Employer: Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Torbay and South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust
Town: Torquay
Salary: Plus on-call and AFC Out of hours pay
Closing: 31/01/2025 23:59
Specialist Interventional Radiographer
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Would you like a change of scenery? Are you looking for a combined imaging role in Interventional Radiology (IR) that’s fast-paced and rewarding? Do you love being part of a multi-disciplinary team and being involved in a wide variety of procedures?
If this is you, then we are offering the opportunity to become part of the Torbay radiology team. Your time will be split between the two Cardiac Catheter Labs, the Hybrid Interventional Theatre suite, and in X-ray.
No previous Interventional experience is required, as training will be provided.
This role is ideal for a diagnostic radiographer either wanting to expand your knowledge and skills into two fast-paced areas of interventional radiology or to transfer your current IR skills and experience to a new setting.
Main duties of the job
* Work within all mandated regulatory guidelines and comply with our policies, protocols, and guidelines, ensuring high quality, safe working practices in a safe working environment.
* Provide the highest quality of care, treating all patients equitably.
* Responsible for the safe and efficient use of expensive and complex technical equipment.
* Management of workload in the room/area they are working in.
* Work as part of our wider Torbay and South Devon team, supporting patient pathways for all patient types, assuring that patients receive the most effective and efficient service.
* Contribute to safe working practices, ensuring full compliance with all local and national guidance and regulatory requirements.
* Supervise and advise trainees and students, taking an active part in their education.
* Responsible for maintaining their registration and portfolio of continual professional development.
* Work within multidisciplinary teams in high-pressure environments for complex procedures.
* Take part in regular audits and SOP creation where needed.
* Commitment to the 24/7 primary PCI on-call service.
* Be part of the 24 hours/7-day provision of service for radiology, which involves working without more senior radiographic supervision on-site.
* Carry out X-ray examinations within the agreed scope of practice for the role, striving to produce images that are of exemplary diagnostic quality.
You will be working alongside, but not limited to, Radiology and Cardiology Nurses, Consultant Radiologists and Cardiologists, Registrars, Physiologists, Radiographers, and the wider theatre team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communication and working relationships
* Demonstrates high level of team working and flexibility within a diverse multi-disciplinary team.
* Communicate effectively with all levels of Trust staff, carers, and relatives to provide best patient care.
* Recognise that radiographers are part of the wider healthcare team supporting all patient pathways, acute patient flow, and day-to-day hospital management.
* Communicate effectively with external support staff/engineers as required.
* Always represent the Trust and Department in a professional manner.
Analytical and judgement
* Interventional procedures can be high pressure and stressful; the post holder must be able to deliver a high level of care and decision making.
* Assess each individual patient and adapt technical aspects of an examination to provide the highest quality diagnostic imaging with the lowest possible dose.
* Assess and maintain imaging quality, performing all necessary processing functions to achieve good quality images.
* As an Operator, assess request details against departmental protocols and provide the appropriate examination.
* Assess the requirements of each individual patient and adapt any part of the visit or examination to give the patient the best experience possible.
* Participate in any preliminary clinical evaluation process (also known previously as ‘red dot’) or extension of that, whilst recognising any limitations in their knowledge or experience.
Planning and organisation
* As a member of the interventional team, you will work autonomously from the service lead and will be required to provide the imaging once the training period is complete.
* Contribute to the efficient and effective delivery of the workload.
* Support junior and senior staff in the day-to-day provision of service.
* Independently manage workload appropriately when working in other departments or out of hours, seeking advice when necessary.
* When working outside of working hours, prioritise workload appropriately, considering requirements of all patients and referrers.
* Pro-actively seek fill time between patients in the most effective way for the service and in whichever part of the service requires support.
Physical skills
* Possess a high degree of dexterity and coordination for the safe operation of the imaging equipment.
* A large proportion of your working hours will be wearing lead PPE.
* Moving and transferring of patients in all departments.
Patient and client care
* Demonstrate a thorough understanding of physiological, social, and psychological needs of all patients and their carers, responding appropriately to the care needs of all patients.
* Communicate appropriately and effectively, utilising verbal, non-verbal, and written means as required.
* Proactively work with service users and the public to develop and enhance the services they deliver.
* Contribute towards any urgent or emergency care that is required (e.g. resuscitation) where they have been trained to do so.
* Work autonomously within a given scope of practice and the scope of IR(ME)R (Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations) entitlement.
* Deliver high-quality medical imaging with the ability to apply knowledge and practical experience to undertake a wide range of diagnostic techniques and examinations, modifying technique as required.
