Healthcare Assistant

Alliance Medical; Colchester; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliance Medical’s Turner Diagnostic Centre in Colchester is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to join the team for 40 hours per week.

You will support Radiographers, assist with patient preparation and chaperoning, perform cannulation with training provided, and handle administration and patient pathways in line with guidelines. Excellent communication and IT skills are essential.

Join a dedicated team delivering high-quality patient care in a busy imaging environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare environment dealing with patients.
• Ability to provide administration and patient support.
• Willingness to perform IV cannulation with training provided.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in patient preparation
• Chaperoning
• Cannulation
• Positioning of patients on the scanner
• Clinical stock management
• Clinical audits
• Processing of patients via our E-Systems

Skills

Patient care

Communication skills

Administration

IT skills

IV cannulation

Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to join our team at the Turner Diagnostic Centre in Colchester. You will need to demonstrate experience working in healthcare environment dealing with patients.

You will be working with a dedicated team of Senior Radiographers/Radiographers, Assistant Practitioners, HCA’s, and administrative staff.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Healthcare Assistant to work 40 hours per week. The successful applicant will need experience working in clinical settings or the healthcare environment.

The candidate should have experience in a Healthcare environment as they will be required to provide both administration and customer/patient, support including chaperoning patients and assisting the Radiographers throughout the scanning process. They will also have a commitment to some admin duties related to the patient pathway in line with standard guidelines. To be successful in this role they must have good communication skills both written and verbal, together with good IT and administration skills and the ability to understand and comply with radiation protection protocols. Excellent patient care skills are essential.

You will also be required to IV cannulate patients as part of the role. Rest assured, should you not have any prior experience in IV cannulation, we will provide full training.

Attention to detail is key, along with being flexible, organized and having an enthusiastic attitude.

You will need to be able to work with a high degree of accuracy and under pressure, meeting deadlines and turn- around times.

To be successful in this role you must have good communication skills both written and verbal, together with good IT and administration skills. A flexible, organized and enthusiastic attitude is essential with a good attention to detail.

In this role you will be supporting Radiographers during patients scans. It will also involve assisting patients and chaperoning when necessary. There may also be an aspect of administration as a key element of the role is to make telephone bookings for patients attending our services.

To be successful in this role you must have good communication skills both written and verbal, together with good IT and administration skills. A flexible, organized and enthusiastic attitude is essential.

Role responsibilities include:

• Assisting in patient preparation
• Chaperoning
• Cannulation
• Positioning of patients on the scanner
• Clinical stock management
• Clinical audits
• Processing of patients via our E-Systems

Alliance Medical are Europe’s leading independent provider of imaging services.

We combine service excellence and innovative imaging technologies to improve patient care and support NHS and independent organisations with their ongoing imaging requirements. Our approach has delivered consistent company growth for more than 30 years.

We live by our company values to ensure the highest level of patient care:

Our Values

Leaders, managers, and supervisors have a particular responsibility to be role models in terms of how they demonstrate these values themselves and how they engage their teams to work in this way.

Collaboration:

We work together and in partnership for all our patients. We respect expertise and combine it to achieve more.

Excellence:

We never compromise. We strive to deliver the very best in everything we do to ensure the highest quality of care. We treat our patients and each other with compassion, dignity and respect.

Learning:

Knowledge and understanding comes from learning. At Alliance Medical we are committed to ensuring that each and every one of us keeps on learning and that we continuously look for improved ways of working.

Efficiency:

Efficiency in healthcare means more patients get better care. We constantly seek new ways to use the scarce resource of healthcare more intelligently so that more people can live longer, fuller lives.

Openness:

We act with transparency and honesty in everything we do, where staff are encouraged to speak up to ensure a safe and secure environment for our patients.