Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available for a band 3 Full time (37.5 hours) Radiology Assistant Coordinator within the Imaging department.  This post is fixed hours and days ( Monday to Friday 8.30am-4.30pm).

The role involves being part of the multi disciplinary team, whom provide high standards of patient care to our in patients and outpatients within the Trust.  The post hold will assist the  with booking of inpatients ultrasounds lists ensuring service delivery is prompt and effective.  They will also support the radiology assistants band 2 throughout the department with their rosters and ensuring safe skill mix within the clinical areas for Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound.

Main duties of the job

The role involves liaising with Sonographers/Radiographers/ Radiologists and ward areas to ensure inpatients ultrasounds are booked according to urgency in appropriate scan slots, to ensure ultrasound scan capacity is optimised. Booking outpatient  appointments in accordance with booking templates (when required) to support the departmental booking team and to communicate effectively with patients any necessary preparation prior to their appointment.

The role involves supporting the radiology assistant team band 2's and undertake daily management of their roster.  Compiling the radiology assistant roster ensuring this is collated in a timely manner as per Trust standards, taking into account skill mix in each of the clinical areas supported by the radiology assistant team. To actively assist the lead nurse with radiology assistants annual leave requests and undertake the  assignment of bank duties on the Optima system in line with Trust practices. To assist in the induction process for new radiology assistants, and arrange the training for the new radiology assistants within all the clinical areas within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound

Working for our organisation

We have a long and proud history of caring for generations of local people and can trace our roots all the way back to 1814 with the first hospital in Bolton – the Bolton Dispensary in the town centre.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust was formed in 2008 and, in 2011, we became an integrated provider with community health services joining the trust. Covering a catchment area that also incorporates parts of Bury, Wigan and Salford, we deliver hospital and community based services from the Royal Bolton Hospital in Farnworth and from 20 health centres across Bolton, to a catchment population of 310,000+ people. 

The Royal Bolton Hospital is a major hub within Greater Manchester for women’s and children’s services and is the busiest single ambulance-receiving site in Greater Manchester.  We’re structured in four clinical divisions – Community Services, Families and Diagnostics, Medicine, and Surgery and are led by a Board of Directors. As an NHS Foundation Trust we’re accountable to our members and have a Council of Governors to represent the views of patients, public, staff and partners.   

Buildings, names and models of care have changed over the centuries, but one thing has remained constant and is prevalent among our 6,718 staff members: the enduring commitment to providing the best health and care for the people of Bolton.