Bank Radiographer
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Job overview
We are recruiting for a General Radiographer who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.
Main duties of the job
We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.
We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities of the post-holder require service delivery in a wide range of clinical environments, as well as to a diversity of patient presentations.
Radiographers will be required to work unsocial hours according to rota, but under supervision.
The service is run on a general service and on call basis and includes working in areas such as the Emergency Department, Theatre, inpatient areas, Neonatal Unit and Intensive Care Unit, CT scanning and interventional suites within Radiology. Patient presentation will include the unconscious, uncooperative, incapacitated, incompetent, disorientated and those with physical and mental disabilities. A wide variety of patients will be encountered and will include those exhibiting anti-social or threatening behaviour including both un-convicted and legally convicted e.g. prisoners.
Other influencing factors include the skills needed to provide patients or relatives with empathy and emotional support for the bereaved, terminally ill, injured, traumatised or those altered by substance use/abuse.