Clinical Specialist Radiographer - MRI

Role: Clinical Specialist Radiographer - MRI 
Site: London, The Wellington Hospital 
Hours: Full time Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week (including shifts from 8am-4pm, 8am-8pm & 12pm-8pm) 
Contract Type: Permanent 
Salary: Competitive dependent upon skills and experience. This position is equivalent to a band 7 in the NHS. 

Job Description 

 We’re looking for a Clinical Specialist MRI Radiographer to join our MRI team at The Wellington Hospital, currently rated “Good” by the CQC.  

They successful candidate will provide a customer focused high quality diagnostic Radiography service to our patients and service users across both inpatient and outpatient settings. You should have strong technical MRI knowledge. 

The Wellington Hospital is the UK's largest independent hospital with over 260 beds and 1000 employees. We have an international reputation for excellence in complex healthcare and have gained four decades of expertise in treating patients from the UK and overseas. All our sites have state-of-the-art MRI scanners, ensuring the highest clinical imaging quality.  We have 6 MRI scanners, three 1.5T and three 3T scanners.  

We have iMRI scanning unit with integration with a digital theatre, tied in with that we perform advanced neuro scans including functional, perfusion and spectroscopy.  As the gamma knife is based in one of our sites we do all of the gamma knife planning scans.   

Reward & recognition – We reward your commitment in delivering the highest standard of care with generous and competitive benefits such as our contribution pension scheme, private medical insurance, annual salary review, 25 days holiday each year; with the option to buy and sell. We invest in your career development with clear career pathways and access to further education. 

Duties & responsibilities:

•  Ensure the highest quality of care is provided at all times and to provide an effective service as part of the day-to-day operation of the MRI department  

• Carry out a full range of MRI scans to a high standard. Ensure high quality imaging is provided to our consultants and liaise with relevant radiologists in striving for image optimisation  

• Work closely with the Radiologists and Consultants in setting up policies and protocols for all imaging and patient pathways 

• Adhere to protocols 

• Ensure safety of patients, staff, relatives and visitors at all times 

• Participate in the out of hours on-call rota and extended days 

• Have good organisational and communication skills 

• Observe patient confidentiality and corporate data protection protocols 

• Always abide by the current Manual Handling, Infection Control and any other hospital and departmental policies 

• Any other duties as reasonably requested by the Superintendent or Radiology Manager. 

• Be able to deputize for area superintendent. 

• Occasional rotation across our out- patient facilities in Golders Green (NW11 9PY) and Elstree (WD6 3BS) may be required.  

• Liaise with service engineers and bookings team in response to any equipment faults as well as routine servicing, coordinating possible contingency arrangements as part of business continuity.