Job summary
- Main area
- Interventional Radiology
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (+oncall commitment)
- Job ref
- 210-2025-472
- Employer
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Countess of Chester Hospital
- Town
- Chester
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Interventional Radiology Theatre Practitioner : RGN/ODP
Band 6
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, staff pride themselves on not only leading through clinical excellence, but also by creating an environment where all staff are valued and appreciated. To achieve this, the Trust has embarked on an exciting new strategy focused on continuous improvement.
Our vision is to improve the lives of our community and provide excellence in healthcare, through partnership and innovation
Our High Performance Culture will support everyone to be the best version of themselves by being true to our Trust vision, values and behaviours.
We welcome applications from colleagues from our local and neighbouring communities of all backgrounds and identities, who are currently under-represented within our region such as Black, Asian, Minority ethnic and those with disabilities.
As a region we are reviewing the way we work, and exploring how new working practices that support flexible working can create a positive work-life balance. As part of our recruitment process we will explore how our inclusive employment policies, flexible working, staff engagement forums, Trust facilities and services can be of mutual benefit.
Job overview
Working Full time: 37.5 hours per week
The Interventional Department at the Countess of Chester are looking for an experienced nurse or odp to lead the IR nursing team, working along side the IR manager, Radiographers, Consultants and support staff.
Chester is the hub for the SMART centre (south mersey arterial treatment centre) and all complex vascular work is performed at Chester from the local area and from both the spoke sites at Arrowe Park and Warrington. We provide an on-call service to patients at Chester and the successful applicant is expected to fully participate in this service out of hours.
IR in Chester perform both vascular and non-vascular procedures ranging from arterial and venous intervention, embolisations, GI stenting, abscess drains, nephrostomies and image guided biopsies.
We have a Radiographer lead PICC team and also have an advanced radiographer practitioner who provides a nephrostomy exchange service, NG/NJ insertions, image guided lumbar punctures. The IR department has recently undergone full refurbishment and extension to include a new theatre with Canon imaging equipment and the space for a second theatre to be installed in the near future.
Main duties of the job
- You will be accountable as a clinical member to ensure you perform your role in a safe, competent manner within your designated area and provide specialist care to meet the needs of the pre/peri/post-operative patient.
- You will be responsible for maintaining effective communication throughout the areas of theatre services and between the medical, nursing, administrative and management staff to provide the best care to patients.
- You will be responsible for ensuring that patients and relatives are involved within their care to ensure that all their needs are met
Working for our organisation
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
- The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
- Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
- Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 5916 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 411,000. This includes 361,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs will be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN or ODP level 3 Qualification/ degree
- Mentorship qualification and experience.
- Mentorship experience and qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- A broad experience of Orthopaedic procedures – Elective and Trauma.
- Possess a broad awareness of professional issues
- Evidence of recent professional development/further study.
Desirable criteria
- Significant post registration experience in a rotational capacity or in other speciality areas
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Collette Markey
- Job title
- Superintendent Radiographer IR
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01244 366722
- Additional information
Naomi Leadbetter
Deputy superintendent Radiographer Interventional Radiology
01244 366722
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