Health care AssistantNHS

Job summary

Staff are Prospect Medical Group are dedicated to providing excellent patient-centred care and working with our diverse community.

The role will include long-term condition management, sample taking, assisting in smear, minor injury clinics, extended access clinics.

We are looking for a highly capable, enthusiastic, and motivated person. The successful candidate will also be confident, have excellent organisational skills, and be able to self-manage.

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK or ILR. we do not offer sponsorship any applicants not meeting this criteria will not be offered the role.

Main duties of the job

To provide the full range of the HCA role within Primary care and support to other professionals and to patients of the practice including treatment, screening, chronic disease management and advice within the professional competence of the post holder. Support and work effectively within the clinical team.

All duties will be carried out in accordance with the standard of a HCA and with regard to the various practice protocols. The candidate will within of a nursing team responsible for ensuring that the practice provides an excellent level of service of nursing care relevant to the practice population.

Job description

Patient care

Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised nursing care needs as identified, or where care has been transferred by a GP. This will usually be in surgery but occasional home visits will also be required.

Have responsibility for individual patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporate the issues and recommendations made.

Initiating and maintaining health screening and promotion clinics for identified areas of the practice population, recognizing where modification of systems or referral is necessary.

Managing the nursing care of patients with chronic disease, employing personal recall systems suitable to the practice needs. This includes using the practice computer systems for input of information for recall and screening purposes.

Undertake general nursing examinations and treatments for patients healthcare needs such as wound care, sutures removal, electrocardiogram (ECGs), Cytology, Ear Care.

Maintaining efficient liaison with all areas of the Primary Care Team and other agencies to assure continuity of care where necessary.

Health Promotion

Undertake basic assessment of the needs of patients including men and womens health screening and education. Coordinate the development of plans to meet the health needs of patients including diagnostic tests, treatment plans, health promotion and prevention.

Provide smears following current guidelines and manage follow up system.

Administer depoprovera injections following current guidelines

Be able to assess critically and re-evaluate the clinical situation as the patients condition or needs change.

Team work

Assist in clinical audit and the setting up and monitoring of standards of care.

Assist and teach others in clinical setting, including unqualified staff

Work effectively in the team.

Information and IT

Facilitate good communication systems within the practice with the use of computerised messages.

Extrapolate information received by outside agencies and bring to the notice of all clinicians wherever necessary.

Undertake all training and attend any computer data input and retrieval meetings deemed necessary by the Practice Manager to manage the clinical system effectively.

Personal Development

Attend relevant training updates as required to maintain clinical effectiveness

Maintain continuous professional development records in keeping with the requirement of NMC.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full list of duties.

About us

Prospect Medical Group is a long established, friendly and forward-thinking GP practice in the west end of Newcastle Upon Tyne based in modern single site premises. We have 6 GP partners who employ 2 salaried GPs, 2 Nurse Practitioners, 4 Practice Nurses, 3 Healthcare Assistants as well as a team of dedicated and supportive administrative staff. We currently have a patient list size of around 14,000. We are highly involved in our PCN (Inner West Newcastle) and through this we benefit from pharmacists, physiotherapists, psychology, paramedics, a nurse associate, mental health workers and social prescribers who work also work for the practice.

Our collective purpose is to provide the best care to our patients.

We use SystmOne clinical system.