Job summary
- Main area
- Interventional Radiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 230-45571826-UEC-A
- Employer
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Town
- Nuneaton
- Salary
- £29,970 - £44,962 Dependant on experience
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/05/2025
Employer heading

Interventional Radiology ODP
NHS AfC: Band 6
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.
The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
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Job overview
Interventional Radiology ODP
37.5 hours per week
Permanent
Salary: £29,970 - £44,962 (Dependant on experience)
Closing Date: 1st May 2025
Interview Date: 15th May 2025
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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The George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Radiology Department currently has a vacancy for an Interventional Radiology Operating Department Practitioner.
We are looking for a fully qualified and HCPC registered ODP to join a high performing Interventional Radiology service which is modernising and forward thinking in its approach to patient care and service delivery. This is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to develop their career and skills within this imaging specialty, delivering the highest standards of care during diagnostic investigations and therapeutic interventions.
Main duties of the job
The position requires working in a small multidisciplinary team of Radiographers, Consultant Radiologists, Assistant Practitioners and Radiology Department Assistants. The role includes working as scrub assistant for sterile interventional procedures and as a circulating practitioner for recording patients’ observations, administration of drugs, managing patient care and providing expertise in anaesthetics and post-operative recovery.
The role will involve working closely with the current IR team to provide highly specialised patient care for patients undergoing angiography, angioplasty, and other diagnostic and interventional procedures.
The successful candidate is also expected to participate in enhanced practice, with a Radiographer led PICC service which commenced in 2022, and other extended scope services planned.
Providing relevant data for audit may also be required, as will being responsible for ordering of routine and ad-hoc stock and undertaking audits within IR, presenting findings at the UEC governance meetings.The successful candidate will demonstrate a high degree of professionalism, enthusiasm and team working ability, as well as being able to establish and maintain good working relationships with the IR team and wider department, directorate and hospital. You will have good communication skills, be flexible and self-motivated.
The prospective candidate will be working with a state-of-the-art Philips Azurion Gen 3, due for completion in June 2025.
Working for our organisation
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:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquility garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide specialist care and support to all patients and users of the Radiology service primarily within interventional radiology (elective and emergency procedures) ensuring dignity and privacy
- To ensure the maintenance of a high quality patient focussed care at all times through the effective leadership, management of staff and resources
- To provide effective leadership and to act as a good role model, working with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and co-ordinate all aspects of care in the best interests of the patient and family
- To provide supervision, support and education to qualified and unqualified staff
- To promote the role of the operating department practitioner
- To communicate effectively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to co-ordinate all aspects of patient care
- To liaise and work closely with the person taking continuing responsibility for the IR suite
- To accept personal responsibility and accountability for infection prevention and control practice
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Band 6 experience within the perioperative environment
- Registered ODP with the HCPC
- Scrub trained
- Experienced recovery practitioner
- NHS experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of clinical audit
- Ability to lead a team
- Good organisational skills
- Interventional Radiology experience
- Cannulation/Vasular access skills
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Haleem Ahmed
- Job title
- IR Lead Radiographer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02476 153192
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