Cardiac Rehabilitation Administrative Assistant

Job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic individual to join our team to provide high quality administration support as well as provide support to the patient group exercise and education sessions when required.

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic the cardiac rehabilitation service has had to adapt and develop new ways of working to deliver the service. We have recently started to resume face to face services following the restrictions placed on the service since March 2020.

This is a unique opportunity to gain new clinical knowledge and skills and develop your training and experience in a specialist area.

The role currently is mainly administration based however as the service resumes there will be opportunities to be involved in assisting with the face to face patient sessions; as such, experience of patient care / HCA training and experience is advantageous however relevant clinical training will be provided to the successful candidate.

Main duties of the job

You will work within the cardiac prevention and rehabilitation team with specialist nurses and exercise specialists, along with support from a wider multi-disciplinary team, to deliver a programme of exercise and education which adheres to the National Standards of the British Association for Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation and Core Components for Cardiac Rehabilitation.

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, St George's Hospital is the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

The main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, St Georges Hospital provides a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across south west London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases.