Radiographic Department Assistant | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 30 April 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £22,816 - £24,336 per annum |
| Oriau: | Full time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 30 May 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Liverpool, L9 7AL |
| Cwmni: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Permanent |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6257593/287-DSS-265-24 |
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We are looking for a caring, enthusiastic and flexible member of staff to join our Cross Sectional Imaging team here at Aintree University Hospitals NHS Trust. We are looking for someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be able to provide high quality patient care. Duties include all aspects of patient care associated with the CT and MR scanning service, cannulation, phlebotomy skills and some administrative duties. Must be able to work work well as part of a multidisciplinary team and also independently. You will need to be computer literate. We work a shift pattern across 7 days.
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Under the supervision of a registered Radiographer assisting the Departmental team in providing the highest possible standard of care for patients and their families/carer. The post holder will undertake a range of tasks and duties as delegated.
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 supervising staff.
- Prepare patients for imaging investigations or procedures on a daily basis in line with established departmental policies and protocols.
- Prepare and maintain the environment for clinical treatments and investigations.
- To escort, chaperone and support patients during treatments, investigations or procedures.
- Supervise junior staff.
- 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 ankle brachial pressure index tests and toe pressure tests in the Vascular Laboratory.
- Undertake patient observations and recording appropriately in all relevant areas of work if required.
- Perform and undertake non-complex wound dressings following the patient’s examination/procedure.
- Perform ECG’s are part of the patient preparation for certain procedures.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 May 2024