Job summary
- Main area
- Radiology
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday (08.30-17.00))
- Job ref
- 287-DSS-363-24
- Employer
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Liverpool University Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Radiographic Department Assistant
Band 3
Job overview
Band 3 - Senior Radiographic Department Assistant
This busy, friendly, X-Ray department has a vacancy for a Senior Radiology Assistant. The post will involve rotation to Ultrasound, CT, Fluoroscopy & MRI and other areas within the radiology department.
The department is largely based on the RLUH site but additional work is carried out at Broad green Hospital and the community.
This is an exciting post, requiring multi-disciplinary team working with Radiographers, Sonographers, Nursing and Medical Staff. It will involve caring for a wide range of patients and providing assistance with x-ray procedures.
Scope for weekend, evening and bank holiday working is also expected.
Previous NHS health care experience is an advantage, together with NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in a health care based area is expected.
Main duties of the job
The job role will include setting up and assisting in sterile procedures, post-procedure aftercare, aiding radiographic staff in both inpatient and outpatient working.
All staff are expected to participate in 7 day working which includes evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a wide range of assistance to the Imaging Care Group following well established procedures and protocols
To plan and organise own day to day tasks within the parameters set out by the supervising staff
Prepare patients for imaging investigations or procedures on a daily basis.
Prepare and maintain the environment for clinical treatments and investigations.
To escort, chaperone and support patients during treatments, investigations or procedures.
To ensure the maintenance of clinical care standards and those patients are treated with dignity and respect.
To assist with patient care needs, to include toileting, dressing and assisting the patient on and off the examination table.
Assist with examinations, some of which includes the use of intravenous contrast agents and drugs associated with those individual procedures.
Assist with a variety of interventional procedures on a daily basis dependent on work area.
Cannulation of patients and removal of IV cannulas when required.
Ensure correct labelling of all samples taken and responsibility for delivering samples to the laboratory within identified timescales.
Undertake venepuncture for specific procedures and record results on the relevant IT system.
Undertake patient observations and recording appropriately in all relevant areas of work if required.
Perform ECG's are part of the patient preparation for certain procedures.
For full details of the post please refer to the job description and personal specification.
Person specification
Other
Essential criteria
- Supportive of colleagues and patients.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients and staff of varying levels of understanding
- Basic computer skills
- Ability to undertake training to meet the competencies required for this role
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a hospital setting
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An understanding of direct patient care.
- An understanding of patient confidentiality
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 (or equivalent) in Healthcare.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mrs Alison Darton
- Job title
- Head of Ultrasound and Healthcare support workers
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 706 2783
- Additional information
Mrs Rachel Brown
Lead Sonographer
0151 529 8990
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