Job summary
- Helping tidy the patients home or room
- Taking the patients vital signs such as blood pressure and temperature
- Talking to patients and reassuring
- NHS health checks and new patient checks
- ECG recording
- Phlebotomy
- Spirometry and reversibility
- Assisting the Practice Nurse with annual reviews; hypertension, CHD, Stroke and Peripheral Arterial Disease.
- Undertake wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required under supervision of the Practice Nurse
- When trained, administer B12 injections and flu vaccinations
- Chaperoning duties
- Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs
- Vaccine/cold chain storage monitoring and recording of fridge temperatures.
- Clearing and re-stocking
- Undertaking specific clinical activities for named patients that have been delegated and taught specifically in relation to that individual
- Helping to raise awareness of health and well-being and how it can be promoted
- Assisting with the collection and collation of data on needs related to health and well-being
- Ensure clinical waste is removed from clinical areas and sharps bins replaced in accordance with the practice IPC policy
Main duties of the job
- Safe management of sharps procedures including training, use, storage and disposal
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
- Routine management of own team / team areas, and maintenance of work space standards
- Waste management including collection, handling, segregation, container management,
About us
TOTTENHAM HEALTH CENTRE HAS 4 GPS
SERVES LOW SOCIOECONOMIC PATIENT POPULATION
1 NURSE
I SUMMARISER
2 HCA
1 CARE COORDINATOR
1 ADMIN ASSISTANT
2 RECEPTIONISTS
1 PRACTICE MANAGER
VERY FRIENDLY TEAM AND PLEASANT ATMOSPHERE TO WORK WITH.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake new patient health checks
- Support the practice nurse with health promotion programmes
- Carry out baseline observations such as pulse oximetry, blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate, recording findings accurately
- Facilitate routine and 24-hour BP monitoring, advising patients accordingly
- Undertake wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required
- Support the practice nurse with the management of chronic disease clinics
- Carry out BMI checks as directed
- Act as a chaperone as required
- When trained, administer flu vaccinations
- Ensure specimens are recorded and ready for onward transportation
- Provide support during minor operations as required
- Ensure all clinical rooms are adequately stocked and prepared for each session
- Ensure fridges are cleaned routinely in accordance with extant guidance
- Ensure clinical waste is removed from clinical areas and sharps bins replaced in accordance with the practice IPC policy
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake new patient health checks
- Support the practice nurse with health promotion programmes
- Carry out baseline observations such as pulse oximetry, blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate, recording findings accurately
- Facilitate routine and 24-hour BP monitoring, advising patients accordingly
- Undertake wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required
- Support the practice nurse with the management of chronic disease clinics
- Carry out BMI checks as directed
- Act as a chaperone as required
- When trained, administer flu vaccinations
- Ensure specimens are recorded and ready for onward transportation
- Provide support during minor operations as required
- Ensure all clinical rooms are adequately stocked and prepared for each session
- Ensure fridges are cleaned routinely in accordance with extant guidance
- Ensure clinical waste is removed from clinical areas and sharps bins replaced in accordance with the practice IPC policy
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- the NCFE CACHE level 2 Certificate in Healthcare Support Services
- the NCFE CACHE level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support
- GCSE GRADE A TO C IN ENGLISH AND MATHS
Desirable
- Qualified in phlebotomy
- Qualified in NVQ level 3
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- To be a healthcare assistant, you'll need to be
- caring and kind
- cheerful and friendly
- willing to be hands-on with patients
- willing to do personal care tasks (washing, toileting, etc)
- able to follow instructions and procedures
- able to work in a team but use their own initiative
- You'll also need
- communication skills, including listening
- organisation skills
- observational skills
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience is essential
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working in GP practice
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- To be a healthcare assistant, you'll need to be
- caring and kind
- cheerful and friendly
- willing to be hands-on with patients
- willing to do personal care tasks (washing, toileting, etc)
- able to follow instructions and procedures
- able to work in a team but use their own initiative
- You'll also need
- communication skills, including listening
- organisation skills
- observational skills
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- the NCFE CACHE level 2 Certificate in Healthcare Support Services
- the NCFE CACHE level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support
- GCSE GRADE A TO C IN ENGLISH AND MATHS
Desirable
- Qualified in phlebotomy
- Qualified in NVQ level 3
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- To be a healthcare assistant, you'll need to be
- caring and kind
- cheerful and friendly
- willing to be hands-on with patients
- willing to do personal care tasks (washing, toileting, etc)
- able to follow instructions and procedures
- able to work in a team but use their own initiative
- You'll also need
- communication skills, including listening
- organisation skills
- observational skills
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience is essential
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working in GP practice
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- To be a healthcare assistant, you'll need to be
- caring and kind
- cheerful and friendly
- willing to be hands-on with patients
- willing to do personal care tasks (washing, toileting, etc)
- able to follow instructions and procedures
- able to work in a team but use their own initiative
- You'll also need
- communication skills, including listening
- organisation skills
- observational skills
Desirable
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.