Radiology Department Assistant

Golders Green Outpatients & Diagnostics Centre (NW11 9PY)

37.5 hours per week - Monday-Friday 09:00-17:00

Competitive basic salary and HCA Healthcare UK benefits (Listed below)

Benefits:

Apart from a generous salary package, as an HCA employee you will have access to the to the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance
• Contributory Pension
• Critical Illness Cover
• Subsidised Gym membership
• Option to buy / sell holidays
• Life Assurance
• Travel Insurance
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Portland Maternity Services

Job Description

As a Radiology Department Assistant, you will assist with day to day roles within the service; supporting procedures, meeting and greeting patients, completing necessary documentation and help maintain the smooth running of the department.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Organize Ultrasound workload including charging patients, chaperoning patients when required and dealing with all necessary paperwork.
• To assist the radiographers in preparing patients for all imaging procedures as necessary.
• To assist with moving patients within the department as necessary.
• To assist with setting up for procedures as required.
• To assist in maintaining the tidiness and cleanliness of the department.
• To help with the maintenance of stock levels in all rooms e.g. linen etc and consumables etc.
• To collect and escort in-patients to and from the department.
• Organize refreshments for patients when required.
• To assist the Radiographers and other staff in the department as required.
• To rotate between departments/ areas/modalities as required.
• Respond appropriately to accidents or untoward incidents/occurrences that arise within the unit and provide accurate documentation.
• To be conversant with all local policies and procedures and to act accordingly.
• Ensure the safety of patients and staff and ensure that all incidents are reported to the Manager.
• Ensure that all equipment is used safely and effectively. Experience of working with members of the public is essential.

Skills and experience

• Right to work in the UK
• UK Hospital experience essential
• Radiology Department experience is preferred
• NVQ3 in Health Care is desirable
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Exceptional communication and organisation skills.
• Competent IT user

HCA Healthcare UK – The World’s largest private healthcare group; providing award winning primary, acute and complex care.

The Wellington Hospital has over four decades of expertise; providing the highest level of care for patients who are looking for the best treatment in key areas of healthcare, including: neurosurgery, spinal surgery, cardiac care, orthopaedics, acute neurological rehabilitation, gynaecology and cancer care.

In our 50-bed Acute Neurological Rehabilitation Unit we care for patients with a wide range of complex neurological conditions. And we're supported by the UK’s largest private intensive care unit. We also offer the latest cancer and robotic surgery treatments, including electrochemotherapy, HIPEC and the da Vinci Robot. Having the largest neurosciences unit in London means we're able to carry out advanced spinal surgery, intracranial and peripheral nerve surgery as well as pioneering neurosurgery.

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