Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
An exciting opportunity for a motivated reporting radiographer to join our team of advanced practitioners has arisen. Your role will be reporting x-rays across various work streams, providing a service seven days a week.
You will be expected to:
1. Carry out the full range of imaging examinations to a consistently high standard, ensuring compliance with imaging protocols.
2. Teach and supervise radiographers, students, and apprentices, working in conjunction with the radiologist.
3. Assume responsibility for reporting own workload across a range of patient pathways and liaise with other healthcare professionals, providing management/operational guidance within X-ray.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role are defined into four key areas:
1. Clinical: Undertake examinations autonomously and report from agreed referral sources, ensuring that reporting is undertaken within scope of practice and ability using a high level of specialist knowledge and acting within departmental governance.
2. Research/audit/service review and evaluation: Participate in audit, research and benchmarking activities to ensure effective safe and evidence-based practice is delivered with high standards of patient care.
3. Education: Provide specialist advice and support to students, junior staff and the multidisciplinary team and advise on all radiographic aspects of imaging procedures.
4. Managerial: Assist the wider management team in radiology, with high level workload, investigations and incidents.
About us
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Job responsibilities
In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
* Work at a high level of autonomous X-ray expertise and be able to work within scope of practice.
* Independently report on x-ray images as defined by scope of practice.
* Promote collaboration and liaise with referring clinicians.
* Work effectively across departments/external services.
* Make clinical decisions to advise further investigations and onward treatment.
* Awareness of turnaround times for reports, being able to prioritise and manage workload effectively. Deal with urgent issues as they arise.
* Provide training and education in a range of subjects.
* Provide managerial support when required.
* Able to deliver core and expanded skills.
* Able to demonstrate flexibility in working patterns and practices.
* Able to support colleagues, patients and relatives/carers in distressing circumstances.
* Support a contractual 7-day working pattern.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Qualified reporting in MSK or CXR and experience in the role.
* Qualification reporting in both MSK and CXR and experience in the role.
Experience
* Working as a reporting radiographer with NHS experience.
* Use of PACS systems and alert software.
* Working as a reporting radiographer in a major centre.
* Use of GE PACS, CRIS and conserus software.
Judgement Skills
* Experience of wider role around patient care i.e. RLD, CXR to CT pathways.
* Leading the wider role changes.
Other
* Teamwork, patient-centered care, and ability to support a 7-day service.
* Leadership and research qualities.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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