Job Overview
We are looking to expand our CT team due to expanding services and have vacancies for experienced and highly skilled Radiographers to join our friendly and forward-thinking Radiology team at our sites including Wexham Park Hospital, Heatherwood Elective Centre and the newly opening Slough CDC at Upton. This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious Radiographer with proven team leading skills to deepen their CT knowledge, leadership skills and develop their career.
The newly built Heatherwood Hospital, which opened in April 2022, houses a new Radiology department including a GE CT Revolution in the cross sectional suite.
The role will require individuals to cover a range of shifts across all sites, including the provision of night duties, weekend shifts and extended days.
Main duties of the job
There is a shift system in operation as the scanners operate 12 hours per day. This includes a dedicated Emergency Scanner in the A&E Department at Wexham Park Hospital, operating a 24 hour service, 7 days a week.
Successful candidates will be exposed to a large variety of CT examinations including oncology, cardiac CT, MSK, vascular, intervention, CT Colonography and trauma work on our GE revolutions scanners on our acute Wexham site which also operates a 24/7 CT service. We recently installed a new GE Ascend scanner with effortless workflow packages.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The post holder will be an experienced Radiographer working autonomously, being accountable for your own professional actions.
You will supervise, mentor and appraise less experienced CT Radiographers, Apprentice Radiographers and Students.
For full details of the main role responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Some of the key tasks required for the role include:
- Responsible for supporting the CT Lead Radiographer
- To assist in the training and supervising of the Radiographers and RDAs across the 4 CT scanners
- To ensure equipment is used in a safe and correct manner
- The post holder will be expected to work at all sites
- Commitment to shift work over a 7-day period
- To ensure that image quality is of a high standard and audit this as appropriate
- To work in accordance with the local rules, Ionising Radiation regulations, Health and Safety at Work Act, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations, and the Trust’s Policies and Procedures
- To report promptly any equipment faults to the CT Lead Radiographer
- When required to liaise with equipment manufacturers and users and arrange for repair and servicing equipment
- To participate in Clinical Audit when required
- To ensure the maintenance of routine stock level
- To undertake IPDR on specified members of staff
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma of the College of Radiographers or Degree equivalent
- HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
- SOR Accredited I.V. Cannulation Certificate
Experience/knowledge
Essential criteria
- Cross sectional CT experience
- Wide ranging general radiography experience
Desirable criteria
Skills
Essential criteria
- PACS and EPR Experience
- Computer literate
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of NHS Challenges
- Aware of CT Service Challenges
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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