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About This Role:

This is an exciting opportunity for a Administrator/ Health Care Assistant to join the team at in the Turner Diagnostic Centre (TDC) at Colchester General Hospital.

Turner Diagnostic Centre. The Turner Diagnostic centre is a new purpose built multi-modality imaging centre which opened in 2018, and is based in the grounds of the Colchester General Hospital, a busy NHS site.

Colchester has good rail links and the hospital is situated close to the railway station.

The role will involve meeting and greeting patients for MRI and preparing them for their scan and assisting the radiographers.As well as patient support, there will be administrative tasks as part of our IT patient management processes.

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.

The hours will be 40 hours per week working Monday-Sunday – predominantly working 12 hour shifts.

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.

Required Skills and Experience

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.

You 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 MRI Radiographers throughout the MRI scanning process.

And have a commitment to all 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.

We also support the scanner at the Clacton CDH based at the Clacton & District Hospital – so some clinical shifts may be at Clacton

We are a busy site, closely linked to the NHS, processing and booking 80+ appointments a day for 4 MRI scanners.

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

Alliance Medical Values:

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.