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This unique role offers rotation between two busy central London teaching hospitals: University College London Hospital (UCLH) and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), located just 20 minutes’ walk away. This is an ideal opportunity for a radiographer looking to enhance existing Radiographic skills & develop specialist paediatric Radiography skills in both a busy teaching hospital and a specialist paediatric centre.

This role would suit those with significant postgraduate Radiography experience, utilising their clinical skills in a supportive and innovative department, where maintaining an excellent diagnostic service to patients and their families is key.

You will be working closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team in providing this service. Good communication skills and excellent team working abilities are essential for this post.

The successful candidate will rotate through UCLH Satellite Sites, all within 20 mins walk of UCL in addition to GOSH.

The role involves participation in the out of hours rota delivering OOH CT Service at UCLH.

This is an exciting role for a dedicated and enthusiastic radiographer with desirable enhanced practice qualification.

You will be providing a high-quality diagnostic service whilst maintaining a safe working Imaging environment.Assess a referral or request form, and justify it under radiographic regulations and locally agreed protocols.

• Prioritise patients to ensure optimum efficiency and service quality.
• Liaise with referring clinicians to clarify or discuss requests for complex radiographic procedures.
• Act as a point of specialist advice for referrers, other clinical staff, patients and their relatives.
• Appropriately adapt standard techniques to ensure that radiographic procedures are undertaken appropriately for patients with limited capabilities.
• Undertake the more complex radiological procedures, utilising skills, knowledge and experience, calculating and setting exposure parameters and doses.
• You will ensure adherence to IR(ME)R 2017 across the department.
• You should have a flexible and pragmatic approach to your work, exceptional organisational skills that will enable you to manage a varied workload ensuring safe and clinical practices.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital
• Eastman Dental Hospital
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospitals at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.

Great Ormond Street is a world-renowned tertiary referral specialist children’s hospital, in the heart of Central London. Children of all ages are seen presenting with a variety of conditions, which provides for a truly interesting and varied workload in all modalities.

UCLH is one of the largest and most successful Foundation Trusts in the UK with an International reputation and a tradition of innovation. The Trust provides first-class acute and specialist services to patients both locally and from throughout the UK and abroad. UCLH services are provided across five satellite sites on the UCLH campus.

The post holder will be required to perform a wide range of radiographic procedures to a high standard and provide professional support to colleagues, radiographic, radiological, nursing and all other staff groups. The post holder will supervise, support and assist students and newly qualified radiographers in service delivery and personal development

Clinical Responsibilities

• Assess a referral or request form, and justify it under radiographic regulations and locally agreed protocols.
• Prioritise patients to ensure optimum efficiency and service quality.
• Ensure that the protocol used for an examination is suitably matched to the clinical indications for the procedure.
• Liaise with referring clinicians to clarify or discuss requests for complex radiographic procedures.
• Act as a point of specialist advice for referrers, other clinical staff, patients and their relatives.
• Ensure that patients, relatives and staff are appropriately informed and reassured of any discussions relating to patient procedures.
• Assess the physical, mental and communication abilities and needs of individual patients and respond appropriately.
• Ensure that unexpected abnormalities seen are brought to the attention of the medical staff of the department, and the referring clinician, and that the patient is managed in an appropriate and supportive manner.
• Work unsupervised, seeking advice from colleagues and senior radiographic or medical staff when required.
• Undertake IV injections when appropriately trained.

For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.