Advanced Practitioner Reporting Radiographer (Band 7) - Radiography - Buckinghamshire Healthcar ...

Advanced Practitioner Reporting Radiographer Band 7

Main area: Radiography Grade Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Plus Out of Hours cover, weekends, evenings.)

Job ref: 434-SCS-A

Site: Stoke Mandeville Hospital

Town: Aylesbury

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 27/02/:59

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world-renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics.
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services.
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services.
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients' own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family-friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact or phone .

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work - and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and ambitious reporting radiographer to join us and become part of our engaging and forward-thinking Radiology Team.

There will be opportunities for you to develop your career. We offer a great working environment, investing in training and new equipment, and a highly skilled, patient-focused and friendly team. This is a rotational post; in addition to reporting, there will be rotation through General x-ray, A&E, CT, MRI and intervention, dependent on applicants' experience.

Stoke Mandeville is a world-renowned Spinal Injuries Rehabilitation Centre and Radiology is pivotal in providing imaging services for spinal injury patients.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an experienced radiographer to join our plain film reporting service. They must hold a postgraduate qualification in Reporting.

We are in the process of expanding and developing the reporting radiographer role within the Trust to include trauma, non-trauma and chest reporting.

Applications from radiographers who are already working towards a postgraduate qualification may be considered.

This post will be based at Stoke Mandeville but the successful applicant may work cross-site as required.

The successful candidate will be expected to partake in the out-of-hours service.

Radiology at SMH provides Plain Film including ED and Theatre, MRI, CT, Ultrasound, and Interventional Radiography. A plain film service is also provided at 2 community sites, Amersham and Buckingham.

The successful applicant will be expected to be an exemplar for the plain film reporting service, taking part in training, audit and continued quality improvement.

The Department prides itself on an active audit/teaching and quality improvement programme. The department also provides clinical placements for undergraduate students and an Apprenticeship Programme.

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

Person specification Education, Qualification & Training

• Degree or equivalent in Radiography
• HCPC Registration
• Evidence of CPD and attendance at relevant short courses
• Post Graduate Certificate or evidence of working towards PGC

Special Circumstances

• Travel to other sites if required
• Participation in out-of-hours rota

Experience

• 5 years' experience in radiography including out of hours work
• Supervision and training of junior colleagues
• Experience of Quality Assurance or up-to-date knowledge of Health & Safety and Risk Assessment issues.
• Assisted in protocol development
• Plus 1 year MRI experience and CT scanning.
• Experience of day-to-day running of a service.

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

• Venepuncture and cannulation
• Clear concise oral and written communication skills in order to deal with a range of staff/patients and provide written reports.
• Ability to develop protocols for clinical imaging
• Knowledge of Health & Safety issues
• Ability to deal with difficult situations, complaints, aggressive behaviour
• Ability to work under own initiative and as part of a team
• Organisational skills
• Appraisal and objective setting
• RPS

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

If you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the closing date.

Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.