Radiographic Assistant

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; Long Eaton; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Job summary

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Imaging Department Assistant to join the Breast Service. The role involves supporting clinics, assisting in ultrasound and outpatient rooms, and serving as a first point of contact for patients across multiple sites.

You will work with a multi-professional team within the NBSS framework, performing duties to ensure smooth patient flow, proper paperwork, and stocked clinics. NHS values and teamwork underpin the role.

Qualifications

• Good communication skills are essential for patient contact and team liaison.
• Ability to provide chaperone duties and assist in clinics.
• Support in ultrasound and outpatient clinic rooms as part of the Breast Service.

Responsibilities

• Assist with running clinics to maintain orderly patient flow.
• Provide chaperone duties for clinical examinations.
• Ensure clinic paperwork is correctly filled and filed in patient records.
• Keep clinic rooms stocked and ready for procedures.
• Distribute Breast Care leaflets and manage leaflet orders.

Skills

Communication skills

Job description

The Derby/Burton Breast Unit is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Imaging Department Assistant to join the Breast Service hosted by UHDB (University Hospitals of Derby and Burton) to work across all sites. The Imaging Department Assistant role is at the foundation of our ability to make the difference to our patients. Importantly they provide the cement that binds our Imaging Services together, across our dynamic and expanding department. They are often the first point of contact for our patients, this may be face to face or by telephone. Good communication skills are essential. The successful candidate will work alongside our multi-professional team assisting in clinics and providing support in clinic for our diagnostic and surgical consultants in ultrasound and clinical outpatient rooms.

Main duties of the job

We are a progressive forward-thinking department with a positive approach at meeting and delivering the current challenges of the NHS. You would join a team within the Breast Services.

• Assist with the running of clinics ensuring patients flow through the clinics in an organised and efficient manner.
• Provide chaperone duties for clinical examinations.
• Ensure clinic paperwork has been correctly filled in and filed in the patient record.
• Ensure clinic rooms are correctly stocked.
• Provide patients with Breast Care leaflets and ordering of leaflets required.

The Imaging Department Assistant would join a team of Breast Service staff and Radiographers to provide symptomatic clinics and a screening service as part of the NBSS (National Breast Screening Service).

In addition to the above duties

• Assist clinicians when they are performing biopsies, ultrasound, drainages and other procedures as required when working at Royal Derby Hospital/Queens Hospital Burton- Breast Care Units.

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work. In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.