Radiology Staff Nurse | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
The radiology nursing team provide an extensive range of cover throughout the radiology department, in the Angio lab, CT, ultrasound and day case units within radiology at both HRI and CRH.
The nursing team assist the radiologist with interventional radiological , from diagnostic to therapeutic procedures. This ranges from assisting with a biopsy or drain in ultrasound or CT to being the scrubbing nurse during a vascular case.- Providing care for patients from admission to discharge in the radiology day case units.
- Assist the radiologist with CT and ultrasound, biopsies, drains and aspirations.
- Act as a scrub or circulating nurse in the angio lab during more complex inteventional radiology procedures.
- Carry out pre-assessments.
- To assess, plan, implement and assess patient care. Then escalate you concerns to relevant practitioner.
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide patient centred care.
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards.Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.- To work within the CHFT policies and procedures.
- Work with the NMC code.
- Assisting in the training of students and new staff.
- To provide compassionate care to patients and work within the trusts core values.
- Be the patients advocate and involve them and their relatives in any care provided.
- Be willing to take on any relevant training to required to do your job.
- Attend all mandatory training and ensure professional registration is maintained.
- Be flexible in working pattern in order to meet the needs of the service.
This advert closes on Sunday 29 Sep 2024