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Healthcare Assistant – Lung Cancer Screening Programme

📍 Location: South West – Covering sites in Cornwall and Plymouth with occasional cover in Devon
🚗 Travel: Full UK Driving Licence Required
⏰ Shifts: 12-hour patterns, 3 days a week (8am–8pm), including weekends and bank holidays

Make a real difference in early cancer detection.

Join InHealth’s Lung Cancer Screening Programme and be part of a vital service that helps detect lung cancer early—when treatment is most effective. As a Healthcare Assistant (HCA), you’ll play a key role in delivering a professional, compassionate, and patient-focused experience across our mobile screening sites in South West.

What you’ll do:

Welcome patients and guide them through their screening journey with empathy and professionalism
Support clinical colleagues in delivering high-quality care in a fast-paced, mobile environment
Assist with patient handovers between screening and CT scan locations
Maintain accurate patient records and ensure data confidentiality
Help manage clinic flow, support scheduling, and respond to patient queries
Uphold high standards of cleanliness, safety, and infection control
Contribute to a 7-day service, including bank holidays, with occasional remote admin work

What we’re looking for:

Experience in a patient or customer-facing role
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Confidence using Microsoft Office and patient management systems
A flexible, team-oriented approach with the ability to adapt to changing priorities
A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel across sites

What you’ll bring:

A calm, compassionate, and professional manner
A proactive attitude and the ability to work well under pressure
A commitment to maintaining patient dignity, privacy, and safety
An understanding of data protection and confidentiality (GDPR

What's in it for you

In addition to this, we also offer:

27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
Generous company contribution pension scheme
Sick pay for peace of mind, so you can rest and recover without financial worry
Private medical insurance options
Life assurance
Hybrid and flexible working opportunities
Fantastic learning and development opportunities
24/7 access to a dedicated well-being hub and Employee Assistance Programme
Enhanced parental leave
Monthly award programme and online peer-to-peer recognition
Long service recognition, with vouchers and additional annual leave
Refer a friend bonus
Discounts on our healthcare services
Smart tech, Cycle to Work, and thousands of discounts and cashback options
For eligible* roles - an additional payment of £10 per hour, up to £50 per day, for each weekend day worked - paid monthly in arrears
Paid-for professional memberships and more!

Supporting our people’s happiness at work is a top priority. That means offering meaningful opportunities for personal and professional growth, with an innovative approach to development that helps you be the best version of yourself and build a real career pathway.

* This includes colleagues delivering face to face patient care in the Lung screening mobile units, Endoscopy, AAA Screening, Breast Screening, PET-CT, Audiology, Mobiles, Imaging Centres and CDC’s. Note that this payment is not applicable to clinical staff working within the Echocardiography division, or Diabetic Eye Screening. The Weekend Payment does not apply to those on a flexible working agreement and part time workers that have requested to work weekend hours/days as part of their working agreement. The Weekend Payment also doesn’t apply to those who are working remotely or carrying out administrative work from home.

About us

InHealth is the UK’s largest specialist provider of diagnostic and healthcare solutions, working in partnership with the NHS for more than 30 years to make healthcare better for more than 5 million patients each year.

Behind every test, scan and assessment is a team of people helping our services run smoothly, efficiently and with care. With opportunities across community, hospital and office-based settings, InHealth offers the chance to grow your career in a people-focused organisation where your work supports millions of patients and helps bring high-quality healthcare closer to local communities.

InHealth is a place where you're trusted to do your job well, supported by people who value your expertise and give you the space to act on it. Teams show up for each other, leaders back your judgment and help remove blockers rather than create them.

New opportunities open as we grow - whether that's progressing, moving sideways or taking on something different as your strengths evolve. And everything we do is focussed on making healthcare better - for patients, partners and the people delivering care.

Read more about us here: Who We Are - InHealth Group

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