IR Radiology Care Assistant, Band 3

This is a front line position and you will often be the first health care worker that the patients see in our department so it is therefore essential that you are a good communicator and can greet each individual with respect and dignity.

As an overview of the predominant tasks include:

- Meet and greet patients upon arrival, making them feel safe and secure in our care across the two acute hospitals in our Trust.

- prepare patients for their examinations/procedures. This includes providing clear instruction,assisting with changing, cannulation and radiation protection screening.

- perform administrative and house keeping tasks to facilitate effective service delivery

- monitoring patients for the duration of their visit, including vital signs observations as required

-support the nursing team in providing quality patient care in two Interventional Day Case Units across sites.

- Transfer of patients to and from the department as well as in and out of examination rooms and onto specific imaging tables.

- contribute to a clean and safe department, complying with policies and reporting faults quickly

- working within a multidisciplinary team to provide essential services to almost every patient that visits the hospital

Additional working pattern details: Mon - Fri shift patterns 8.00-16.00

- To deliver direct patient care in line with Trust values caring, listening and excelling and how this relates to yourself and patients.

- Support the nursing team to delivery high quality care for patients in Day Case Units and the IR labs.

- Undertake patient observations and documentation in line with the NEWS (national early warning score) system. Respond to signs of a deteriorating patient and alert the appropriate team if a need for emergency intervention is required following the departmental protocol.

- Perform Cannulation and removal of cannula after appropriate training.

- Support the interventional procedures in all modalities through competency in sterile trolley preparation and decanting and assisting as required.