Clinical Technologist

Job overview

Main duties of the job

The DEXA team at UHS are delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity for a customer focused, driven and enthusiastic individual, as part of our outstanding service.

This fixed term role (1 year), will allow the successful candidate to support this expanding service allowing us to continue to offer timely scans to our local and wider community and participate in exciting patient research studies. The candidate will be required to be patient facing, to provide a high-quality dual energy X-ray Absorptiometry scanning service (DXA), providing bone densitometry measurement service to in/outpatients, private patients and research volunteers.

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the ‘Job Description and Main Responsibilities’ section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

UHS offers fantastic training and development giving you the best possible opportunities to achieve the career you want. Development of our staff is central to the delivery of high quality, safe and effective care. We can offer opportunities to develop within a supportive environment, and our staff survey results reflect our commitment to facilitate your career progression.

As per the job pack, you can see that responsibilities include a range of technical, scientific, advisory, clinical and research skills. The main role will include providing a bone densitometry measurement service to patients referred to the DEXA service. Direct patient care is a large part of the role, supporting patients through their attendance and providing advice and guidance. DEXA also support a number of patient research studies alongside their diagnostic referrals.

We are looking for a flexible, enthusiastic, passionate individual to join our ever growing service. They will need to hold the relevant qualifications and/or experience for the role- as specified in the job pack. The individual will need to demonstrate working well both individually and as part of a team.

The service works Monday- Friday, largely core hours. Flexibility to shift pattern is desirable but can be discussed if successful. The department hold scans at UHS but movement between buildings may be required.