* Demonstrate optimisation of the delivery of radiation exposures in line with the principles of ‘as low as reasonably practicable’ (ALARP).
* Give advice to other healthcare workers and professionals on general radiation protection issues and be able to explain the general risks of radiation to patients.
* Adhere to IRR 2017 and ensure radiation protection of all employees.
* Work in line with current professional body guidance and document reasons for decisions when practice deviates from this.
* Use knowledge of anatomy and pathology to recognise the need for urgent interventions for optimal patient care and take appropriate actions.
Policy and service development
* Share knowledge and experience with other practitioners, student radiographers, and other professionals.
* Support service development to provide the most efficient service whilst maintaining the highest levels of quality and care.
* Support creation and maintenance of any documentation as appropriate and when required.
* Highlight potential service improvements or efficiencies via the appropriate route.
* Be proactive in raising concerns about patient care and service improvement suggestions, following these up as a duty of care.
* Take responsibility to feedback gaps, omissions, or errors in any radiology documentation or procedures, including opportunity for improvement.
* Follow departmental policies, contribute to discussions on service/policy development, and provide comments.
Finance, equipment, and other resources
* Responsible for safe use of all equipment used within the remit of the role.
* Highlight own training deficiencies in relation to any equipment.
* Shared responsibility to monitor equipment during day-to-day activity and to report any issues at the earliest stage.
* Shared responsibility for appropriate care of equipment, including day-to-day housekeeping.
* There are no financial responsibilities.
People management and training
* Supervise trainees/students proactively offering training and guidance related to tasks and roles that are within the post holder’s scope of practice.
* Recognise that when supervising trainees/students, responsibility for patient activity remains with the post holder.
* Contribute to feedback to trainees/students.
* Proactively support work experience and other similar programmes.
Information technology and administrative duties
* Be familiar with all IT systems that support the radiology/cardiology service and workflows.
* Data quality will be maintained by compliance with all data entry requirements in the IT systems relevant to the role.
* Comply with the Trust’s Information governance policies.
* Responsibility to report data entry errors that have been saved against a patient record.
Research and development
* The post holder will support any research and development activity as required.
* Actively contribute towards and support a research-centric culture through engagement and support of research activities.
* Participate in quality management, including quality control, quality assurance, audit, clinical governance, and the use of appropriate outcome measures within scope of practice.
Freedom to act
* Entitled as an IR(ME)R (Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations) Operator with statutory responsibilities inherent in the role.
* Undertake work as a diagnostic radiographer within scope of practice, in line with HCPC and SoR codes of conduct, and local guidelines and policies. Regular feedback given by a range of supervisors.
* Share knowledge and experience with other practitioners, assistant practitioners, student radiographers, and other trainees.
* Entitled as a non-medical referrer for requesting post-pacemaker Chest X-rays to aid the patient pathway. Training provided.
Person specification
* HCPC Registration
* State Registered qualification in Radiography, BSc or DCR
* Previous IR and/or Cath lab experience
* PgC Level Qualification relevant to role
* NHS experience
You will be joining the organisation at an exciting time. As the first fully integrated care organisation in England, we are working to improve the way we deliver safe, high-quality health and social care. We have a positive and vibrant working atmosphere, and we are proud of our investment in our staff both in terms of developing potential career skills and valuing people.
If you provide support to a family member or friend with health or care needs, we aim to be a Carer-friendly employer. We have a ‘Staff Carers’ policy which includes flexible working where possible and a Carer’s Passport scheme that links you into support and discounts.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
* We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications. Please apply promptly.
* Please read the job description and tailor your application to reflect the role.
* Correspondence will be via Trac, text, and email. Please check your email and Trac account regularly.
* Applicants with no previous NHS experience will ordinarily be appointed to the minimum of the band.
* If you have not received an invitation to interview within 28 days of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
* It is your responsibility to assist us in the timely receipt of appropriate references.
The Trust is committed to preventing discrimination, valuing diversity, and achieving equality of opportunity. No person (staff, patient, or public) will receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of the nine protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. If you require support you can obtain this from our Equality Business Forum which has representatives from all protected groups.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name: Amanda Thackray
Job title: Superintendent Interventional Radiographer
Email address: amanda.thackray1@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01803655622
Additional information: Please contact me via email in the first instance as I work clinically too. We can then talk over the phone if required and arrange a visit to the department.
Department visits would be Tuesday-Friday 9-5.
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