Applications are invited from enthusiastic and self‑motivated individuals to join our X‑Ray Department as a Band 3 Clinical Imaging Assistant. The post will support patients undergoing ultrasound and radiographic examinations, assist procedures when necessary, and ensure health and safety and infection control is adhered to.
As a Clinical Imaging Assistant, you will help to prepare and reassure patients prior to and during their procedures. You will need good communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills. You should be someone who is caring, reassuring, and calm in how you approach your work. You will also be responsible for ensuring the environment is safe, tidy, and meets a high standard of cleanliness.
The contracted hours are full‑time, 37.5 hours per week across seven days. You will be on a shift rota at our Hillingdon and Mount Veroun Hospital sites.
Note: this vacancy may close earlier than advertised, once a suitable number of applications have been received.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide support to the Imaging service, undertaking patient registration, workload management and assisting in the clinical environment to provide optimum patient care.
* Support consultant radiologists, radiographers, and sonographers with patient care and act as a chaperone in the clinical environment, providing optimum patient care.
* Perform IV cannulation for patients undergoing contrast‑enhanced imaging procedures (CT, MRI, NM) following Trust training and competency sign‑off.
* Set up trolleys for imaging procedures both sterile and non‑sterile, using guidelines given.
* Assist the radiologists and radiographers in specialist sessions, taking responsibility for patient care throughout the examination by observing, assisting, and comforting when necessary.
* Deal with verbal and telephone requests.
* Assist effectively with patients in a variety of environments, i.e., multiple trauma cases, ultrasound, theatre, fluoroscopy suites, mammography, and maintain a professional demeanour in potentially distressing circumstances.
* Maintain stock levels within the imaging department from the imaging stores.
* At times may need to undertake reception, clerical and other support duties.
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