Job summary
Cleveland Clinic London are looking to recruit a Senior Radiographer Modality Lead MRI to join our Imaging team, with a competitive salary range on offer.
This is a full time role working between 08:00am to 20:00pm including weekend, overtime and on-call shifts.
This role could potentially have a 24hour service in the near future.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Radiographer Modality Lead will work as part of a team and under the overall guidance of the Radiology Manager to ensure the highest standard of service to patients, consultants and visitors. They will act in accordance with the standards of conduct, performance and ethics set by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What will your duties include?
- 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".
- Develops Caregivers with effective coaching, counselling 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.
- Provides direct patient care in specialty areas. Flexible approach to working hours, prepared to participate fully in shifts, extended working days and oncall working rotation and schedules as may be required.
- Undertake relevant training and competency assessments, strictly adhering to agreed protocols and procedures. To supply medicines using Patient Group Directions, without compromising patient safety. This involves ascertaining the patients suitability for drugs and taking joint responsibility for the potential complications under the indirect supervision of radiologists. To be aware of the clinical hazards and emergencies that such drugs can induce.
- Responsible for ensuring that all persons are safe to enter the controlled area, that all unauthorised persons are supervised at all times, 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 / manufacturers 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What will your duties include?
- 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".
- Develops Caregivers with effective coaching, counselling 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.
- Provides direct patient care in specialty areas. Flexible approach to working hours, prepared to participate fully in shifts, extended working days and oncall working rotation and schedules as may be required.
- Undertake relevant training and competency assessments, strictly adhering to agreed protocols and procedures. To supply medicines using Patient Group Directions, without compromising patient safety. This involves ascertaining the patients suitability for drugs and taking joint responsibility for the potential complications under the indirect supervision of radiologists. To be aware of the clinical hazards and emergencies that such drugs can induce.
- Responsible for ensuring that all persons are safe to enter the controlled area, that all unauthorised persons are supervised at all times, 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 / manufacturers 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimally a BSc(Hons) Radiography, DCR(D) Diploma of the College of Radiographers or equivalent required.
- Current valid Healthcare Professional Council (HCPC) registration required.
- Trained to cannulate and administer contrast agents required.
Experience
Essential
- 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.
- Must be able to work in a stressful environment.
- Excellent oral and written communication, organisational and time management skills.
- Must be able to demonstrate competency in IT.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimally a BSc(Hons) Radiography, DCR(D) Diploma of the College of Radiographers or equivalent required.
- Current valid Healthcare Professional Council (HCPC) registration required.
- Trained to cannulate and administer contrast agents required.
Experience
Essential
- 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.
- Must be able to work in a stressful environment.
- Excellent oral and written communication, organisational and time management skills.
- Must be able to demonstrate competency in IT.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
