Radiographic Department Assistant - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

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.

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