Healthcare Assistant

Job summary

A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a healthcare assistant to join our friendly and dynamic team at Woolpit Health Centre. This is a part-time role of 30 hours per week, plus 1 in 8 Saturday mornings on a rota.

The post holder will work in a multidisciplinary team and be responsible for undertaking a wide range of clinical duties. The ability to work confidently and effectively in a varied, and sometimes challenging environment is essential.

Main duties of the job

• Work as part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision.
• Improve safety and quality of care at every opportunity.
• Contribute to the delivery of integrated care.
• Work with the MDT to ensure the delivery of healthcare assistant duties complements the existing workforce.
• Provide support and supervision to apprentices, and those on learning assignments/placements as required.
• Support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care.
• Develop relationships across the MDT to support integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care, and mental health.
• Perform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations, and pulse.
• After undertaking additional training, provide flu vaccinations, ECGs, venepuncture and other relevant clinical tasks as required in line with the competencies of the role.
• Communicate proactively and effectively with all MDT colleagues, attending and contributing to meetings as required.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient health records.
• Enhance own performance through continual professional development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service.

The postholder will have access to appropriate clinical supervision and an appropriate named individual in the practice to provide general advice and support on a day to day basis.

About us

We provide services to over 16,000 patients who live in a practice area of 75 square miles of rural West Suffolk, straddling the A14, between Thurston in the west, and Haughley in the east.

We pride ourselves in delivering high standards of care. We are holders of the Royal College of General Practitioners Practice Accreditation Award, a quality mark held by only 19 UK practices.

Our 5 GP partners and 7 non-partner GPs lead a multidisciplinary team including nurses, health care assistants, a practice based medicines management team, social prescriber, first contact physiotherapists and mental health practitioners - based in our purpose-built premises.

Benefits of working for Woolpit Health Centre include:

• Attractive rates of pay with annual pay review (not agenda for change)
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Voluntary overtime when available
• Regular one-to-ones and supervision to aid development and support good communication
• Plenty of training opportunities
• Membership of the NHS contributory pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Free uniform
• Option of NHS discount and Blue Light Card for retail/dining/holidays

• Family benefits including an adult dependents pension and children's pension

For more information/an informal conversation, please contact Andrea Pretty, Lead Nurse at: andrea.pretty@nhs.net, Tel: 01359 240298