Reporting Radiographer XR

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust; Nuneaton; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Nuneaton seeks a professional to deliver high-quality radiological reporting services. Responsibilities include producing independent reports for XR images, ensuring service quality, and participating in CPD. The candidate will work within a compassionate team dedicated to patient care and service improvement. This role offers a unique opportunity to excel in a vibrant healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in producing independent radiological reports.
• Ability to work autonomously and within competency.
• Strong leadership skills for managing service quality.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-level reporting services for XR images.
• Produce independent free text reports and recommend patient care pathways.
• Oversee quality improvement for radiography services.

Job description

• To provide the Trust with a high-level reporting service for a specified range of XR images.
• Clinical input into the service, including producing independent free text reports of a specified range of XR images; recommending next step in patient pathway where appropriate.
• Post holder is directly responsible to the imaging service manager but is autonomous and responsible for providing written and verified radiological reports in own name and to be accountable for these reports.
• Post holder is responsible for working within own competency and referring any images outside this to a consultant radiologist
• Be part of a team working on quality improvement ensuring consistent high quality XR images from all radiography staff and students.
• First line managerial responsibilities for all aspects of the general service including staff recruitment, appraisals, sickness management, assisting in the monitoring of performance management with regards technique and quality and obtaining & maintaining processes for service user feedback.
• To provide an XR service to the Trust, by providing high quality images and participate in out of hour's rota.
• To develop and improve professional expertise via continuous professional development (CPD).
  Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are