Senior Radiographic Department Assistant | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

This busy, friendly, X-Ray department has a vacancy for a Senior Radiology Assistant. The post will involve rotation to Ultrasound, CT, Fluoroscopy & MRI and other areas within the radiology department.

The department is based across multiple sites including Royal Liverpool Hospital, Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital and multiple community sites. The job role will involve rotation across these sites.

This is an exciting post, requiring multi-disciplinary team working with Radiographers, Sonographers, Nursing and Medical Staff. It will involve caring for a wide range of patients and providing assistance with x-ray procedures.

Scope for weekend, evening and bank holiday working is also expected.

Previous NHS health care experience is an advantage, together with NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in a health care based area is expected.

The job role will include setting up and assisting in sterile procedures, post-procedure aftercare, aiding radiographic staff in both inpatient and outpatient working.

All staff are expected to participate in 7 day working which includes evenings, weekends and bank holidays.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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To provide a wide range of assistance to the Imaging Care Group following well established procedures and protocols

To plan and organise own day to day tasks within the parameters set out by the supervising staff

Prepare patients for imaging investigations or procedures on a daily basis.

Prepare and maintain the environment for clinical treatments and investigations.

To escort, chaperone and support patients during treatments, investigations or procedures.

To ensure the maintenance of clinical care standards and those patients are treated with dignity and respect.

To assist with patient care needs, to include toileting, dressing and assisting the patient on and off the examination table.

Assist with examinations, some of which includes the use of intravenous contrast agents and drugs associated with those individual procedures.

Assist with a variety of interventional procedures on a daily basis dependent on work area.

Cannulation of patients and removal of IV cannulas when required.

Ensure correct labelling of all samples taken and responsibility for delivering samples to the laboratory within identified timescales.

Undertake venepuncture for specific procedures and record results on the relevant IT system.

Undertake patient observations and recording appropriately in all relevant areas of work if required.

Perform ECG's are part of the patient preparation for certain procedures.

Participate in rotation through all sites within LUHFT.