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Job overview

To work at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a bank band 7 radiographer. To help maintain an efficient, effective, and high-quality MRI service on a day-to-day basis. To communicate complex and difficult information to patients; to gain their co-operation and understanding especially in stressful situations and ones where there are barriers to communication and specifically to give specialist advice on the services available to them and contact numbers they may require. To work within a team of radiographic (MRI) and clerical staff within the Trust To ensure that all Hospital Safety Policies, Procedures and fire regulations are observed.
Carry out any other duties which may be delegated by the MRI Lead Radiographer

Main duties of the job

• To provide a high standard of expertise and care
• To ensure safe operation of MRI equipment and maintain safety of patients,staff and visitors to the MRI environment.
• To undertake, unaided, all aspects of cardiac MRI imaging, in addition to all other highly specialist scans.
• To coordinate and liaise with the relevant teams in order to perform GA scans unaided.
• To undertake the core training of other MRI radiographers in all MRI studies.
• To help facilitate learning for students and less experienced staff.
• To ensure correct MRI scanning protocols and policies have been implemented and adapted for patients.
• To recognise pathology and adapt scanning techniques where necessary.
• To ensure all images are available on PACS and assigned to the correct worklist.

Working for our organisation

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust’s services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this – particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities, community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.