Senior Health Care Support Worker - Clinical Imaging

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Patient Care and Support:
• Assist in the preparation of patients for radiology procedures, including obtaining consent, explaining procedures, and providing reassurance.
• Help with patient positioning on the examination table, ensuring their comfort and safety during the procedure.
• Monitor patients' comfort and emotional well-being before, during, and after procedures.
• Provide post-procedure care, including monitoring vital signs, ensuring proper recovery, and assisting with discharge instructions.

2. Clinical Support:
• Assist the radiology team by preparing equipment and sterile supplies for procedures such as biopsies, Fine needle aspirations, catheter insertions, and other minimally invasive procedures.
• Maintain cleanliness and sterility in the procedure room, ensuring all instruments and equipment are properly cleaned, sterilized, and stored.
• Support the clinical team by handing instruments and materials during procedures as required.
• Assist with patient transfer to and from the procedure room, ensuring safe handling of patients, especially those with mobility challenges.

3. Administrative Tasks:
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date patient records, including documentation of vital signs, patient conditions, and care provided.
• Assist with managing patient appointments and ensuring efficient workflow in the department.
• Maintain and stock supplies, including sterile equipment, dressings, and medications, ensuring the procedure rooms are always ready.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Functional skills minimum Level 1 Maths and English as assessed via BKSB (Basic and Key Skills Builder Aptitude) Test or GCSE equivalent
• Good standard of spoken and written English
• Completed Care Certificate

Desirable criteria

• Computer literate, familiar with ADT & Symphony system

Experience

Essential criteria

• Working in acute healthcare setting
• Endoscopy Experience in clinical
• Previous Health Care Assistant experience
• Endoscopy administration experience in scheduling

Desirable criteria

• Managing people and services
• Working in healthcare environment.

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good general health
• Manual dexterit
• Able to undertake moving and handling duties

Important

• There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date, this will be due to a high volume of applications. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please check your emails regularly (and your junk folder) as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.
• Some roles may require weekend shift working across multiple sites
• We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Right to work

If you need sponsorship to work in the UK, please visit the Home Office website for information on sponsorship and visa status before you fill in your application form. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on