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Reporting Radiographer XR

Employer
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Location
Nuneaton
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 per annum
Closing date
22 Oct 2024
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Profession
Radiographer
Grade
Band 7
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Job Overview

Job Title: Reporting Radiographer XR

Hours per week: 37.5 Hours p/w

Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent

Salary: Band 7 £46,148 - 52,089 per annum

Closing Date: 20th October 2024

Interview Date: 30th October 2024

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

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Main duties of the job

  • 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).

About us

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, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

If you are applying for a Domestic Assistant or Health Care Assistant role you may be eligible for the refer a friend scheme - find out more here: https://www.geh.nhs.uk/about-us/people-and-workforce/vacancies/refer-friend-scheme

Job description

Job responsibilities

Autonomous practitioner within a multidiscipline team responsible for writing and verifying a radiological report of a range of specified XRs in a final, free text version using a voice recognition system.

Responsible for making clinical decisions which may have direct impact on patient management and treatment contributing to an effective care pathway for the patients.

Recommending next step in patient care and requesting next step in imaging for trauma patients.

Follow protocols for communication of unexpected clinical findings which may involve additional imaging.

Provide training and assessment of under graduate radiography students, APs and radiographers as required.

Produce images of sufficient quality for the diagnostic and treatment process in accordance with professional, technical and legal standards and act as point of reference for technique advice for radiographers.

Contribute to continual improvement of image quality within the department.

Functioning in accordance with best practice and in a manner that meets professional, departmental and legal standards and requirements.

Provide specialist knowledge, verbal or written opinions/advice to medical staff and others as required.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • oIn depth knowledge of anatomy physiology and pathology and imaging protocols according to specialty
  • oKnowledge of current radiographic and wider health care issues
  • oExperience of team leadership


Qualifications

Essential

  • oBSc or equivalent in diagnostic radiography
  • oPost graduate qualifications or equivalent qualification in area of specialty reporting
  • oState Registration with the Health Professionals council
  • oEvidence of ongoing CPD


Desirable

  • oStudent clinical assessors course


Skills

Essential

  • oAdvanced skills in a specialist area, i.e. film reporting in chest and abdominal, appendicular and axial skeleton
  • oAbility to use initiative, analyse and solve problems, make decisions
  • oTo use analytical and judgement skills to interpret highly complex images and therefore be able to differentiate between normal and abnormal appearances of the anatomy demonstrated.
  • oExcellent interpersonal and communication skills, be able to communicate to a broad audience.
  • oAbility to cope with work pressures and manage time effectively


Desirable

  • oPresentation skills


Employer details

Employer name

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Address

George Eliot Hospital

College Street

Nuneaton

CV10 7DJ

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230-36774611-URG

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