital, we offer essential diagnostics to a population of over 600,000 people from all walks of life and as a team we advocate and prioritize the importance of early diagnostics in patient care plans and journeys and have some of the most up-to-date MRI and CT scanners on the market to support this, offering a range of specialist scans with an aim to introduce cardiac MRI this financial year.

The Interventional Radiology staff group is a highly motivated and caring team. We foster genuine and respectful relationships within the MDT focused on achieving the best outcomes for all patients.

The post-holder is responsible for delivering highly skilled patient focused care, acting as an advocate for patient safety and excellent experiences within the trust.