Job summary
- Main area
- Radiology
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Other
- Job ref
- 153-SP04097
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Bournemouth Hospital
- Town
- Bournemouth
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse - Radiology
Band 5
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Radiology Nursing team and are seeking Registered Nurses or Operating Department Practitioners wishing to develop their career and skills within the imaging specialty of Radiology & Interventional Radiology. Full time, part time hours are available and also have you considered a secondment?
The varied nature of this specialty means there is always something new and interesting to learn. The post consists of a variety of roles including working as a scrub assistant for sterile interventional procedures, circulating duties for recording patients’ observations, IV drug administration and managing patient care from pre-procedure through to post-procedure recovery.
The post requires participation in the Interventional Radiology on-call service which is fully operational to cover out of hour’s emergencies both week day evenings/nights and weekends.
Working hours: Monday to Friday 7.5hrs/day (with a potential opportunity to move to a 9-day fortnight roster in the future)
We welcome applicants to have an informal visit of the department to discuss the role in more detail.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital with potential requirement to work at Poole Hospital on occasion.
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Experienced registered 1st Level Nurse with a minimum of one years working experience or evidence of the required transferable skills.
- Registered with the NMC.
Desirable criteria
- A Post Basic Qualification appropriate to this speciality
Experience
Essential criteria
- Either surgical/medical/theatre experience in the acute care setting. .
- Experience in pre and post procedural care of Day Care or Short Stay Surgery or Investigations.
Desirable criteria
- Experience with caring for patients who have undergone interventional radiological procedures.
Technical skills
Essential criteria
- Experience or awareness of aseptic scrub skills and techniques
- Working in a theatre style environment required for major Interventional Radiology procedures.
- IV drug administration or willing to undertake
- Basic Life Support with adjuncts and willing to advance to next level of Immediate Life Support, ILS.
- Computer skills
- Experienced in complying with working Policies and SOP’s, Infection Control and Risk Management Policies set by previously employing health care organisations
Desirable criteria
- Central venous devices access management
- Totally implanted venous access devices management.
- Willing to learn venepuncture and cannulation
- Blood Transfusion competencies.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An understanding of nursing care requirements for the provision of pre and post care for surgical and or radiological interventions and medical investigations
- Knowledge and understanding of the principles of aseptic technique and infection control.
- Knowledge of Data protection act and patient confidentiality
- Willing to develop one’s own knowledge base and clinical and organisational skills.
- To demonstrate the ability to reflect upon practice in order to gain insight into clinical practice, self-growth and development within a specialist area.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of caring for patienst with peripheral vascular , gastrointestinal and urological disease,
- Has attended study days or gained experience within specialities associated with or in working partnership with Interventional Radiology
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Adaptable to emergency situations and pressurised envirioment.
- Ability to cope with rapid through-put of patients and meeting individual patient needs.
- Participate in on call service.
- The wearing of lead aprons (PPE) during diagnostic, fluoroscopy and interventional procedures
- Motivated and adaptable to change
Desirable criteria
- Working in support services sector.
Personal attributes.
Essential criteria
- Flexible to service needs and expanding radiology services
Desirable criteria
- Experience in the provision of sessional services or time tabled care provision
Language requirement
Essential criteria
- Be able to speak English as necessary to undertake the role
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
- Rob Barwell
- Job title
- Charge Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 4118
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