Diagnostic Assistant Bolton

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities:

1.To support qualified clinicians in supporting patients seen within Diagnostics

2.Acting as a Chaperone to safeguard patients and colleagues.

3.Work to attain the service KPIs and targets

4.Ensure all patient contact is recorded in a timely manner on the IT systems to enable tracking of patient outcomes, both in real-time to support ongoing intervention planning and retrospectively to understand the impact of the service.

5.To ensure mandatory training is kept up to date.

6.Acknowledge and accommodate barriers to communication and understanding including speech, hearing, language, and emotion.

7.Flexibility in attending organised educational updates and eagerness to expand on current knowledge base and cascading new educational information to colleagues whenever possible.

8.Inform the Clinical Manager of any untoward incidents Work within all relevant policies and procedural guidelines e.g., infection control, safeguarding, chaperoning and risk management.

9.Dispose of clinical waste in a safe manner

10.Contribute to infection control measures by adhering to infection control policies/procedures.

11.To follow systems and procedures to ensure that each patients journey is managed effectively and in a timely fashion.

12.To ensure that patient information is available to relevant healthcare professionals when it is required.

13.To assist in the development of systems to ensure continued efficiency.

14.To assist in improving the quality of information provided to patients at all times.

15.To ensure all information collected is held securely and in confidence

16.To undertake relevant training where necessary

17.To respond quickly to requests for information in accordance with policies and procedures and to be responsible for following the procedures relating to data quality standards for health records.

18.To carry out other relevant duties as instructed by the Head of Diagnostics.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemption Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. This will require three forms of valid ID to be produced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as evidence).

Disability Confident Employer - As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy

The organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. You will be expected to fulfil your mandatory safeguarding training at the level applicable to this role.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Please note we are unable to support visa applications at this time

Person Specification

Specific Job Requirements

Essential

• Be capable of performing safe manual handling and assisting patients

Qualifications

Desirable

• Educated to GCSE/O Level standard including English Language and Mathematics or equivalent training or healthcare related qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of computer programmes and IT systems.
• Able to work under pressure and have a degree of resilience.
• Able to demonstrate effective partnership/team working

Desirable

• Information Governance understanding and awareness.
• Experience within a healthcare environment
• Experience of clinical systems
• Clinical governance understanding and awareness

Skills, Knowledge & Competencies

Essential

• Communication skills (verbal and written)
• IT skills

Other

Essential

• Being able to work with our corporate values
• Enthusiastic and positive
• Approachable
• Team Player
• Always aims for excellence
• Ability to produce creative solutions to issues

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

FCMS

Address

Bolton Medical Centre

21 Rupert Street

Bolton

BL3 6PY

Employer's website

http://www.fcms-nw.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)