Healthcare Assistant Leeds, England
Job description
About This Role:
We have a new opportunity for a Healthcare Assistants to join us at our Leeds PET-CT centre based at St James Hospital.
At Leeds PET-CT we partner with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, delivering optimum care whilst ensuring a safe working environment. We emphasise the quality of service provided at our flagship site in Yorkshire where we are currently investing in a new state-of-the-art digital scanner.
This is a full time role working 40 hours a week
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:
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 you meet and greet patients, this is an excellent opportunity for individuals with an interest in healthcare. Role responsibilities include:
- Assisting in patient preparation
- Chaperoning
- Cannulation
- Positioning of MRI patients on the scanner and MRI coil changes
- Clinical stock management
- Clinical audits
- Processing of patients via our E-Systems
- Admin cover where necessary
- Optimise patient care throughout the service delivery, particularly in maintaining confidentiality, dignity and privacy
- Be passionate about providing the best possible customer care to all patients
- You must be able to work well under pressure both independently and as part of a team
To be successful in this role you must be able to demonstrate good communication, IT and administration skills, alongside a compassionate and enthusiastic demeanour.
A flexible, organised and enthusiastic attitude is essential. Experience in the healthcare industry is preferred but not necessary as full training will be provided. Competency in IV cannulation would however be advantageous.
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.
Alliance Medical 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.
