Job Description

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Job Summary

Job Profile Summary:

Cleveland Clinic London are looking for Mammographers to join our Bank Team within the Imaging Department at Cleveland Clinic London with a competitive pay rate. As a Bank Mammographer you will work as part of a team and under the overall guidance of the Radiology Manager to ensure the highest standard of service to patients, consultants and visitors.

Hours: 2 shifts per week between 7:15am - 8:15pm, Monday - Friday

Location: Across all sites based in Victoria, Moorgate and Marylebone

Rates: £35.27 per hour + 12.07% holiday entitlement

What makes us different?

Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.

Cleveland Clinic London won ‘Hospital of the Year’ at the 2023 LaingBuisson awards!

What will your duties include?

• Monitors, evaluates and reports status of the departmental operations.
• Provides direct patient care in specialty areas.
• Undertake relevant training and competency assessments, strictly adhering to agreed protocols and procedures.
• To supply medicines using Patient Group Directions, without compromising patient safety. This involves ascertaining the patient’s suitability for drugs and taking joint responsibility for the potential complications under the indirect supervision of radiologists.
• Undertake basic patient observations, recognise a deteriorating patient, and manage immediately and appropriately.
• Use good radiographic techniques and modify as clinically appropriate.
• Have the technical ability to manipulate a range of equipment, whilst maintaining patient comfort and adequately communicate with patients and colleagues to ensure the safe movement of patients into imaging position.
• Use appropriate touch techniques to locate external bony landmarks.
• Perform all X-ray examination as required and within the scope of Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (IR(ME)R).
• Utilise and understand the Picture Archiving and Communication system (PACS) and Computed Radiography (CR) and Digital Radiography (DR) systems.
• Other duties as assigned.

Mammography Roles and Responsibilities

• Assess the clinical justification of referrals and act as a point of advice for imaging referrers and for patient enquiries regarding their referral.
• Acquire diagnostic images and physically position the full range of patient presentations.
• Assist and participate in interventional breast procedures such as ultrasound, stereotactic and vacuum assisted biopsies.
• Operate advanced software on specialised mammography equipment.
• Review images and in liaison with Consultant Radiologists ensure that supplementary imaging procedures are considered.
• Work as part of a team to ensure effective communication and delivery of care.
• Adapt and quickly respond to changes in service, patients or departmental need.
• Trouble-shoot equipment faults and make suitable provision for the service in the event of equipment failure.

What we need from you?

Essential

• Minimally a BSc (Hons) Radiography, DCR(D) Diploma of the College of Radiographers or equivalent required.
• Current valid Healthcare Professional Council (HCPC) registration required.
• Relevant post Graduate experience with a post DCR in Mammography ascertain in the UK from a HCPC recognised institute required.
• Highly developed specialist Diagnostic Radiology and Mammography knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.
• Understanding of radiographic equipment in the context of how images are produced for both ionising and non-ionising radiation imaging methods and how images are appropriately shared and/or stored.
• Recent X-ray experience

Desirable

• Certificate in cannulation

Personal Protective Equipment:

Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required, e.g. for imaging Caregivers working with radiation or high magnetic fields.

What can we offer you?

As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest profits back into our organisation. This means we can offer tailored support and development for caregivers, alongside benefits such as:

• Tailored Bank Caregiver induction and orientation to each area
• Auto-Enrolment of 5% pension - Cleveland Clinic contributes 10% through Salary Exchange
• Priority shifts over agency workers
• Weekly pay
• Access to the LHQ Hub giving you discounts to local venues and restaurants.

Who we are?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.

With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.

If you would like to know more, please email bankrecruitment@ccf.org.

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Due to the volume of applications we are not always able to provide individual feedback.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”

As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.