Osteoporosis Specialist Nurse
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Medi 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £38,682.00 i £46,580.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 07 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Torquay, TQ2 7AA |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9388-25-1095 |
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To work within the multidisciplinary Osteoporosis Team. Excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure that correspondence is of a high standard. Maintain effective communication with a range of people across all levels, both within and outside the organisation. To liaise and work collaboratively with colleagues within the department. Deliver information to patients in an appropriate format at a level understood by the patient. Ability to take a medical history and decide with the patient on the most appropriate course of action/treatment for their bone health in a clinic situation. Recognise when a condition is outside of the scope of the role/knowledge/experience and seek appropriate advice. To ensure DXA scans are acquired to a high standard to allow appropriate diagnostic reporting of bone density results. To analyse bone density examinations using manufacturer specific software or in-house analysis techniques according to departmental protocols or as instructed. Undertake independent Osteoporosis Management Clinics. Prioritise and adapt approach to situations as they arise. Undertake unsupervised and be accountable for, bone density scans of patients and maintain the highest possible standard of radiography. Able to exercise initiative and act with autonomy when dealing with issues within own specialist areas of competence. Be able to travel between Torbay Hospital and Paignton Health and Wellbeing Centre Assist patients onto and off the scanner bed. Regular need to move and position patients when performing bone density scans as a single operator.