AAA Screening Technician

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read and familiarise yourself with the job description and personal specification attachments located within the supporting document section of this advert. These documents will provide a comprehensive overview of this exciting role. Please include in your personal statement how you will meet the personal specification criteria.

The most important attributes you will need to bring to the post are a strong commitment to health care provision, excellent organisational skills, dependability, a willingness to learn and an ability to work within a small team.

Person specification

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's values and behavioural standards

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Good standard of general education (5 GCSEs A-C grade or equivalent, including English and Maths)
• Must be willing to undertake any internal and external training
• Must be able to demonstrate ongoing personal development

Desirable criteria

• Have NVQ level 3 Diploma for Health Screeners
• Successfully reaccredited as a AAA Screening Technician

Experience

Essential criteria

• Must understand hospital environment and patient care & confidentiality
• Evidence of understanding medical terminology
• Previous use and understanding of computer systems
• Competent in the use of Microsoft office software
• Working in a team
• Strong evidence of communicating sensitive information

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in community setting
• NHS experience
• Performing ultrasound

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal skills to deal with participants and external contacts.
• Good clear spoken and written English
• Politeness and patience
• Ability to work within a team and to effectively liaise with people at all levels, including where there are barriers to understanding

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to make unsupervised judgements on patient enquiries and problems.
• Awareness of when to request advice from senior staff
• Ability to work on own initiative

Planning and Organisation Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent organisational skills
• Flexible & independent approach to work
• Ability to work under pressure
• Attention to detail
• Good work ethic

Physical Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to undertake ultrasound scanning which may be repetitive
• Good hand eye co-ordination
• Ability to transport equipment from vehicles to various screening locations around the county
• Ability to move / lift ultrasound machines
• Accurate data entry skills
• Ability to stand and be mobile for extended periods of time

Other requirements specific to the role (eg be able to drive or work shifts)

Essential criteria

• Must be able to work flexibly - some early evenings and Saturdays required
• Ability to concentrate and multi-task
• Ability to adapt to different working environments
• Ability to take frequent interruptions
• Ability and willingness to travel between units and centres
• Ability and willingness to transport screening equipment and other items between units and centres
• Ability to undertake role related training and achieve required standard
• Willingness to attend meetings and training events throughout the UK
• Must be able to drive
• Must hold a full UK driving licence; insurance to include business use as extensive travel is required around the county
• Use of own vehicle for work purposes
• DBS check satisfactory to the Trust

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

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