Healthcare Assistant

Alliance Medical; Southampton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliance Medical is seeking a Healthcare Assistant at Southampton MRI, Southampton General Hospital. You will join a dedicated team including Senior Radiographers, Radiographers, Assistant Practitioners, and administrative staff, providing patient care and administrative support.

The role requires 40 hours per week in a full-time, permanent position. Experience in clinical settings with strong communication and IT skills is essential, as is a commitment to patient care and safety.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Healthcare environment dealing with patients.
• Ability to support Radiographers during scanning and patient care.
• Strong written and verbal communication; good IT and administration skills.
• Commitment to radiation protection protocols and patient safety.

Responsibilities

• Assist Radiographers during patient scans and examinations.
• Chaperone patients when required and support smooth patient flow.
• Handle administrative tasks including making telephone bookings for patients attending services.
• Maintain accurate records and support patient pathway processes.

Skills

Healthcare environment experience

Communication skills

IT & administration skills

Chaperoning Patients

Job description

Location: Southampton MRI, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD

Salary: £27,970 per annum

Working Pattern: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 40

Job Summary

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to join our team. 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.

Skills And Experience

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.

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.

Main duties of the job

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

About us

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.

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.