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Job Summary
Salary: £61,000 plus, depending on experience
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: 33 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7HY
Contract: Full time, permanent
What are we looking for?
Cleveland Clinic London are looking to recruit a Senior Radiographer Modality Lead MRI to join our Imaging Team, with a competitive salary range.
What makes us different?
Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.
What will your duties include?
Professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of own practice, working within national legislation, departmental and hospital wide policy, Code of Conduct and professional guidelines ensuring delivery of imaging services emulates "best practices".
Develops Caregivers with effective coaching, counselling and mentoring.
Assist Radiology Leads to ensure Caregivers are trained on new equipment.
Maintains a work environment that fosters quality care delivery, accountability and employee satisfaction.
Assist implementation of new patient care services to keep the Institute market competitive and produce positive clinical outcomes; keeps abreast of current practice trends.
Provides direct patient care in specialty areas. Flexible approach to working hours, prepared to participate fully in shifts, extended working days and on–call working rotation and schedules as may be required.
Undertake relevant training and competency assessments, strictly adhering to agreed protocols and procedures. To supply medicines using Patient Group Directions, without compromising patient safety. This involves ascertaining the patient’s suitability for drugs and taking joint responsibility for the potential complications under the indirect supervision of radiologists. To be aware of the clinical hazards and emergencies that such drugs can induce.
Responsible for ensuring that all persons are safe to enter the controlled area, that all unauthorised persons are supervised at all times, and that all MRI policies, procedures and risk assessments are adhered to at all times.
As a category (a) Authorised person take full responsibility for the presence of unauthorised persons for the duration of their presence in the controlled area, supervise all non-category (a) persons entering the controlled area, and control the equipment entering the Inner Controlled Area on a day-to-day basis.
Vigilantly reduce the serious and potentially fatal risk from projectiles by checking and supervising all objects entering the Controlled Area and by checking all non-authorised persons garments before allowing entry to the Controlled Area.
Minimise the risk of potential burns from the radio-frequency field by the application of appropriate techniques, advising and monitoring ‘high risk’ patients, providing specialist advice to clinicians and reporting all adverse incident using the Hospital Adverse Incident Reporting System.
Responsible for effectively and diligently screening and supervising all patients prior to scanning by verifying the Patient Screening Questionnaire responses, authorising certain implants as safe / not safe to scan as per written protocols, reviewing case notes to research surgical implants, and research MRI compatibility of various implants with the MR safety database / manufacturer’s instructions.
Advise radiologists on the technical capabilities of the scanners and suggest appropriate protocols and sequences to best demonstrate common pathologies.
To have a robust knowledge of all potential MRI emergencies and how to manage each emergency whilst ensuring MRI safety is not compromised, utilising safe moving and handling techniques and ensuring only MRI compatible equipment is taken into the Controlled Area.
What we need from you?
Minimally a BSc(Hons) Radiography, DCR(D) Diploma of the College of Radiographers or equivalent required.
Current valid Healthcare Professional Council (HCPC) registration required.
Trained to cannulate and administer contrast agents required.
Highly developed specialist Diagnostic Radiology knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.
Relevant personal history of continuing professional development.
Understanding of radiographic equipment in the context of how images are produced for both ionising and non-ionising radiation imaging methods and how images are appropriately shared and/or stored.
Knowledge of the application of different Imaging procedures and the associated risks/benefits and precautions/safety requirements.
Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgement and the ability to work autonomously.
Requires high degree of dexterity to produce materials on a computer
Manage time and resources and prioritise workload according to clinical needs.
Build and sustain professional relationships and work independently, as part of the imaging team, as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Knowledge of the process for escalation of unexpected findings identified on images to ensure optimum patient care.
Ability to speak and write in English at the equivalent to level of 7 of the International English Language Testing System or the Occupational English Test (OET) at level B.
Requires physical manipulation of objects, fine tools/materials and people; narrow margins for error; accuracy and high degree of precision.
Requires frequent sitting, standing and walking.
What can we offer you?
As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest profits back into our organisation. This means we can offer tailored support and development for caregivers, alongside benefits such as:
25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
Auto-Enrolment of 5% pension - Cleveland Clinic contributes 10% through Salary Exchange
Life Assurance, Private Medical & Dental Insurance and Eye Care contributions
Discounted gym facilities
24/7 Holistic Employee Assistance Programme
Who we are?
Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.
With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.
If you would like to know more, please email recruitment@ccf.org.
Applicant shortlisting and interviews may take place whilst the advert is live, so it may close sooner than expected - please submit your application as soon as possible. Due to the volume of applications, we are not always able to provide individual feedback.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check
This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”
As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.
CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.
