Diagnostic Radiographer

Job overview

The Royal Marsden is the UK’s leading comprehensive cancer centre and is recognised worldwide for the quality of its services, research and development of new treatments. The diagnostic service exists to provide support to the clinicians in charge of the medical care and treatment of patients within the Trust. It aims to do this speedily and where necessary to provide interpretation and advice on results.

The diagnostic Imaging department forms part of the clinical services division and supports the teaching functions of the Trust and its commitments to the research and development of new treatment modalities.

The Imaging department also works within a high-quality management system and has maintained alignment with Quality Standard for Imaging (QSI) since February 2018.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to be flexible in their approach as the department will operate between 8am to 8 pm Monday to Friday and Saturday 8- 5.15 pm

The post holder will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team in the provision of an efficient and effective Diagnostic Imaging Service. They will liaise with the clinicians in charge of a patient, with ward and other departmental staff within the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will be required to rotate between X-ray, CT and (where appropriate) mammography. While working within an oncological environment the post holder will be required to interact directly with terminally ill patients as well as being exposed at times to distressing and emotional situations. Patient presentation will include the unconscious, uncooperative, incapacitated, incompetent, distressed, disorientated, and those with physical and mental disabilities. The post holder will have responsibility for the timely, efficient and courteous provision of imaging services within the available resources.

The post holder will be expected to be flexible in their approach to the department and service , as well as participation in the on-call provision as appropriate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification

• To provide a high quality diagnostic imaging service
• To comply with accurate patient identification procedures
• To perform imaging examinations within Royal College of Radiologists(RCR) and Ionising Radiation(Medical Exposure) Regulations(IR(ME)R) guidelines while adhering to local radiation protection guidelines
• To give advice to patients and clinicians regarding the preparation required for specialised imaging examinations and to gain verbal/written consent from patients undergoing imaging examinations/intravenous contrast administration
• To administer intravenous contrast via a pressure injector.
• To give advice on aftercare following interventional procedures and bruising/ extravasations post intravenous contrast injection
• To accurately record/retrieve data on patients allergy status with particular reference to intravenous contrast
• To operate image data archives and to, record, store, retrieve and transmit image data with particular reference to digital data generated by digital mammography, and cross-sectional imaging.
• To accurately calculate scan delay times and pump injector volume/speed for cross-sectional imaging.
• To be familiar with the use of computer keyboards and VDUs which are used in all imaging modalities within the department.
• To ensure validity of general x-ray imaging requests.
• To accurately position and manoeuvre patients.
• To be familiar with the appropriate use of manual handling aids, hoists, slide sheets and pat slides to comply with the Trust’s Manual Handling Policy
• To be able to work unsupervised within clinical/ legal guidelines.

Applicant requirements

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.