Bank Healthcare Assistant - Imaging
Employer not yet confirmed · Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Bank Healthcare Assistant - Imaging | Spire Harrogate Clinic | Competitive rate of pay
Spire Harrogate Clinic is looking for a Healthcare Assistant to join their busy imaging team on a bank 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:
- Previous experience of working in an Imaging Department
- Administrative experience involving checking and monitoring
- Customer focused
- Awareness of Health and Safety and hygiene
Benefits:
- Bank colleagues are paid weekly
- We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
- Access to Spire Healthcare pension
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
- Free uniform
- Free DBS
- Full induction, including mandatory training updates
- Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
- Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
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 that has been putting patients at the heart of everything we do for over 40 years.
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