Job summary
- 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).
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for maintaining patient records pertaining to imaging examinations.
- Written and verified radiological reports in own name and to be accountable for these reports.
- Follow the protocols that are in place for team to comply with legal record keeping requirements.
- Ensure Radiography staff follow protocol and work with and instruct staff on protocol requirements if there are knowledge gaps.
- Maintain patient confidentiality.
- Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
- Quality
- Responsible for quality audits within the department.
- Obtaining & maintaining processes for service user feedback
- Key Results Areas
- 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.
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, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Organise the efficient control of workflow patterns within the department when acting as senior of the day.
- Perform all administrative tasks required, including patient reception & data entry onto Radiology Information System and update of patient records.
- Undertake CPD and support other staff to meet their CPD requirements.
- Record relevant clinical observations.
- Organisation of radiographers, assistants and students.
- Appraisal, sickness, competency documentation.
- Collation and distribution of audit results
Quality and Safety
- Ensure safe working practices and a safe working environment including reporting of equipment faults/medical physics issues and ensuring these are resolved in a timely way.
- Responsible for reporting safety incidents to the appropriate body and senior management.
- Be familiar with and apply current safety guidelines for magnetic resonance imaging, Health and Safety policies and manual handling policies.
- Be responsible for and conduct quality audits identified through discussion with senior management and reporting team.
- Assess and maintain imaging quality, performing all necessary processing functions to achieve good quality images.
- Ensure both imaging identification and patient documentation is accurate and that computer progression is timely.
- Participate in departmental quality projects.
- Ensure service user feedback is regularly monitored and any issues or improvements acted upon.
- Maintain and uphold trust values and standards.
- Maintain trusts requirements for stat/man training and appraisals.
- Maintain professional standards and uphold professional codes of conduct.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Organise the efficient control of workflow patterns within the department when acting as senior of the day.
- Perform all administrative tasks required, including patient reception & data entry onto Radiology Information System and update of patient records.
- Undertake CPD and support other staff to meet their CPD requirements.
- Record relevant clinical observations.
- Organisation of radiographers, assistants and students.
- Appraisal, sickness, competency documentation.
- Collation and distribution of audit results
Quality and Safety
- Ensure safe working practices and a safe working environment including reporting of equipment faults/medical physics issues and ensuring these are resolved in a timely way.
- Responsible for reporting safety incidents to the appropriate body and senior management.
- Be familiar with and apply current safety guidelines for magnetic resonance imaging, Health and Safety policies and manual handling policies.
- Be responsible for and conduct quality audits identified through discussion with senior management and reporting team.
- Assess and maintain imaging quality, performing all necessary processing functions to achieve good quality images.
- Ensure both imaging identification and patient documentation is accurate and that computer progression is timely.
- Participate in departmental quality projects.
- Ensure service user feedback is regularly monitored and any issues or improvements acted upon.
- Maintain and uphold trust values and standards.
- Maintain trusts requirements for stat/man training and appraisals.
- Maintain professional standards and uphold professional codes of conduct.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- In depth knowledge of anatomy physiology and pathology and imaging protocols according to specialty
- Knowledge of current radiographic and wider health care issues
- Experience of team leadership
- Working knowledge of safety guidelines for magnetic resonance imaging
Desirable
- Minimum of 3 years' experience as senior radiographer
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- BSc or equivalent in diagnostic radiography
- Post graduate qualifications or equivalent qualification in area of specialty reporting
- State Registration with the Health Professionals council
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
Desirable
- Student clinical assessors course
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Advanced skills in a specialist area, i.e. film reporting in chest and abdominal, appendicular and axial skeleton
- Ability to use initiative, analyse and solve problems, make decisions
- To 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.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, be able to communicate to a broad audience
- Ability to cope with work pressures and manage time effectively
Desirable
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to provide and receive complex information requiring empathy and understanding
- Confidence to work autonomously with little or no support
- Motivated team worker
- To maintain a flexible approach and to develop the role according to service needs.
- Ability to make decisions or recommendations in the best interest of the patient; for example deciding if emergency treatment or urgent referral is needed.
Other
Essential
- Flexibility for 24/7/365 service provision
- Able to exert frequent moderate physical effort throughout a duty e.g. positioning and manoeuvring patients and equipment with and without mechanical aids.
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective Open Communication
- Excellence & Safety in all that we do
- Challenge but Support
- Expect Respect & Dignity
- Local Healthcare that inspires confidence
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- In depth knowledge of anatomy physiology and pathology and imaging protocols according to specialty
- Knowledge of current radiographic and wider health care issues
- Experience of team leadership
- Working knowledge of safety guidelines for magnetic resonance imaging
Desirable
- Minimum of 3 years' experience as senior radiographer
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- BSc or equivalent in diagnostic radiography
- Post graduate qualifications or equivalent qualification in area of specialty reporting
- State Registration with the Health Professionals council
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
Desirable
- Student clinical assessors course
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Advanced skills in a specialist area, i.e. film reporting in chest and abdominal, appendicular and axial skeleton
- Ability to use initiative, analyse and solve problems, make decisions
- To 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.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, be able to communicate to a broad audience
- Ability to cope with work pressures and manage time effectively
Desirable
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to provide and receive complex information requiring empathy and understanding
- Confidence to work autonomously with little or no support
- Motivated team worker
- To maintain a flexible approach and to develop the role according to service needs.
- Ability to make decisions or recommendations in the best interest of the patient; for example deciding if emergency treatment or urgent referral is needed.
Other
Essential
- Flexibility for 24/7/365 service provision
- Able to exert frequent moderate physical effort throughout a duty e.g. positioning and manoeuvring patients and equipment with and without mechanical aids.
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective Open Communication
- Excellence & Safety in all that we do
- Challenge but Support
- Expect Respect & Dignity
- Local Healthcare that inspires confidence
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
