Communication and working relationships

• Demonstrates high level of team working and flexibility within a diverse multi-disciplinary team
• Communicate effectively with all levels of Trust staff, carers, and relatives to provide best patient care
• Recognise that radiographers are part of the wider healthcare team supporting all patient pathways, acute patient flow and day-to-day hospital management
• Communicate effectively with external support staff/engineers as required
• Always represent the Trust and Department in a professional manner

Analytical and judgement

• Interventional procedures can be high pressure and stressful, the post holder must be able to deliver a high level of care and decision making.
• Assess each individual patient and adapts technical aspects of an examination to provide the highest quality diagnostic imaging with lowest possible dose.
• Assess and maintain imaging quality, performing all necessary processing functions to achieve good quality images.
• As an Operator, assess request details against departmental protocols and provide the appropriate examination.
• Assess the requirements of each individual patient and adapt any part of the visit or examination to give the patient the best experience possible.
• Participate in any preliminary clinical evaluation process (also known previously as ‘red dot’) or extension of that, whilst recognising any limitations in their knowledge or experience.

Planning and organisation

• As a member of the interventional team, you will work autonomously from the service lead and will be required to provide the imaging once the training period is complete.
• Contribute to the efficient and effective delivery of the workload.
• Supports junior and senior staff in day-to-day provision of service.
• Independently manage workload appropriately when working in other departments or out of hours, seeking advice when necessary.
• When working outside of working hours, prioritise workload appropriately, considering requirements of all patients and referrers.
• Pro-actively seeks fill time between patients in the most effective way for the service and in whichever part of the service requires support

Physical skills

• Possess a high degree of dexterity and coordination for the safe operation of the imaging equipment.
• A large proportion of your working hours will be wearing lead PPE.
• Moving and transferring of patients in all departments.

Patient and client care

• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of physiological, social, and psychological needs of all patients and their careers, responding appropriately to the care needs of all patients.
• Communicate appropriately and effectively, utilising verbal, non-verbal and written means as required.
• Proactively work with service users and the public to develop and enhance the services they deliver.
• Contribute towards any urgent or emergency care that is required (e.g. resuscitation) where they have been trained to do so.
• Work autonomously within a given scope of practice and the scope of IR(ME)R (Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations) entitlement.
• Deliver high-quality medical imaging with ability to apply knowledge and practical experience to undertake a wide range of diagnostic techniques and examinations, modifying technique as required.
• Demonstrate optimisation of the delivery of radiation exposures in line with the principles of ‘as low as reasonably practicable’ (ALARP).
• Give advice to other healthcare workers and professionals on general radiation protection issues and be able to explain the general risks of radiation to patients.
• Adhere to IRR 2017 and ensure radiation protection of all employees.
• Work in line with current professional body guidance and document reasons for decisions when practice deviates from this.
• Use knowledge of anatomy and pathology to recognise the need for urgent interventions for optimal patient care and take appropriate actions.

Policy and service development

• Shares knowledge & experience with other practitioners, student radiographers and other professionals.
• Will support service development to provide the most efficient service whilst maintaining highest levels of quality and care.
• Will support creation and maintenance of any documentation as appropriate and when required.
• Will highlight potential service improvements or efficiencies via the appropriate route.
• Be proactive in raising concerns about patient care and service improvement suggestions, following these up as a duty of care.
• Take responsibility to feedback gaps, omissions or errors in any radiology documentation or procedures, including opportunity for improvement.
• Follows departmental policies, contributes to discussions on service/policy development, provides comments.

Finance, equipment and other resources

• Responsible for safe use of all equipment used within the remit of the role.
• Must highlight own training deficiencies in relation to any equipment.
• Shared responsibility to monitor equipment during day-to-day activity and to report any issues at the earliest stage.
• Shared responsibility for appropriate care of equipment, including day-to-day housekeeping.
• There are no financial responsibilities.

People management and training

• Supervise trainees/students proactively offering training and guidance related to tasks and roles that are within the post holder’s scope of practice.
• Mentor new starters during preceptorship.
• Recognise that when supervising trainees/students, responsibility for patient activity remains with the post holder.
• Contribute to feedback to trainees/students.
• Proactively support work experience and other similar programmes.

Information technology and administrative duties

• Be familiar with all IT systems that support the radiology/cardiology service and workflows.
• Data quality will be maintained by compliance with all data entry requirements in the IT systems relevant to the role.
• Comply with the Trusts Information governance policies.
• Responsibility to report data entry errors that have been saved against a patient record.

Research and development

• The post holder will support any research and development activity as required.
• Actively contribute towards and support a research centric culture through engagement and support of research activities.
• Participate in quality management, including quality control, quality assurance, audit, clinical governance, and the use of appropriate outcome measures within scope of practice.

Freedom to act

• Entitled as an IR(ME)R (Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations) Operator with statutory responsibilities inherent in role.
• Undertake work as a diagnostic radiographer within scope of practice, in line with HCPC and SoR codes of conduct, and local guidelines and policies.  Regular feedback given by a range of supervisors.
• Share knowledge & experience with other practitioners, assistant practitioners, student radiographers and other trainees.
• Entitled as a non-medical referrer for requesting post-pacemaker Chest X-rays to aid the patient pathway. Training provided.