Healthcare Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Nuffield Health

Nuffield Health

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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CLINICAL & MEDICAL
Healthcare Assistant

Healthcare Assistant

Nuffield Health St Bartholomew's Hospital | Hospital | Permanent | Full time

We have an exciting opportunity for an Imaging Assistant to join our team in opening a brand-new hospital in London,

At Nuffield Health, your role calls for equal excellence in both administration and people skills. You'll be adept at working quickly and accurately, with a great eye for detail.

You'll also need a caring nature and the ability to see each patient as an individual and carry out this role with understanding and empathy.

Here, you'll help deliver a high quality diagnostic imaging services.

You will join our multi-disciplinary team of Administrators, Consultants and Radiographers.

As our Imaging Assistant you will:

Be in-charge of the day-to-day running of our US service (with supervision available from a qualified member of staff at all times).

Assist the consultant radiologists by laying out equipment required for interventional procedures.

Assist with clinical lists in mammography, CT and MRI.

Be responsible for stock maintenance and re-ordering as required.

Speak with patients from their arrival into the department, throughout their procedure and advise them on post-procedure care and results gathering.

You will be responsible for several US machines, including weekly and daily testing as well as cleaning and decontamination.

You will chaperone patients for all examinations and be the patient advocate during their time with us.

Be flexible enough to take on administrative tasks within the department as they are required.

The Person

To succeed as an Imaging Assistant you will need:
Previous experience working in a hospital setting (ideally within Radiology).

A level-2 healthcare qualification (Desirable)

Understand the need for complete document recording.

A caring nature - to see each patient as an individual and carry out this role with understanding and empathy.

Excellent communication and team working abilities.

To be able work well as part of a team, as well as under your own initiative.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Choose from private healthcare to free financial advice, a cycle to work scheme, emotional wellbeing support and more. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

Nuffield Health at St Bartholomew's Hospital: The City of London's only independent hospital, situated next to St Bartholomew's NHS hospital.

This will be our flagship centre for cardiac services and will also provide a full range of surgical and medical services, including:
orthopaedics, oncology, general surgery, gynaecology and urology services.

The new hospital will consist of:48 inpatient and day case bedrooms

28 consultation rooms

Three digital operating theatres

Cardiac catheterisation lab

Specialist intensive care beds

Oncology day unit

Endoscopy and minor ops theatre

Full diagnostic imaging suite including MRI, CT, ultrasound, mammography and general X-ray

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

It starts with you.