Health Care Assistant - GP Practice

Job summary

Are you looking for a rewarding role within healthcare? Health Care Assistants are a crucial part of General Practice. The role allows you to make a positive impact on patients health.

The post is for between 27-30 hours per week, over 3 days.

The successful candidate will need to be able to work autonomously as well as being part of the wider nursing team. As most of your day is spent on a one to one basis with patients excellent communication skills are needed. The role requires the need to be open minded, tactful, keep sensitive information confidential, work within your remit, have excellent communication skills, a genuine desire to work with patients and improve their health outcomes, be reliable and have a caring and approachable nature.

Main duties of the job

Venepuncture

B12 injections

Flu vaccinations/Covid vaccinations

Zoladex injection

Chronic disease monitoring

BP checks

Annual reviews - Asthma, Cholesterol, CKD, COPD, Dementia, Diabetes, HF, Hypertension, Mental health, Weight management

NHS health checks

New patient checks

About us

Excel Primary Care is a large GP Practice with 4 Partners, covering 18000 patients, based over 3 sites in the area of Skelmersdale, West Lancashire.

We strive to provide high quality care for our patients and have a good working environment for our staff. We are currently rated as good by CQC, a rating we have consistently achieved for a number of years.