Radiology Support Officer - Colchester, United Kingdom - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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Colchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual, to join our Radiology Department. You would become involved in enhancing the Radiology service.


Your duties will include:
Providing anefficient, high quality support for patients attending the radiology department.

Assist theRadiographers, Nurses and Radiologist during all CT procedures and to carry out administration duties.

Assistwith patient care.

Update and maintain the Radiology Computer system CRIS.

Deal with telephone queries.


Your duties will include assisting the staff with patient care, involving direct patient contact and assisting Radiology staff within the department.

You must possess excellent communication and Information Technology skills, and be a good team player.

You will need to be able to work under your own initiative but with a high level of supervision and with good support.


Please note the working hours vary on a 3 weekly rotation and consist of 2 weeks of 08:00 till 17:30 and 1 week of 12:30 till 22:00 and 1 weekend in - Maintain stock levels of consumables used in the department.


  • Maintain linen stock levels and change the linen in area of work daily.
  • Maintain general cleanliness within the department.
  • Assist with cleaning and preparation of CT rooms and waiting areas.
  • Assist all patients within the Radiology Department as required.
  • Ensure patients are appropriately changed for their examination, providing assistance prior to and after the examination if required.
  • Input patient information into the CRIS and Medway systems
  • Assist with inputting examination reports on to the Radiology computer system.
  • Treat patients with empathy and respect at all times.
  • Appropriately assist patients in changing.


One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area.

We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents.


Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.

Our Staff Health & Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone.

Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.


To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.


If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.


Main Key Duties areas for the role are:

  • Clinical
  • Administration
  • Communication
For full details of the responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description.
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