MRI Radiographer

Job Overview

The Pre-Assessment Nurse will work as an autonomous practitioner with a caseload of complex patients within a team structure. Delivering high-quality, effective, and compassionate care is essential to our organisation. Pre-Assessment is a pivotal part of the patient's pathway, ensuring patients are in their optimal health for procedures. The post holder will lead the service in Winchester, with band 7 support across all sites.

Main Duties

• To practise autonomously, carrying a caseload of patients, supporting the team in delivering a seven-day, twenty-four-hour service.
• High standards of professional practice to ensure quality and safety of patient care, experience, and the patient journey.
• Ensuring patients are fully informed about their procedure and able to explain what to expect during the post-operative recovery phase.
• Specialised clinical practice, knowledge, skills, and experience.

Working for Our Organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Cultural Ambition

We aim to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement, and excellence thrive.

Specialist Services

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential Criteria

• Current level one NMC registration with post-registration experience in pre-assessment.
• First-level degree or working towards one.

Desirable Criteria

• Holder of History taking and physical assessment course.

Experience

Essential Criteria

• Relevant clinical experience in pre-assessment.
• Demonstrates knowledge of policies, practices, and procedures, e.g. NHS national policies, standards, requirements, and directions that relate to patient care.

Desirable Criteria

• Previous experience in the area of Women's Health.

Skills

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrates an ability to prioritise own workload and responds appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
• Communication and relationships: able to present and receive complex information within a multi-professional team. Ability to convey sensitive information in an empathetic manner to patients, relatives/carers, and staff.
• Demonstrates leadership in the management of change.
• The post holder will be expected to be physically fit to manage light physical effort for short periods and moderate effort for several short periods during a shift.
• The post holder will be expected to manage occasional, highly distressing, or highly emotional situations in an empathetic manner.

Training

Essential Criteria

• Provides learning and development to other professionals within own work area and other clinical areas.