Job Description:
ob Title: Senior Radiographer – Angiography
Department: Angiography
Location: Cromwell Hospital, 164-178 Cromwell Road, Kensington SW5 0TU
Permanent/fixed term contract: Permanent
Salary range: £Competitive
Full time/part time: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week,
Shifts: Monday – Friday (with possibility of 4-day week), plus on-call.
At Bupa, you can be the Radiographer you want to be. With the autonomy to use your skills and strong benefits to support you, patient care can be your top priority. Building a career in radiography has never been easier, with good hours, you can live a balanced, healthy lifestyle.
Joining Bupa, you'll benefit from access to our state-of-the art, a centre for connected learning, care and careers. This forms part of, a vibrant new learning initiative which brings us together in virtual and physical spaces across the Bupa globe.
As an Angiography Radiographer at Bupa our patients will be your top priority. With no shareholders, we reinvest our profits back into our business to give you the extra time and technology you need to make a difference to our patients each and everyday.
About The Cromwell Hospital
The Cromwell Hospital is a major international private hospital in West London receive both UK and international patients. We are committed to providing the highest quality healthcare outpatient and inpatient service care. The hospital has 180 beds and 4 suites, theatres, medical and surgical wards, cardiac centre, CDU, level 2 and 3 full intensive care facilities, paediatrics, diagnostic services, physiotherapy, a dedicated day surgery unit, heart centre, and a new cath lab.
We make health happen
The Cromwell Hospital is working towards providing Angio services from 8am and 8pm, which might go beyond this time when needed due to the demand and the complexity of procedures. Therefore, there will be a requirement to work through flexible work shifts. There is also requirement for participation in an out- of-hours on-call Cath Lab service and may require weekend working.
We perform a wide range of procedures to include; Ablations, Coronary angiograms and angioplasties, Cardiac Devices insertion/removal, PFO closure, TAVI, EVAR, Prostate embolization, Fibroid embolization, Varicocele embolization, Lower limb angiogram/angioplasties, PTC, Cerebral angiogram and Cerebral aneurism embolization
How you’ll help us make health happen:
1. You will support and deliver high standard diagnostic imaging in cath lab
2. Perform all types of IR, cardiac and neuro procedures as required.
3. Ensure that a high-quality service is provided by monitoring standards for patient care, technical performance, and reporting.
4. Be fully conversant with the Radiology Management System, PACS, and the computerised method of patient and examination documentation.
5. Participate in a departmental On-Call rota – if possible and to work flexible hours if required to accommodate changing workload patterns.
6. Co-operating with the need for occasional and necessary ‘overtime working’ to ensure that any procedure in progress can be completed safely, such as extra working time normally being compensated by time off in lieu or overtime payment.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
7. BsC or DCR in Radiography (essential)
8. Registration with HCPC (essential)
9. Able to evidence CPD (essential)
10. Post graduate experience in Angiography (essential)
11. PACS trained (essential)
12. Angiography specific radiography qualification/certificate (desirable)
Benefits:
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
13. Payment of Professional Registration fees
14. Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
15. Access to Bupa Campus and our Clinical Training Facility to support your clinical career development
16. Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
17. An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
18. Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
19. Discounted access to online gym sessions through Gympass
20. Various other benefits and online discounts
21. Free onsite massages as a recognition for your hard work
22. Opportunity to participate in our annual awards ceremony
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.