Health Care Assistant

Job summary

We are looking for a Healthcare Assistant join our team providing general practice services including; simple dressings, NHS Health checks, ECGs, blood pressure checks, administering injections such as Flu and pneumonia, phlebotomy, long term condition reviews etc who will work full-time or part-time during our network core hours which are 8 am 8 pm Monday to Friday and 9 am 5 pm on a Saturday on a rota basis.

Main duties of the job

Working under the supervision of the Lead Nurse and team members demonstrate developing competence and clinical skills in the duties listed below, ensuring all information is clearly and objectively recorded according to practice policy.

Perform and record an ECG

Blood Pressure checks Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring

Capillary samples of blood glucose and haemoglobin

Assist with setting up of equipment and chaperoning for Women's Health Procedures

Application of basic dressings as directed by Practice Nurse

Maintain stock levels / emptying clinical waste in consulting rooms

Recording of specimens prior to dispatch by courier

Liaison with pathology departments within secondary care as required

Chaperoning for other clinicians as required

General administrative support and computer data entry

Obtaining venous blood samples

Conducting long term condition reviews

About us

LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire.

Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.

Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.

About the Practice/Department/Team

Lakeside Healthcare Corby operates over 3 sites and are rated as GOOD with CQC. We have a strong team ethos and believe that including those delivering the service in decisions are key to the best patient outcomes so actively engage with all parts of the surgery to achieve this.

We have created a supportive environment through clinical supervision, team and quality meetings and an open and honest working relationship across our team.

We continue to invest in the training and development of our nursing team and recognise the importance of personal as well as organisational development.

Employer details

Employer name

Lakeside Healthcare Group

Address

Cottingham Road

Corby

Northamptonshire

NN17 2UR

Employer's website

https://www.lakesidehealthcaregroup.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Lakeside Healthcare Group

Address

Cottingham Road

Corby

Northamptonshire

NN17 2UR

Employer's website

https://www.lakesidehealthcaregroup.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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