Health Care AssistantNHS
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Barnard Castle Surgery is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Healthcare Assistant to join our supportive and established team.
The post is 37.5 hours per week, working Monday to Friday.
Ideally you will have experience working in a Healthcare setting, with a Healthcare qualification level 3, or are working towards gaining the equivalent level or previous completion of the HCA Care Certificate and venepuncture /phlebotomy certification.
Main duties of the job
As a Healthcare Assistant in the practice, you 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, NHS Healthchecks, chaperoning, ECGs etc. You will support the Practice nursing team and other practice clinicians as required.
Job description
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,patient health checks including NHS health checks, chaperoning, ECG's.The HCA will also support the practice nurse team and clinicians where required.
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 practice IPC policy.
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate.
- Partake in mandatory eLearning and face to face training.
About us
We are a friendly rural GP dispensing and training practice with approximately 10,950 patients registered, situated in the market town of Barnard Castle.
The practice consists of 6 GP Partners, and 3 Salaried GP's, 3 Advanced Nurse Practitioners, practice nursing team including 4 Practice nurses, a nursing associate, health care assistant and phlebotomist supported by a friendly administration, reception and dispensing team, striving to provide the best possible healthcare for our patients.
We offer a range of clinics and services in the surgery. We are high QOF achievers, commit to providing Enhanced Services for our patients and support continual education and development opportunities.
We have a culture of openness and continuous learning and improvement.
We work in partnership with Durham Dales Health Federation (DDHF) and form part of Teesdale Primary Care Network, (PCN).
We have recently achieved the North East Better Health at Work Silver Award and are working towards the Gold Award.
As part of our employment process, you will be required to complete the appropriate level DBS check.
The company supports the principle of Equality and Diversity in employment wholeheartedly and opposes all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.