Job summary
A great opportunity to drive clinical excellence within an innovative NHS GP practice.
We are recruiting a Health Care Assistant to work alongside our established team to provide high class clinical care to our patient population.
As a vital member of our team, you will play a pivotal role providing and delivering prescribed programmes of patient care.
Main duties of the job
Duties and Responsibilities
- New patient health checks
- ECG recording
- Phlebotomy
- Spirometry
- Wound care, ulcer care and Doppler
- Influenza, Pneumonia and B12 injections
- Ear syringing
- Hypertension and CVD risk assessments, inc 24 hour BP monitoring
- Chaperoning duties
- Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs/Nurses
- Maintenance of surgical equipment
- Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording
- Surgical equipment and vaccine re-stocking and stock rotation
- Clearing and re-stocking consulting rooms
- Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions including assisting GPs during the performance of minor operations
- Assisting in the assessment and surveillance of patients health and well-being
- Undertaking specific clinical activities for named patients that have been delegated and taught specifically in relation to that individual
- Helping to raise awareness of health and well-being and how it can be promoted
- Assisting with the collection and collation of data on needs related to health and well-being
About us
Health Care First Partnership (HCF) is a partnership formed by a group of high-quality practices: Dr Bance & Partners, Ferrybridge Medical Centre, Queen Street Surgery and FMC Health Solutions Limited (t/a Park View Surgery). We came together to deliver modern services that are high quality and will meet the needs of our patients into the future.
HCF is a General Practice Partnership open to all patients living within our practice boundary within Methley, Castleford, Ferrybridge, Airedale, Normanton and surrounding villages. We work in partnership with our patients and our Patient Forum to provide medical care for our patients.
We are a Personal Medical Services (PMS) practice offering Primary Care Services for the diagnosis and prevention of disease. We help patients to manage their health and prevent illness. Our GPs assess, diagnose, treat and manage illness. They carry out screening for some diseases and promote general health and wellbeing. Our GPs act as a patients advocate, supporting and representing a patients best interests to ensure they receive the best and most appropriate health and/or social care.
The Practice has a current list size of 31,500 patients and we are part of the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (formerly NHS Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group).
Date posted
09 January 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Compressed hours
Reference number
A1815-25-0000
Job locations
Pinfold Surgery
Pinfold Lane
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS26 9AA
Doctors Surgery
Queen Street
Normanton
West Yorkshire
WF6 2BU
8-10
High Street
Knottingley
West Yorkshire
WF11 8NQ
Elizabeth Court Surgery
Elizabeth Drive
Castleford
West Yorkshire
WF10 3TG
Castleford Health Centre
Welbeck Street
Castleford
WF10 1HB
Employer details
Employer name
Health Care First Partnership
Address
Pinfold Surgery
Pinfold Lane
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS26 9AA
Employer's website
https://www.healthcarefirst.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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