Senior Diagnostic Radiographer | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 10 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 10 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Colchester, CO4 5JL |
| Cwmni: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7605431/432-HR865-25 |
Crynodeb
We have a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, and skilled Radiographer to contribute to the delivery of a high-quality imaging service. You will play a key role in supporting a busy and diverse department that performs a wide range of examinations, including general X-ray, Theatres, Cardiac, CT (including CT cardiac and colons) and Interventional Radiology. Your base will be Colchester Hospital including travel to our Clacton and Harwich Hospitals.
You will join a department that supports its staff to pursue academic courses and develop their careers within a supportive and friendly environment. We are a teaching department and part of this role will be supervising our students and apprentices. In addition you will be an effective leader of the team and wider multi-professional healthcare team.
You will be an autonomous practitioner with proven post-registration experience who provides an effective, high quality individualised care to patients and relatives/carers and to contribute to the continuing development of radiology practice. It is desirable to have specialist knowledge of CT, Cardiac Catheterisation or Interventional Radiology procedures and practices.
It is a requirement to be flexible to undertake a 7 day rostered week, including lates, nights, weekend and bank holidays.
If you’re an experienced Radiographer looking to take the next step in your career and want to be part of a growing, innovative service, we’d love to hear from you.
• Undertake all diagnostic imaging procedures to a high standard, ensuring optimum patient care and compliance with ionising radiation regulations across the imaging modalities in the Trust and in satellite departments without direct supervision.
• Act with delegated authority as practitioner and modifies agreed protocols, undertaking most appropriate radiographic views to obtain diagnostic examinations
• Deputise for area lead radiographer taking responsibility of managing the area on a day to day basis in their absence
• Act as point of contact for general imaging enquiries acting appropriately, sensitively and professionally to ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times, seeking more senior support if appropriate
• Communicate decisions and outcomes from enquiries to the relevant senior staff member
• Liaise with peers of all professional groups, radiologists, other medical officers and technical staff in the delivery of high quality patient care
• Supervise junior radiographic, and support staff including undergraduates, apprentices and those on clinical placement.
• Ensure adherence to Radiation Protection legislation/governance and report breaches using the DATIX incident reporting system, including notifying senior staff/RPS as appropriate.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Find out about living and working here -www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Sunday 23 Nov 2025