Vacancy: Senior 1 Radiographer MRI And Xray
Department: Radiology
Location: East London, E14
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time / 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £Competitive
Vacancies: 2

This is an exciting opportunity for a Radiographer to join our diagnostic clinical services in a purpose-built Specialist Diagnostics & Dental Centre. Featuring state-of-the-art facilities including MRI, CT, X-ray, and mammography, the centre will deliver a wide range of outpatient and diagnostic services across multiple specialities.

As a Clinician at Bupa our patients will be your top priority. With no shareholders, we reinvest our profits back into our business to give you the extra time and technology you need to make a difference to our patients each and every day.

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.

You'll be a HCPC registered Senior Radiographer with significant post qualification experience in MRI and Xray. You'll form part of a team of senior radiographers and be responsible for delivering a high quality, safe service, and provide at all times world-class customer service.

About the Centre
The Centre's secondary care services including muscle, bone and joint, orthopaedics, pain and spinal, dental and maxillofacial, breast and gynaecology, dermatology, cardiac, musculoskeletal, spinal, and urology, ENT, and will be able to perform simple procedures onsite.

The diagnostic centre houses the latest state-of-the-art technology;

• 3T Siemens scanner
• Somatom Force CT scanner
• X-ray
• Ultrasound
• A serene women health unit providing one stop breast care services
• Gynae unit.

The centre provides rapid-access to numerous specialities, and is operational Monday to Friday 8:00am to 20:00pm, and Saturday 8:00am to 14:00pm .

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Responsible for the daily management of the MRI And Xray Service in liaison with the Superintendent Radiographer and organising the daily work schedule to ensure that the department runs efficiently.
• Deputise for the Superintendent Radiographers as appropriate.
• Develop and maintain staff rotas to ensure appropriate staff coverage on the respective scanner.
• Supervise the professional standards and operational management of the rotating staff and their training in the respective scanner, ensuring a consistent level of service is maintained.
• Perform high quality examinations as required by referring Physicians, in line with departmental policies and procedures whilst ensuring that all patients being investigated receive a high standard of care.
• Accurately analyse the acquired data, record results and produce high quality images for reporting.
• Assist in the care of all equipment within the department ensuring that cleanliness is maintained and that all equipment faults are reported immediately.
• Ensure the efficient use of all resources, establish stock control systems and liaise with manufacturers and suppliers.

What you’ll bring:

• BSc or DCR in Radiography with HCPC registration (essential)
• Substantial MRI and Xray experience (essential)
• It would be desirable to be Philips MRI trained in neuro, body, cardiac and ortho MRI.
• Demonstrable experience in Contract MRI (essential)
• Use of RIS & PAC's ( essential)
• Ability to work under pressure and direct and achieve results.

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
• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Access to Bupa Campus and our Clinical Training Facility to support your clinical career development
• 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: careers@bupa.com

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.