Health Care AssistantNHS
Job summary
Are you looking for a career in healthcare? Glebe House Surgery has an opening for an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated Phlebotomist / Healthcare Assistant to join our supportive and established team. The post is 34 hours per week, working Monday to Friday, between 8am and 6.30pm.
The role will offer you the opportunity to build on your experience and development of working effectively within a multi-disciplinary healthcare team.
A Venepuncture/Phlebotomy qualification is essential.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a sufficient number of applications. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible, as once we have closed a vacancy you may be unable to submit your application.
Please see the full job description and person specification for more details.
Main duties of the job
The Healthcare Assistant will deliver and assist clinical staff in the provision of treatment, preventative care, health promotion and patient education whilst also supporting the administrative/nursing teams on an as-required basis. Duties will include and are not limited to venepuncture, baseline observations eg blood pressure, temperature, pulse, BMI, support nurses where required, patient health checks, chaperoning, ECG's.
Job description
The following are the core responsibilities of the Healthcare Assistant. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload, staffing levels and additional training.
- Undertake new patient health checks.
- Support the practice nurse with health promotion programmes.
- Carry out baseline observations such as pulse oximetry, blood pressure, temperature, and pulse rate, recording findings accurately.
- Facilitate routine home machine BP monitoring, advising patients accordingly.
- Undertake wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required and within trained competencies.
- Support the practice nurses with the management of chronic disease clinics.
- Carry out BMI checks as directed.
- Act as a chaperone as required.
- Undertake venepuncture, taking bloods.
- Administer flu & covid, within trained competencies and attend training update courses where required.
- Carry out ECGs as requested.
- Urinalysis
- Ensure specimens are recorded and ready for onward transportation.
- Doppler's
- Provide support during minor operations and medicals as required.
- Following agreed clinical protocols with referrals to the GP's
- Ensure all clinical rooms are adequately stocked, clean and tidy and prepared for each session, maintaining and cleaning equipment used by nurses & GP's.
- Ensure fridges are cleaned routinely in accordance with extant guidance, recording and monitoring of fridge temperatures.
- Ordering stock from suppliers when required, stock checks.
- Ensure clinical waste is removed from clinical areas and sharps bins replaced in accordance with the organisations IPC policy.
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.
- Partake in mandatory eLearning and face to face training.
About us
We are committed to providing high quality primary care services through an ethos of continuous learning and reflection, while ensuring all staff and patients are treated with dignity, honesty and respect.
We aim to be innovative and adaptable to the changing face of General Practice and to balance the needs of individual patients with those of the wider practice population.
We are dedicated to promoting the aims and values of our Primary Care Network and the wider NHS and strive to improve the health of our population and encourage self-care.
Safeguarding - Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We have a robust recruitment policy, and all our staff are vetted prior to appointment including being subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) & Right to Work checks. We also take up two satisfactory character references before the individual starts work. Staff are trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.