Radiographic Department Assistant - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
2 weeks ago
Description
Band - Senior Radiology AssistantWorking pattern - Monday - Friday hours per week
This busy, friendly, X-Ray department has a vacancy for a Senior Radiology Assistant. The post will involve rotation to Ultrasound, CT, Fluoroscopy & MRI and other areas within the radiology department.
The department is largely based on the RLUH site but additional work is carried out at Broad green Hospital and the community.
Scope for weekend, evening and bank holiday working is also expected.
Previous NHS health care experience is an advantage, together with NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in a health care based area is expected.
The job role will include setting up and assisting in sterile procedures, post-procedure aftercare, aiding radiographic staff in both inpatient and outpatient working.
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.
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 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.
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.
For full details of the post please refer to the job description and personal specification.
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