Senior Radiographer - Interventional, Cardiac and CT

Senior Radiographer - Interventional, Cardiac and CT

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an autonomous practitioner who can work within a multidisciplinary team to ensure adherence to Ionising Radiation regulations and supervise students and new members of the team? Then this could be the role for you!

We are looking for a Senior Radiographer to join the team to work in our purpose-built Interventional and Cardiac suite at Colchester Hospital. There is also an opportunity to rotate into CT.

This post is fixed term until 31/03/2026. Internal applicants currently employed by ESNEFT will be offered on a secondment basis only.

Our combined Interventional Radiology & Cardiac Angiography (IRCA) unit provides a 24/7 service for interventional radiology. Colchester is a Vascular centre which accepts patients from across the region for urgent, life-saving procedures such as EVAR, FEVAR, embolization, thrombolysis and angioplasty. The dedicated Cardiac Catheterisation lab provides cardiology services such as diagnostic coronary angiography and pacemaker implants. The IRCA department carries out over 3000 procedures per annum.

We require a Radiographer to provide effective, high-quality individualised care to patients and relatives/carers and to contribute to the continuing development of radiology practice.

This post is 37.5 hours per week, which consists of 4 longer days with an off day during the week, which may be subject to change upon needs of the service.

Main duties of the job

• You will be required to lead and ensure high standards of patient care at all times, in line with Trust policies and guidelines. In addition, you will be an effective leader of the team and wider multi-professional healthcare team.
• You will provide high-quality images to our radiologists, cardiologists and vascular surgeons.
• Participate in the vascular on-call service (45-minute call-out time).
• Deputise for area lead radiographer taking responsibility for managing the area on a day-to-day basis in their absence.
• Act as point of contact for general imaging enquiries acting appropriately, sensitively and professionally to ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times, seeking more senior support if appropriate.
• Communicate decisions and outcomes from enquiries to the relevant senior staff member.
• Support undertaking regular review of systems and implement changes and audit of these to ensure maximum efficiency as required.
• Liaise with peers of all professional groups, radiologists, other medical officers, and technical staff in the delivery of high-quality patient care.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics, and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals, we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in the hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Current registration with the HCPC as a radiographer (or meets HCPC eligibility criteria for international candidates).

Experience

• Significant experience of working at a senior level within a radiology service
• Previous hospital experience
• Supervising junior members of staff
• Maintaining high standards
• Experience in Interventional Radiology (IR)
• Experience in Cardiac Cath Lab
• Experience in Computed Tomography (CT)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata