Health Care Assistant

Job description

Job responsibilities

MAIN ROLE AND PURPOSE OF THE POST

The Health Care Assistant will:

Be a member of the clinical team.

Provide phlebotomy, in accordance with current guidelines and local protocols.

Perform New Patient Health Checks, in accordance with local protocols.

Refer patients to other clinicians as necessary

Provide routine clinical care to patients according to locally approved protocols, under supervision of the Nurse Practitioner.

Work across multiple sites managed and operated by The Whalebridge Group.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Understand the principles of healthy living and provide relevant health promotion literature to patients.

Assist clinicians in the emergency management of patients.

Collect patient data such as blood pressure, height, weight and ECG in accordance with practice protocols and your competence to operate the necessary equipment.

Record data on patient electronic records in an accurate and timely manner.

Summarise patient notes and provide administrative assistance to the nursing team.

Provide smoking cessation support to patients in accordance with your training and practice protocols.

Run Blood Pressure and Cardiac Clinics.

Prepare the consulting and treatment rooms for effective consultation, maintaining stocks of examination instruments, stores and specimen collection materials, and ensuring couches and work benches/drawers are kept clean.

Maintain the system for monitoring and ordering clinical supplies.

Ensure that all specimens taken by clinicians, or brought in by patients, are ready for collection by pathology service.

Assist in maintaining safe storage of drugs and vaccines under the direction of the Nurse Practitioner.

Ensure that you comply with infection control guidelines.

Maintain patient privacy and dignity at all times, respecting patients rights, and preferences, and adopt a non-judgemental manner when interacting with patients.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Maths & English GCSE grade C or above.
• Trained in Phlebotomy.
• Have worked with members of the public in a face to face situation.
• Understand the concept of infection control.
• Good communication skills.
• Work well as part of a team.
• Basic keyboard skills.
• Competent in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel).
• Demonstrate a commitment to continued personal development.
• Able to manage own workload with limited direct supervision.

Desirable

• Trained in smoking cessation.
• NVQ 2 in health.
• Care Certificate.
• Have worked in a health care environment.
• Experience of any clinical I.T. systems.

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

The Whalebridge Practice

Address

Swindon Nhs Health Centre

1 Islington Street

Swindon

SN1 2DQ

Employer's website

https://www.sparcells-surgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)