Healthcare Assistant

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to join our team. You will need to demonstrate experience working in a 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.

Please note that we will be interviewing throughout the duration of this advert. Therefore if you are interested in this role an early application is advised as we may close the advert prior to the advertised date.

The candidate should have experience in a healthcare environment and be able to provide both administration and customer/patient support including chaperoning patients and assisting the Radiographers throughout the scanning process. Responsibilities also involve administration duties related to the patient pathway in line with standard guidelines, making telephone bookings for patients, and understanding and complying with radiation protection protocols. Excellent patient care skills are essential, and you must have good communication skills (written and verbal), good IT and administration skills, attention to detail, flexibility, organisation, and an enthusiastic attitude. You will need to be able to work with a high degree of accuracy and under pressure, meeting deadlines and turnaround times.

• 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.

• 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.