Technical Assistant, Healthcare

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Princess Royal University Hospital Town Orpington Salary £32,199 - £34,876 per annum pro rata including HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 23/01/2026 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c £1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

The post holder will assist the cardiac diagnostic and echocardiography service at PRUH and help co-ordinate pathways and IP flow liaising closely with the Principal Head of Dept. and Principal Echocardiographer.

This will involve helping to schedule both inpatient and outpatient studies to ensure that available capacity is utilised as efficiently as possible. The post holder will be responsible for:

all incoming queries for cardiac diagnostics and will be the point of communication between administration staff, clinical, nursing and healthcare scientists and act as the main point of contact between the department and internal/external specialities, regarding requests for studies, timing of studies and communication of results.

• To be the point of contact for any telephone queries for all non-invasive cardiac diagnostics except CRM follow-up clinics, from GPs, wards, A&E
• To co-ordinate with the front desk on any queries
• To help reschedule IPs and schedule urgent all cardiac diagnostics
• To liaise with OP Clinic for urgent cardiac diagnostics
• Co-ordinate the sanctioning process for echo referrals
• Assist in audit in a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis and for scorecard data

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

• To demonstrate an awareness of the needs and priorities of co‑workers, both within the Cardiac Department and the Cardiac Catheter Suite; coordinating and cooperating with other members of the team.
• To attend and participate in departmental meetings and to contribute to issues relating to quality of care, technical standards and efficiency improvements, as applied to own area of work.
• To demonstrate a basic awareness of stock control and ordering systems and of the importance of monitoring expenditure and efficiency of stock usage and to communicate with senior colleagues informed to allow them to manage these.
• To undertake work in a timely and efficient way, meeting deadlines and keeping senior colleagues informed of changes in own…