Band 3 Clinical Imaging Assistant

Applications are invited from enthusiastic and self-motivated individuals to join our X-Ray Department as a Band 3 Clinical Imaging Assistant.

The post will support patients undergoing ultrasound and radiographic examinations, assist procedures when necessary, and ensure health and safety and infection control is adhered to.

Role Overview

As a Clinical Imaging Assistant, you will help to prepare and reassure patients prior to and during their procedures. You will need good communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills. You should be someone who is caring, reassuring, and calm in how you approach your work. You will also be responsible for ensuring the environment is safe, tidy, and meets a high standard of cleanliness.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support to the Imaging service, undertaking patient registration, workload management, and assisting in the clinical environment to provide optimum patient care.
• Provide support to consultant radiologists, radiographers, and sonographers with patient care and ensure being a chaperone in the clinical environment providing optimum patient care.
• Perform IV cannulation for patients undergoing contrast-enhanced imaging procedures (CT, MRI, NM) following Trust training and competency sign-off.
• Set up trolleys for imaging procedures both sterile and non-sterile, using guidelines given.
• Assist the Radiologists & Radiographers in specialist sessions taking responsibility for patient care throughout the examination by observing, assisting, and comforting when necessary.
• Deal with verbal and telephone requests.
• Assist effectively with patients in a variety of environments, i.e., multiple trauma cases, ultrasound, theatre, fluoroscopy suites, mammography, and to maintain a professional demeanour in potentially distressing circumstances.
• Maintain stock levels, when necessary, within the imaging department from the imaging stores.
• At times may need to undertake reception, clerical, and other support duties.