Reporting Radiographer XR

Job overview

Job Overview

Job Title:  Reporting Radiographer XR

Hours per week: 37.5  Hours p/w

Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent

Salary: Band 7  £46,148 - 52,089 per annum

Closing Date: 20th October 2024

Interview Date: 30th October 2024

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.

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Main duties of the job

• To provide the Trust with a high-level reporting service for a specified range of XR images.
• Clinical input into the service, including producing independent free text reports of a specified range of XR images; recommending next step in patient pathway where appropriate.
• Post holder is directly responsible to the imaging service manager but is autonomous and responsible for providing written and verified radiological reports in own name and to be accountable for these reports.
• Post holder is responsible for working within own competency and referring any images outside this to a consultant radiologist
• Be part of a team working on quality improvement ensuring consistent high quality XR images from all radiography staff and students.
• First line managerial responsibilities for all aspects of the general service including staff recruitment, appraisals, sickness management, assisting in the monitoring of performance management with regards technique and quality and obtaining & maintaining processes for service user feedback.
• To provide an XR service to the Trust, by providing high quality images and participate in out of hour’s rota.

• To develop and improve professional expertise via continuous professional development (CPD).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Autonomous practitioner within a multidiscipline team responsible for writing and verifying a radiological report of a range of specified XRs in a final, free text version using a voice recognition system.
• Responsible for making clinical decisions which may have direct impact on patient management and treatment contributing to an effective care pathway for the patients.
• Recommending next step in patient care and requesting next step in imaging for trauma patients.
• Follow protocols for communication of unexpected clinical findings which may involve additional imaging.

Provide training and assessment of under graduate radiography students, APs and radiographers as required.

• Produce images of sufficient quality for the diagnostic and treatment process in accordance with professional, technical and legal standards and act as point of reference for technique advice for radiographers.
• Contribute to continual improvement of image quality within the department.
• Functioning in accordance with best practice and in a manner that meets professional, departmental and legal standards and requirements.
• Provide specialist knowledge, verbal or written opinions/advice to medical staff and others as required.