Radiographer in Worcester

Join us at Worcester Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Worcester Royal Hospital is a PFI hospital, the largest of 3 sites providing specialist services for Worcestershire including stroke, cardiac stenting and oncology. The Alexandra Hospital, Redditch serves a population of over 200,000 with over 300 beds supporting elective surgery especially in orthopaedics. This is an exciting time to join the team as services expand with a new ED opened at the beginning of 2024 and we develop our teams in CT, Cardiac and Interventional.

We offer a comprehensive range of services in all areas of general radiography and also NM, CT, MRI, Interventional, cardiac and dexa. Our CT scanners across the county have all been recently replaced with state of the art technology. We are a forward-looking department committed to training and role development. We have advanced practice fluoroscopy radiographers and a large team of reporting radiographers led by a Consultant radiographer.

We are looking for an enthusiastic motivated radiographer with a flexible approach to delivering radiography services keen to develop their skills. We have a fully shifted 7 day rota & out of hours on-call.

Main duties of the job:

• To work as a radiographer to a high professional standard providing assistance and guidance to junior staff in order to maintain these standards.
• Ensure high quality patient care maintaining patient flow and supporting the day to day running of the department whilst maintaining a clean and safe working environment.
• Working in accordance with ionising radiation regulations and in line with other departmental policies and protocols.
• Excellent communication skills that foster good working relationships both within and external to the department.
• Have a flexible approach towards hours of work.

About us:

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond. The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them. We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system. We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Job responsibilities:

• To work as a radiographer to a high professional standard providing assistance and guidance to junior staff.
• Ensure standards of imaging meet the directorate requirement and that policy and protocol is followed.
• To ensure high quality patient care at all times, managing patient flow and waiting times based on clinical priority.
• Seeking advice as required and escalating abnormalities and concerns appropriately.
• Maintaining a safe, clean and tidy work area reporting any incidents through the correct process.
• Radiographers are expected to participate in quality assurance and audit programmes within the departments to ensure robust review of standards and effective use of resources.
• Professionally radiographers will participate in the appraisals having clear objectives to support professional development ensuring they maintain up to date knowledge and expertise meeting HCPC requirements.

Person Specification:

Skills/Knowledge

• Essential: Understand and working knowledge of IR(ME)R
• Assist in maintaining self and others health safety and security
• Excellent communication skills with others on a routine, daily and operational matters fostering good relationships
• Contribute to QA
• Contribute to development of service, committed to quality improvement
• Ensure own personal development
• Perform routine tasks related to radiology
• Good computer literacy
• Able to interpret images to identify need for further imaging/ escalating
• Able to organise self, others and has good initiative and motivation
• Flexible attitude
• High professional standards
• Calm under pressure
• Responds well to change and innovation

Desirable:

• Wider operational experience
• Leadership experience
• SOR IV injection certificate

Qualifications

• Essential: State registration with HCPC
• Degree in Radiography or Diploma of College of Radiographers
• Evidence of CPD

Desirable:

• (none listed)

Experience

• Essential: Recent general, ED, mobile and theatre and fluoroscopy experience in NHS.
• Out of hours working

Desirable:

• Recent experience in a specialty

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.