CT RadiographerNHS

Job summary

Band 6 - £39,959 - £48,117 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)

We are recruiting forCT 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".

This is a truly exciting time to join our team as we work in the newly developed Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) that delivers first-class diagnostic care to our community.

The new centre has created the ability to deliver joined up diagnostic care, and with increased capacity this ensures our patients have faster access to treatment, earlier diagnosis, and improved outcomes.

By becoming part of our team, you will have the opportunity to work in innovative ways and play a central role in how we improve patient pathways, delivering the right test, at the right time, in the right place.

We are looking for experienced CT Radiographers to come and work in our forward-thinking department. Our normal practice would be to develop staff internally however an exciting opportunity has arisen for external candidates to apply.

Main duties of the job

To conduct a wide range of CT scans upon a range of patient types, both as an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multi-professional team, in a manner that meets professional, departmental and legal standards and requirements.

Participate in the out of hours on call rota. Radiographers practice will involve lone working in particular specialties and at particular times.

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 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.

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.

Job description

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

About us

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust serves a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an on-site day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire the Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem of the south coast off England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The Island offers an amazing coast line with beautiful countryside, year round events, festivals and award winning attractions.

Our 2024-2029 'Working Together, Improving Together' strategy sets out our objectives for the next 5 years, setting the framework for our collaboration to deliver our vision of working together to deliver excellence in care for our patients and communities.