Healthcare Assistant

Job summary

Stanton Surgery are looking for a healthcare assistant (HCA) to join the practice in this vital patient-facing role offered on a 6 month fixed term contract. The role will be part-time for 24 hours a week, working Monday, Tuesday and Fridays, 8.00am - 4.30pm.

The role will offer you the opportunity to build on your experience, skills and competence, requiring you to work effectively within a multidisciplinary healthcare team.

Main duties of the job

• Carry out base-line observations such as pulse, oximetry, temperature, blood pressure and blood glucose levels, recording findings accurately.
• Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control.
• Ensure that all clinical rooms are adequately stocked and prepared for each session.
• Update patient health records.
• Safe management of sharps procedures.
• Waste management including collection, handling and storage.
• Communicate with patients, relatives, and carers including providing valuable health promotion and education.
• New patient health checks.

About us

We are a rural dispensing and training practice located in the village of Stanton, set in the beautiful Suffolk countryside close to Bury St Edmunds. We serve a stable population of approximately 5,200 patients.

We offer traditional general practice and we will be very supportive towards developing personal interests.

We have a team of three nurses, and work closely with our PCN colleagues who visit the surgery weekly, such as a social prescriber, mental health link worker, mental health practitioner and physiotherapist. We are part of Blackbourne PCN which consists of four rural practices. A diabetes specialist nurse also visits monthly and holds a clinic at the practice.

We have a low home visiting rate shared with all doctors and UCPs.

We have modern purpose built premises, which have recently been extended and provide a bright and airy setting in which to work.

We are forward thinking, and always looking for new ways to do things to ensure we provide the best possible care for our patients. Recently we installed a dispensing robot with a 24-hour medication collection point.

We are rated GOOD across all areas by CQC.