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Job Description
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- Suitable work/life experience
- Previous experience in a caring role
- An understanding of patient confidentiality
- Basic computer skills
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the Healthcare setting
- Basic computer skills
- Ability to communicate clearly in written & spoken word
- NVQ level 2 or equivalent in healthcare
- Suitable work/life experience
- Previous experience in a caring role
- An understanding of patient confidentiality
- Basic computer skills
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the Healthcare setting
- Basic computer skills
- Ability to communicate clearly in written & spoken word
- NVQ level 2 or equivalent in healthcare
Job summary
This busy, friendly, Ultrasound department has a vacancy for a Radiology Assistant. The post is rotational through York Centre, South Liverpool Treatment Centre and Broadgreen Hospital.This is an exciting post, requiring multi-disciplinary team working with Radiographers, Sonographers, Radiologists and our clerical teams. It will involve caring for a wide range of patients and providing assistance with radiology-based procedures and examinations.
The job role will include setting up and assisting in procedures and examinations, post-procedure aftercare, and aiding imaging staff as a chaperone.
The main working hours for this job are:
Monday - Friday 0830 - 1700.
Scope for further weekend, evening and bank holiday working is also expected.
Previous NHS health care experience is an advantage, together with NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in a health care based area is expected.
Main duties of the job
The job role will include setting up and assisting in procedures and examinations, post-procedure aftercare, and aiding imaging staff as a chaperone.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Date posted
15 November 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£22,383 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
287-DSS-507-23
Job locations
York Centre/South Liverpool Treatment Centre
Smithdown Road
Liverpool
L15 2HE
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Job responsibilities
1. To escort patients within the Department chaperoning wherenecessary and be responsible for patient comfort and well being.2. To assist in undressing and redressing of patients.3. To assist patients to use toilet facilities as appropriate.4. To assist patients on and off ultrasound table before and after procedures.5. To communicate effectively with patients by listening to their concernsreassuring them by giving information and where appropriate eliciting andcommunicating information to other members of the Directorate team as appropriate.6. To collect, collate and file patient documentations as required.7. To input and retrieve patient information using the computerised radiology patient information system and the hospital information support system.
Please see job description and personal specification for full details.
Job responsibilities
1. To escort patients within the Department chaperoning wherenecessary and be responsible for patient comfort and well being.2. To assist in undressing and redressing of patients.3. To assist patients to use toilet facilities as appropriate.4. To assist patients on and off ultrasound table before and after procedures.5. To communicate effectively with patients by listening to their concernsreassuring them by giving information and where appropriate eliciting andcommunicating information to other members of the Directorate team as appropriate.6. To collect, collate and file patient documentations as required.7. To input and retrieve patient information using the computerised radiology patient information system and the hospital information support system.
Please see job description and personal specification for full details.
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
York Centre/South Liverpool Treatment Centre
Smithdown Road
Liverpool
L15 2HE
Employer's website
https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
York Centre/South Liverpool Treatment Centre
Smithdown Road
Liverpool
L15 2HE
Employer's website
https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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