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Band 6 Specialist CT Radiographer

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Job Title: Specialist CT Radiographer

Grade: NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) Band 6

Directorate: Clinical Support Services / Imaging

Reports To: CT Lead / Principal Radiographer

Accountable To: Radiography Professional Lead / Head of Radiology

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (including full shift rotation: nights, weekends, and bank holidays)

Location: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

Job Purpose

To work as an autonomous, highly skilled practitioner within the specialist CT team, delivering a high-quality, safe, and efficient diagnostic service. The post-holder will perform a comprehensive range of complex and advanced CT procedures, ensuring maximum diagnostic accuracy while adhering strictly to radiation protection regulations. As a specialist in a major teaching hospital, the role involves managing complex clinical workloads (including trauma, stroke, and cardiac pathways), supervising junior staff, and contributing to the clinical training of student radiographers.

Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required

As a key member of the CT team, you will deliver high standards of care leading the site CT team, working to build a service that is progressive and responsive to service needs, while being safe and cost effective.

It is important that you are able to work autonomously and are able to work flexibly within a team using your clinical expertise to provide a quality CT service.

You will need to be an experienced radiographer with some CT experience who is dynamic, highly driven, motivated, and experienced to ensure the delivery of a comprehensive vision for the development of new services for patients.

This post is full time with an expectation to be able to work across site when required and must have previous NHS experience.

Across UHB, the CT Imaging team run a twenty four hour service with out of hours on site emergency access to Imaging. You will be expected to participate in the 7-day shift system including nights, weekends, bank holidays and on call.

The CT service performs a wide variety of examinations on a range of Siemens CT scanners, and you will be expected to perform patient cannulation as required.

You will be expected to influence all related aspects of care and management of patients. You must be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals, be enthusiastic and committed to making a difference, and possess a desire to improve practice through ongoing personal and professional development.

About Us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job Description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

HCPC registration

D.C.R. (R) or BSc Radiography S.R.R.

Documented experience in diagnostic imaging.

Evidence of CPD and reflective practice, link grade competencies

Desirable

Evidence of short specialist/leadership courses/education.

Experience

Essential

Relevant clinical experience in general radiography

Experience in the specialised CT imaging modality

Experience in general radiography

Desirable

Advanced knowledge and experience of CT scanning techniques

Additional Criteria

Essential

Participation in 24-hour emergency CT service including on call, overnight shifts, weekends and bank holidays

Participate in cross site working when required Understanding of relevant legislation and Radiation Regulations

Awareness of Radiographers Code of Conduct

Desirable

Knowledge and awareness of current NHS issues

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For Help With Your Application, Contact

Damian Jones

damian.jones@uhb.nhs.uk

01213714923

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£39959.00 to £48117.00 Yearly

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-Time, Flexible Working

Reference number

304-1104455

Job locations

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

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Job Description

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