Healthcare Assistant

About This Role

Due to unprecedented growth, we have an exciting opportunity available for experienced Healthcare Assistants to join the team at Alliance Medical London.

Alliance Medical London is our flagship site in the centre of London, Made up of two private facilities, AML Marylebone and AML Harley Street, they are based in the vibrant London, both sites are rated as ‘good’ with CQC. We have a good team, and we are keen on developing staff. We have a wide mix of patients, including Private, VIPs and NHS patients. We have close relationships with consultants and radiologists.

AML Marylebone and AML Harley Street are within 5 minutes of each other and you would be required to work at both.

Purpose of The Job:

• Provide a support service to both sites, optimising care standards for all patients, staff and visitors.

• Develop skills in line with Training and developmental opportunities and courses.

• Maintain high standards of Health and Safety in line with current H&S Codes and policies.

• Carry out other work and duties as the workload may require.

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

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 MRI Radiographers throughout the MRI 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.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Supporting the patient pathway (inc. on and off the scanner)
• Supporting the clinical team with day to day running
• Up dating clinical systems such as CPM
• Organsing and rotating stock
• Pre and post assessment of patients
• Completing audits where required
• Ensuring they deliver high quality patient care

Desirable to have experience in (will offer training)

• Phlebotomy
• Cannulation
• ECG

About Alliance Medical

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.