Interventional Radiology Nurse | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the expanding Interventional Radiology Nursing Team, supporting the newly created Radiology Day Case Unit.

You will join a team specialising in providing a dedicated pre and post procedure recovery area for our patients as part of the Targeted Lung Health Check programme.

Candidates should be highly motivated, forward thinking, enthusiastic with a passion for interventional radiology, with excellent communication skills and a commitment to providing a quality service for our patients.

You will be at the forefront of providing cutting edge treatment to patients including assisting in intra-arterial thrombectomy and vascular emergency interventional procedures.

The successful candidate would be expected to participate in the dedicated out of hours, on call service.

• Provide daily nursing advice and support to the radiology. department, assisting the radiologists and radiographers with a wide range of highly specialised procedures.
• Provide nursing care to patients during highly specialised procedures.
• To admit, recover and discharge patients to the radiology day case unit.
• To monitor patient clinical observations and administer IV medications where required.
• To scrub and assist the radiologist during highly specialised interventional procedures.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as a Registered Nurse in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC Pin within the next 2-3 months. Please note an NMC PRN Pin is not a full NMC Pin and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.

The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Nov 2024