Radiology Co-Ordinator

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Ashington; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria HealthCare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an administrative support professional to assist in providing a high-quality radiographic service. The role involves clerical duties, managing the reception area, booking and verifying patient details, and ensuring accurate data entry into the Trust PAS system.

You will interact with clinical and admin teams to keep radiology services running smoothly. The post requires proactive coordination of patient appointments and enquiries, with

Responsibilities

• Assist in the provision and delivery of a high-quality radiographic service within Northumbria HealthCare NHS Foundation Trust while adhering to trust and departmental policies.
• Carry out general admin and clerical duties and manage the reception area.
• Book appointments and verify patient details, ensuring accurate data is recorded in the PAS system.
• Act as first point of contact for the department on arrival and coordinate patient appointments and enquiries.
• Upload CDs with DICOM imaging onto PACS and transfer images via the Image Exchange Portal (IEP).

Job description

To assist in the provision and delivery of a high-quality radiographic service within Northumbria HealthCare NHS Foundation Trust whilst adhering to all trust and departmental policies and procedures.Carrying out general admin and clerical duties and managing the reception area. There will be a requirement to book appointments ensuring patient's details are correct. Ensure all relevant data is recorded into the Trust PAS system capturing attendances performed outside of a clinic., "Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made."

The successful candidate will work closely with the clinical teams on site and with the admin teams across the Trust., To assist in the provision and delivery of a high-quality radiographic service within Northumbria Health Care Trust whilst adhering to all trust and departmental policies and procedures.

To act as the first contact for the department upon a patient's arrival, carrying out clerical and reception duties.

Ensuring patient details are correct, with some requirement to book appointments.

To participate in all aspects of the administration service within Radiology

To act as a first point of contact for the department and co-ordinate patient appointments and enquiries using initiative to discern between queries ensuring minimum interruption to the service.

Alert management of urgent reports

Use the Image Exchange Portal (IEP) for transfer of images both to and from ELHT.

To upload CDs with DICOM imaging onto PACS.

To ensure all required imaging for MDT meetings is made available to internal and external clinical teams in a timely manner.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.

We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.