Healthcare Assistant (Primary Care)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and Key Result Areas

1. Maintain the strict confidentiality of patient and practice information.

2. Prepare consulting rooms and treatment rooms and maintain stock of examination instruments and specimen collection material. Ensure that consumables are in date in consulting rooms. Dispose of clinical waste.

3. Ensure adequate couch rolls available in each consultation room and change disposable pillow cases.

4. On receipt of new stock, store away according to policy and ensure that stock is rotated. Maintain stock levels according to Stock Control Policy.

5. Record and reset vaccine refrigerator temperatures daily.

6. Take and record blood pressures according to protocol. Also record smoking status, heights and weights of these patients.

7. Preparation of forms and other documents associated with patient services and ensuring that patients understand what is required of them.

8. Perform phlebotomy including glucose tolerance tests for patients and complete paperwork relating to these specimens and record in patient record.

9. Fitting/removing 24hr BP monitors.

10. Under supervision by a qualified nurse calibrate the coagucheck machine as per practice protocol before each anticoagulation clinic. Obtain a sample of blood from the patients finger and document the results in the yellow book.

11. Perform electrocardiography according to the practice protocol.

12. Undertake new patient and NHS Health Checks according to practice policy.

13. Undertake Diabetic annual review checks in line with practice protocol.

14. Act as Chaperone when required by clinician.

15. Assist in the ophthalmology clinic.

16. Inputting, updating and extracting patient data from the practice computer system.

17. Assist with audits as required.

18. Attendance at training sessions and team meetings as required for professional development.

19. Dispose of clinical waste and sharps according to practice policy.

20. Housekeeping functions as per the protocol to include: Change all pillowcases, wipe down the whole of three Hyfrecators, clean the weighing scales, clean the ECG machine, clean the medical gas equipment and wipe down the inside of the BP Monitor cuffs.

21. Vaccine/Cold chain storage, monitoring and recording.

22. Any other clinical task as trained and agreed to meet the needs of the practice.

23. Urinalysis

24. General observations, BM monitoring, pulse and o2 sats

25. Baby weighing

26. Dermatology photographs

27. Assist in coil fitting clinics

28. Assist in minor op clinics

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified to NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care
• GCSE Grade A to C in English and Maths
• Care Certificate

Desirable

• Qualified in Phlebotomy
• Qualified to NVQ Level 3

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

New Hayesbank Surgery

Address

Bybrook

Kennington

Ashford

TN24 9JZ

Employer's website

https://www.hayesbankmedical.com/ (Opens in a new tab)