Job summary
Join our fantastic Primary Care service at our vibrant and dynamic Church Lane Surgery. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated Healthcare Assistant to join our multi-skilled team, who are able to make professional decisions, providing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care.
Our mission is to provide patients in Braintree with high-quality, easy, and convenient access to a GP or nurse when they need it. Our core values and principles are:
- Patient-centric: putting patients at the heart of everything we do.
- Quality: providing the highest standard of care and treatment.
- Ethical: operating within an ethical framework through openness and transparency.
- Passionate: being passionate about enhancing caring for our patients.
- Teamwork: supporting and sharing with all members of our team and partners
Our service runs Monday to Friday, 7am to 6:30pm
Main duties of the job
Main responsibilities will
include:
Referrals to health trainers and other
community based services
Health and Well-being -Assess, plan, develop,
implement and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent
adverse effects on health and well-being
Minor Surgery - Assist GP in providing
minor-surgery sessions, coil fits and implant fittings
Chronic Disease management - Undertake
appropriate investigation, clinical observations and interventions following
agreed guidelines for patients with chronic diseases CHD, Diabetes and
Hypertension
Emergency Care - Prioritise health problems and
intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency
situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
Meet the needs of patients presenting for wound
care and use dressing formulary
Mental health, adult and child safeguarding . Recognise patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the
National Framework (NSF) for Mental Health. Raise relevant information with the
Doc of the Day (GP)
Recognise adult and child safeguarding
situations and act appropriately
Long Term Conditions - Delivery of specialist
clinics, evidence-based practice for patients with long-term conditions, management,
and preventative HCA interventions to all patients
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued as a Healthcare Assistant at HCRG Care Group, with our Church Lane Surgery, Braintree. You will receive access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary of £22,000 FTE, dependent on experience and access to our Group Pension
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location.
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
Essential
- Minimum of 1 yrs recent primary and / or community health care assistant experience
- Must hold a Care Certificate
- Knowledge of local and national promotion strategies, health policies and public health issues
- Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy
- Knowledge of clinical governance issues in primary care
- To develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- To work as a positive and supportive team member
- Knowledge of needs of patients with long-term conditions
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face
Desirable
- Knowledge of EMIS Web and Adastra Clinical Systems
- Good standard of general education
Other requirements:
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
- Currently residing in theUK,as we are unable to offer overseas sponsorship
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued as a Healthcare Assistant at HCRG Care Group, with our Church Lane Surgery, Braintree. You will receive access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary of £22,000 FTE, dependent on experience and access to our Group Pension
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location.
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
Essential
- Minimum of 1 yrs recent primary and / or community health care assistant experience
- Must hold a Care Certificate
- Knowledge of local and national promotion strategies, health policies and public health issues
- Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy
- Knowledge of clinical governance issues in primary care
- To develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- To work as a positive and supportive team member
- Knowledge of needs of patients with long-term conditions
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face
Desirable
- Knowledge of EMIS Web and Adastra Clinical Systems
- Good standard of general education
Other requirements:
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
- Currently residing in theUK,as we are unable to offer overseas sponsorship
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Desirable
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Desirable
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
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.
