Spire Healthcare
Job title:
Healthcare Assistant – Imaging
Company
Spire Healthcare
Job description
Job Description:
Healthcare Assistant – Imaging | Spire Murrayfield – Edinburgh | Competitive salary
Spire Murrayfield Hospital in Edinburgh is looking for a Healthcare Assistant to join their busy imaging team on a permanent basis. The HCA will provide exemplary patient care and examination, working within set protocols within the diagnostic imaging department.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Undertake routine tasks related to individual’s health and well being
- Assess the health and well being needs of people whose needs are relatively stable and consistent
- Establish and maintain communication with people on routine care matters
- Develop own and others’ personal development
- Monitor and maintain health and safety and security for self and others
- Contribute to the implementation of services
- Promote people’s equality, diversity and rights
- Collect, collate and report routine and simple data and information
- Assist in the application of technology for measurement, monitoring and treatment
- Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI
- Assisting in maintaining agreed stock levels of consumable items
- Preparing and assisting with general and specialised procedures including biopsies
- Ensuring a clean and hygienic working environment
- Preparing patients for treatment
- Being involved in the manual handling of patients
- Recognising equipment faults and reporting these immediately
- Undertaking basic maintenance of equipment
The ideal candidate:
- Experience in a customer facing role providing high standards of customer care
- Administrative experience involving checking and monitoring
- Awareness of Health and Safety and hygiene
Benefits:
We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
- ‘Spire for you’ reward platform – discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
- Free Bupa wellness screening
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.
For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Katie Willis via
For us, it’s more than just treating patients; it’s about looking after people.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
About Us:
At Spire Healthcare, caring is our passion. We have been putting patients at the heart of everything we do for over 25 years. We’re committed to looking after people, both patients and staff. We deliver high standards of care to our insured, self-pay and NHS patients across 39 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms. Our successful business is led by an experienced and stable senior management team, we provide the highest quality of care through the latest medical technology, new facilities, and a focus on inspiring leadership and employee development.
We have achieved our market leading position because of our Purpose, which is to ‘make a positive difference to people’s lives through outstanding personalised care’. Everyone at Spire is aligned to this purpose, which underpins a culture of respect, inclusion, passion and collaboration across our business, enabling us to achieve more than 98% of our hospitals being rated ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ by the Regulators; these are sector leading standards.
About the Team: Since 1984 Spire Edinburgh Hospitals have been delivering outstanding healthcare in the east of Scotland. We work with leading consultant physicians and surgeons to offer an extensive suite of services for diagnosing and treating a wide range of conditions.
Expected salary
Location
Edinburgh – Midlothian
Job date
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:54:45 GMT
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