Salary: £44,000 plus, depending on experience
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: 33 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7HY
Contract: Full time, permanent
What are we looking for?
Cleveland Clinic London are looking to recruit a Senior II Radiographer Rotational MRI to join our Imaging Team, with a competitive salary range on offer.
The department currently run a 24-hour service, therefore we require caregivers (staff) to work a mixture of long days and night shifts.
What makes us different?
Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.
What will your duties include?
* Contribute to the monitoring, evaluating and reporting status of the CT departmental operations. Act as a liaison internally and externally.
* Professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of own practice, working within national legislation, departmental and hospital wide policy, Code of Conduct and professional guidelines ensuring delivery of imaging services emulates "best practices"
* Assist with the development of Caregivers with effective coaching and mentoring.
* Assist Radiology Leads to ensure Caregivers are trained on new equipment.
* Maintains a work environment that fosters quality care delivery, accountability, and employee satisfaction.
* Assist implementation of new patient care services to keep the Institute market competitive and produce positive clinical outcomes; keeps abreast of current practice trends.
* Responsible for ensuring that all persons are safe to enter the controlled area, that all unauthorised persons are always supervised, and that all MRI policies, procedures and risk assessments are adhered to at all times.
* As a category (a) Authorised person take full responsibility for the presence of unauthorised persons for the duration of their presence in the controlled area, supervise all non-category (a) persons entering the controlled area, and control the equipment entering the Inner Controlled Area on a day-to-day basis.
* Vigilantly reduce the serious and potentially fatal risk from projectiles by checking and supervising all objects entering the Controlled Area and by checking all non-authorised persons garments before allowing entry to the Controlled Area.
* Minimise the risk of potential burns from the radio-frequency field by the application of appropriate techniques, advising and monitoring ‘high risk’ patients, providing specialist advice to clinicians and reporting all adverse incident using the Hospital Adverse Incident Reporting System.
* Responsible for effectively and diligently screening and supervising all patients prior to scanning by verifying the Patient Screening Questionnaire responses, authorising certain implants as safe / not safe to scan as per written protocols, reviewing case notes to research surgical implants, and research MRI compatibility of various implants with the MR safety database / manufacturer’s instructions.
* Advise radiologists on the technical capabilities of the scanners and suggest appropriate protocols and sequences to best demonstrate common pathologies.
* To have a robust knowledge of all potential MRI emergencies and how to manage each emergency whilst ensuring MRI safety is not compromised, utilising safe moving and handling techniques and ensuring only MRI compatible equipment is taken into the Controlled Area.
What we need from you?
* Minimally a BSc(Hons) Radiography, DCR(D) Diploma of the College of Radiographers or equivalent required.
* Current valid Healthcare Professional Council (HCPC) registration required.
* Ability to speak and write in English at the equivalent to level of 7 of the International English Language Testing System or the Occupational English Test (OET) at level B.
* Highly developed specialist Diagnostic Radiology knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.
* Relevant personal history of continuing professional development.
* Understanding of radiographic equipment in the context of how images are produced for both ionising and non-ionising radiation imaging methods and how images are appropriately shared and/or stored.
* Knowledge of the application of different Imaging procedures and the associated risks/benefits and precautions/safety requirements.
* Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgement, and the ability to work autonomously.
* Requires high degree of dexterity to produce materials on a computer
* Manage time and resources and prioritise workload according to clinical needs.
* Build and sustain professional relationships and work independently, as part of the imaging team, as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Knowledge of the process for escalation of unexpected findings identified on images to ensure optimum patient care.
* Requires physical manipulation of objects, fine tools/materials, and people; narrow margins for error; accuracy and high degree of precision.
* Requires frequent sitting, standing, and walking.
What can we offer you?
As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest profits back into our organisation. This means we can offer tailored support and development for caregivers, alongside benefits such as:
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Auto-Enrolment of 5% pension - Cleveland Clinic contributes 10% through Salary Exchange
• Life Assurance, Private Medical & Dental Insurance and Eye Care contributions
• 24/7 Holistic Employee Assistance Programme
• Child Care Vouchers