Cardiology assistant | Medway Community Healthcare CIC

Medway Community Healthcare CIC; Hale; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare organization in Hale is looking for a healthcare support worker to join the cardiology team. This role involves assisting with diagnostics, conducting blood tests, and providing rehabilitation support. Ideal candidates will have strong organizational skills and be IT literate. The organization promotes a flexible working environment, ensuring a healthy work-life balance. Full training will be provided to support patient care within a friendly team.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Two pension schemes provided

Comprehensive training and support

Qualifications

• Passion for supporting patients in cardiac rehabilitation.
• Good organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Willingness to undertake training for specific tasks.

Responsibilities

• Take venous blood tests for patients as appropriate.
• Carry out cardiology diagnostic tests in clinics and home visits.
• Assist in phase 3 exercise provision for the patients.
• Undertake near patient blood sampling for INR reading.

Skills

Organisational skills

IT literacy

Attention to detail

Job description

About the role

• Do you have a passion in working for a friendly team supporting the specialist nurses with diagnostics and cardiac rehabilitation classes.
• Do you have a friendly welcoming manager, putting your patients at the heart of what you do.
• Do you have an eye for detail, having good organisational skills.

This is an opportunity to work within a well established, friendly team supporting the specialist nurses with diagnostics and cardiac rehabilitation classes. You will work across all cardiology teams, have a level of autonomy organising your working week and after induction be expected to prioritise unaided, you will be IT literate to input and use patient records and use it systems for diagnostics following training.

Responsibilities

• Take venous blood tests for patients as appropriate (after training).
• Carry out cardiology diagnostic tests in a clinic and home visit.
• Work across all cardiology teams, have a level of autonomy organising your working week and after induction be expected to prioritise unaided, you will be IT literate to input and use patient records and use it systems for diagnostics following training. environment such as 24 hour BP monitoring, ECG, event recorder fitting. (full training provided)
• To assist in phase 3 exercise provision. assessing and monitoring patients, providing education and motivating patients in their rehabilitation. (Full training provided)
• Undertake near patient blood sampling ( finger pricking) to obtain INR reading . (Full training provided)
• Abide by code of conduct for healthcare support workers.

About the service

• Community cardiology is made up of a fast moving, forward thinking services, it is a hard working, supportive and enjoyable environment to work within.
• This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you’ll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
• We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
• We’ll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
• You’ll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The small print

• Informal visits can be arranged on request.
• We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the Scottish widows group pension scheme.
• MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.

You will work across all cardiology teams, supporting current unregistered roles and carrying out phlebotomy for the services.

Once trained you will work unsupervised in some parts of your role which will include visiting patients in their homes and sometimes in clinics as well as in cardiac rehabilitation classes.

You will always have the support of senior staff when required.

This advert closes on Friday 2 Jan 2026