Senior Clinical Radiology Department Assistant

We are recruiting for a Senior Clinical Radiology Department Assistant who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The post is based at Lister Hospital, but the post holder will be expected to rotate to the New QEII Hospital and cover occasional shifts at Hertford County Hospital as required. This role involves preparing clinical areas, supporting clinical staff during examinations and procedures and supporting patients both physically and emotionally. There are some administrative and reception tasks in this role. The post holder will require the knowledge and skills to supervise, support and train the Clinical Radiology Department Assistants within the department. The role will also include cannulation training to support the CT and MRI services., This role involves preparing clinical areas, supporting clinical staff during examinations and procedures and supporting patients both physically and emotionally. We will be looking to train the successful candidate to cannulate. You will be expected to undertake some administrative and reception tasks in this role. The post holder will require the knowledge and skills to supervise, support and train the Clinical Radiology Department Assistant's within the department.

This is an interesting and varied job working within a friendly hard-working team. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic and self-motivated and have previous experience of working as a Clinical Radiology Department Assistant.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.