Radiographer - Cath Lab

Job Description:

Job Title: Radiographer - Cath Lab
Department: Cath Lab
Location:  164-178 Cromwell Hospital, Cromwell Road, London SW5 0TU
Permanent / Contract:  PERMENANT  
Salary range:  £competitive ( dependent on experience)
Full time/part time:  Full Time / 37.5 hours per week

At Bupa, you can be the clinician you want to be. With the autonomy to use your skills and strong benefits to support you, patient care can be your top priority.  Building a career in radiography has never been easier, with good hours, you can live a balanced, healthy lifestyle.

Joining Bupa, you'll benefit from access to our state-of-the art Clinical Training Facility, a centre for connected learning, care and careers. This forms part of Bupa Campus, a vibrant new learning initiative which brings us together in virtual and physical spaces across the Bupa globe.

About The Cromwell Hospital

The Cromwell Hospital is a major international private hospital in West London providing care to both UK and international patients.  We are committed to providing the highest quality healthcare outpatient and inpatient service care. The hospital has 180 beds and 4 suites, theatres, medical and surgical wards, cardiac centre, CDU, Urgent Care centre, level 2 and 3 full intensive care facilities, paediatrics, diagnostic services, physiotherapy, a dedicated day surgery unit, and a new cath lab.

We pride ourselves in having exceptional high professional high standards to ensure the best journey for our patients, therefore full-training and support will be provided to the right individual. You’ll be supporting and delivering high standard diagnostic imaging, and ideally you will have some recent proven experience working in a Cath Lab, and demonstrate a keen interest in a career in this clinical field.
 

About The Unit

Some of the procedures performed in our services include: Ablations, Coronary angiograms and angioplasties, Cardiac Devices insertion/removal, PFO closure, TAVI, EVAR, Prostate embolization, Fibroid embolization, Varicocele embolization, Lower limb angiogram/angioplasties, PTC, Cerebral angiogram and Cerebral aneurism embolization.

You’ll help us make health happen by:
As the Cath Lab Radiographer you’ll maintain a high standard of imaging and patient care in accordance with the departmental and hospital quality standards.  Duties include and not limited to:

• Maintain a high standard of imaging and patient care in accordance with the departmental and hospital quality standards.

• Perform all types of IR, cardiac and neuro procedures as required by referring Physicians according to departmental policies and procedures. angiogram and Cerebral aneurism embolization.

• Demonstrate significant evidence of cardiac expertise and angiographic knowledge to meet with the expectations of the interventional consultants.

• Ensure that a high-quality service is provided by monitoring standards for patient care, technical performance, and reporting.

• Accurately analyse the acquired data, record results and produce high quality images for reporting.

• Participate in a Quality Assurance programme for equipment, processing and Radiation Protection, maintaining accurate records and reporting problems to the Radiation Protection Supervisor.

• Be prepared to train and work in both single plane and biplane Angiographic Studies.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
•    Angiography specific radiology qualification/certificate (desirable)
•    Relevant post-grad experience in an Angiography Lab (essential)
•    PAC’s Trained (essential)

Qualifications

•    BSc or DCR in Radiography (essential)
•    Registration with HCPC (essential)

Why work for us?

We want people to ‘love working here’, so much so that’s it’s at the top of our agenda and something you’ll hear a lot about here at Bupa.  We offer our people a great range of benefits, many of which are flexible and can be tailored to suit what’s most important to you.  We’re a healthcare company so there’s a huge focus on our people’s health and wellbeing, supported by a healthy work-life balance and workplaces which are friendly, appealing spaces to support you to be at your best.

We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers. 

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits. Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• Payment of Professional Registration fees

• Access to Bupa Campus and our Clinical Training Facility to support your clinical career development

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work

• Discounted access to online gym sessions through Gympass

• Various other benefits and online discounts

• Free onsite massages as a recognition for your hard work

• Opportunity to participate in our annual awards ceremony

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: [email protected]

At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe.  All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately,

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