Health Care Assistant

Job description

Job responsibilities

RESPONSIBLE TO

Practice Manager Clinically to the Senior Nurse.

To assist the medical personnel with the care of patients. This will include treatment, preventative care, screening and patient education. The post will also include some administrative duties.

GENERAL

As part of the nursing team the HCA will be employed to undertake nursing and administrative duties as deemed suitable by the Partners. Full training will be given prior to any patient contact. The HCA will always work along side another member of the nursing team and there will always be a doctor available to refer to. The role involves the use of the computer and keyboard skills along with the ability to organise and prioritise a varied workload are necessary.

To maintain a safe and effective level of practice and to bring any deficits in training to the attention of the nurse manager so these can be addressed.

They will be required to act in a professional manner at all times and adhere to practice policies, protocols and guidelines.

1. Training

Training will initially be provided in house. Training requirements will be monitored by yearly appraisal. Personal development will be encouraged and supported by the practice. Its the individuals responsibility to remain up to date with recent developments.

Although accountable to the partners of the practice through the practice manager as an employee, they are ultimately responsible for their own practice and must ensure that limitations are always acknowledged. Full training will be provided for any clinical procedures.

3. Administration

All records need to be kept clearly and contemporaneously on the computer.

4. Meetings

It will be necessary to attend various Practice meetings as requested. The only reason for not attending will be annual, study or sick leave.

5. Liaison

As well as the nursing team, the nursing assistant will work closely with reception staff and will be expected to communicate and liaise with the all other members of the Practice team.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Nursing

• BP monitoring
• Urinalysis
• ECG measurement
• Phlebotomy
• Weight monitoring
• Chaperone patients as necessary
• Smoking cessation clinics
• Injections B12, flu etc
• Provide lifestyle advice to patients making any necessary referrals within the Practice
• Foot assessments
• Health Promotion
• Learning disability reviews

• Restocking/maintenance of equipment
• Restocking of clinical areas and consulting rooms

Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team

• Ensure accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients notes
• Ensure the clinical computer system is kept up to date with accurate details recorded
• Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice
• Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports
• Attend and participate in practice meetings as require.
• Restocking and maintenance of clinical areas and consulting rooms
• To assist in seasonal and special projects as requested e.g. flu campaign

• Ordering and rotation of CSSD equipment.
• Cleaning and sterilisation of equipment and associated record keeping.
• Ordering of pathology stores equipment

3. Any other delegated duties considered appropriate to the post

• Support Infection Control processes
• Water temperature checks (legionella)

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience delivering phlebotomy services
• Confident utilising PCs for record keeping/ emails/ internal communications
• Experience applying and adhering to confidentiality principles
• High level of verbal and written English
• Able to work in an inclusive and non-discriminatory way
• Willing to learn new skills and undertake training to support role and personal development

Desirable

• Experience working in a GP surgery as a HCA
• Skills/ experience with regards to the job description
• NVQ/ BTEC in Health and Social Care or similar
• Knowledge of GP services working processes and workload
• Knowledge of local health services and organisations

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

Ardingly Court Surgery

Address

Ardingly Court Surgery

1 Ardingly Street

Brighton

BN21SS

Employer's website

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