Job responsibilities
Job Summary
The purpose of the role is to:
Assist the GPs and nursing team in the service and delivery of health care of the practice population.
The post holder will work under supervision of the nursing team and undertake tasks/duties delegated appropriately. The post holder will work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet patient needs.
Duties and Responsibilities:
To prepare consulting rooms and maintain stocks of examination instruments and specimen collection materials
- To maintain vaccine stock levels and stock rotation as agreed with the practice nurses
- To maintain and order drugs, instruments and clinical supplies
- Phlebotomy
- To collect blood samples from patients as requested by Health care professionals, by means of venepuncture, skin puncture or other approved methods. Requests for blood will be for a large variety of routine and special tests, and must be collected into the appropriate tubes.
- To ensure that patient identification details are checked on every patient before the venepuncture procedure is performed.
- To ensure correct labelling of sample tubes with patient details and the correlation of request forms with samples.
- To run Anticoagulation Clinics
- Appropriate dressing changes
- To correctly store instruments
- To take and record blood pressures using templates as requested by the doctors and nurses
- To perform ECGs as required
- Patient care duties including blood pressures, ECGs, new patient screening, stitch removal, 24hr BP fit/download, smoking cessation, ear syringe, NHS health checks, flu, well person checks and h pylori tests.
- Assisting with minor operations clinics
- To test urine specimens using appropriate equipment and record as requested
- To perform other clinical tasks as trained and agreed to meet the needs of the practice
- To perform any other task within the skills of the post holder
General:
Maintain any required registrations and certifications necessary to fulfil your role.
To promote a professional approach at all times by dress and attitude to patients and staff, both in and out of the Practice, setting an example for those under your direct authority and to the team as a whole.
To maintain you own continuous CPD and insure a PDP is kept up to date in line with the practice and nursing team development plans.
To participate in and attend practice meetings and in-house training.
Equality and Diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
Health & Safety:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting potential risks identified
Confidentiality:
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
