Delegate Katie Scott

YOUR HACSU DELEGATE

KATIE SCOTT

LGH Radiology

I'm a radiographer at Launceston General Hospital. Depending on the number of staff on shift I'll be running between our department, emergency, ICU, theatre and the wards seeing inpatients and outpatients for various imaging procedures as well as teaching students who visit us on clinical placement. I've been in this industry for 13 years with almost 10 of those at the LGH, and while studying radiology I worked as a casual hospital aide at the LGH. In 2011 I joined HACSU, became a delegate in August last year, and so far am enjoying learning about the role of delegates, the union, relevant legislation and the award. As a delegate I want to help improve the culture in medical imaging at LGH and our relationships with other hospital departments through creating professional developement activities and encouraging research. With this we can hopefully improve our recruitment, retention of staff and morale, thus building on our already excellent team.

When not at work I enjoy having friends over for dinner, I don’t cook though, that’s down to my chef husband, I'm also addicted to Korean dramas on Netflix.

The hardest part of 2020 for me was that every year I try to do a locum somewhere to broaden my experience, but I was unable to do that because of the COVID-19 restrictions, but in the second semester of studies at UTAS last year I completed a COVID subsidised postgraduate certificate in health professional education.