Radiographer inSlough inSlough PUBLISHED 22 JUL 2024

Job Overview


Are you are a Radiographer interested in pursuing your career within a department that offers you a nurturing and flexible working environment for growing talent, please look no further.

We are seeking to appoint Band 5 qualified Radiographers or Radiography students nearing the end of their training to be part of our friendly and hard-working team. We offer a great plan whereby you can progress from a Band 5 to Band 6 after a year

We have training opportunities in Ultrasound with good opportunities to gain further training in advanced CT and MRI.

This is a rotational post between, Wexham Park(Slough), Heatherwood(Ascot), St Mark's(Maidenhead) and King Edward's (Windsor).


Previous Candidates need not apply.


Main duties of the job

You will gain excellent opportunities to develop your career within our modern, well equipped and continuously expanding radiology imaging service within the following areas: General, Theatres, Dental and CT.

We work on a rotational roster which includes weekends, night shifts and extended day shifts.

We also have busy MRI and Ultrasound units.

We have new DR/CR X- ray equipment as well as state of the art CT and MRI scanners across Wexham Park and Heatherwood sites.

We have an exceptional track record for supporting ongoing professional development.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.


Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities


To provide a high quality and efficient radiographic service in all areas of the Dept.

To maintain the high standards of the department by contributing to individual and team objective's


Please see attached JD and person specification for more details.


Person specification


Qualifications


Essential criteria

• HCPC Registration
• D.C.R. or B.Sc. Radiography or equivalent
• Evidence of C.P.D.
  
  

Experience


Essential criteria

• Previous general radiographic experience.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience working as an Assistant Practitioner
  
  

Skills


Essential criteria

• Must communicate effectively at all levels
• Good customer care attitude
• Able to clinically supervise junior staff and students
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .

Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .

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