Job summary
- Main area
- Radiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Extended working day)
- Job ref
- 411-MED-24-6328194
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £33,706 - £40,588 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 6 Research CSI Radiographer
NHS AfC: Band 6
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Radiographer Cross Sectional Imaging - Research
Band 6 Full Time (37.5 hrs)
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a major teaching hospital with 270 beds. It is a supra-regional centre for cardiac surgery, neurosurgery and paediatric major trauma. Alder Hey is one of Europe’s busiest children’s hospitals and we care for over 270,000 young people and their families every year.
Are you keen for research and development? If so, this would be the ideal job for a forward thinking progressive cross-sectional radiographer with an interest in paediatrics to come and be a part of our dedicate and close-knit cross-sectional team in the hospital in the park.
Main duties of the job
Alder Hey is a key centre for children’s health research with the goal of giving all children and young people the opportunity to participate in, and benefit from, clinical research. The Clinical Research Division works with our clinicians, academia, and industry to invent, develop, and test new treatments for children and young people. We have a newly installed dedicated 3T GE Signa Premier MRI scanner.
The post holder will be required to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and deliver high-quality research and clinical imaging in the Cross-Sectional service for a variety of paediatric and adult presentations. The post holder must have a flexible approach to the working hours to accommodate the research demands. You are required to work in line with defined protocols and requirements with minimal supervision and with delicate attention to research participants.
You will work across both CT & MRI modalities at the Alder Hey site joining a team of highly skilled and enthusiastic paediatric radiographers.
You will be required to work closely with principal investigators and members of the research study teams to ensure that both clinical and commercial research trials are performed to agreed timescales and protocols.
Working for our organisation
We are the paediatric tertiary referral centre for children in Merseyside, as well as much of North West England and North Wales.
The radiology department provides all imaging modalities, including nuclear medicine, ultrasound, CT, MRI and intervention.
Our Cross Sectional Imaging department currently has two MRI scanners, a Philips Ingenia 1.5T and a 3T Ingenia intra-operative system A third MRI scanner, 3T GE Signa Premier is due for install in July 2024 and will form part of the Trusts innovation and research program as part of the 2030 vision. Our CT scanner is a Philips Ingenuity 128 Elite.
We perform a wide range of examinations including advanced neuro imaging (fMRI and intra-operative MRI), advanced cardiac MRI and CT.
We envisage our new MRI scanner to be at the forefront of research and development in both paediatric and adult research for example the “Laser Intra-operative therapy” trialled at Alder Hey in July 2023.
We are looking for an adaptable, friendly and enthusiastic candidate who would embrace the challenge of working with children. Previous experience in cross sectional imaging is desirable.
The candidate would be expected to work extended days.
For further information about this vacancy please contact Neil Fanning, Lead Radiographer in Cross Sectional Imaging on 0151 252 5017.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
ALDER HEY CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
JOB DESCRIPTION
Post: Radiographer Cross Sectional Imaging - Research
Band: 6
Hours: 37.5 Hours per week extended days as required.
Accountable to: Radiology Clinical Service Manager
Reports to: Lead Radiographer Cross Sectional Imaging (CSI)
Role Summary:
The post holder will be required to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and deliver a high-quality Cross-Sectional Imaging service for a variety of paediatric presentations. The post holder must have a flexible approach to the working hours to accommodate the demands of the department and of research trial participants.
Please see attached job description for further detail.
Person specification
Requirements
Essential criteria
- HCPC registration
- GCP Certificate
- Degree/Diploma in Diagnostic Imaging
- Significant experience as a Senior Radiographer
Desirable criteria
- CSI Experience
- MRI Research
- Paediatric experience
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
- Neil Fanning
- Job title
- CSI Lead Radiographer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 252 5017
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