Health Care Assistant – Park and St Francis Surgery
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HEALTHCARE ASSISTANT VACANCY
Are you an experienced healthcare assistant looking for a new environment?
If so, this may be the role for you!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Healthcare Assistant to join our friendly and supportive GP Practice for 37.5 hours per week. We are looking for an experienced Health Care Assistant with experience of working within general practice for at least 1 year.
Working under the supervision of the clinical team, you would support the practice nursing and administrative teams in the delivery of clinical and administrative services, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population.
Job responsibilities will include:
• Undertaking phlebotomy and sending to the laboratory
• Accurately measuring blood pressure with manual or automatic machines
• Measuring temperature, pulse, peripheral oxygen levels, height, weight and BMI, and recording patients’ health status (smoking, alcohol and activity levels)
• Checking and sending urine samples to the laboratory as needed and reporting to the GP for review as needed.
• Removing sutures and clips, and undertaking wound management, as appropriate to training, experience and competency
• Administering injections and immunisations, including taking part in the surgeries annual flu vaccination programme
• Undertaking NHS Health Checks
• Assisting GPs in minor surgery, coil and implant clinics
• The management of clinical stock levels, including stocking clinical rooms and trolleys, rotation and ordering
• Taking responsibility, as a member of the nursing team, for checking fridge temperatures daily and weekly to ensure the cold chain is maintained, and for reporting any cold chain breaches.
• Attending and participating in nurse and practice meetings
• Ensuring all mandatory training is up to date.
About You
The ideal candidate will have minimum of 1 year experience within General Practice or Primary Care setting, be adaptable, highly motivated and relish a challenge. You will be part of a dynamic and innovative team who value teamwork, professional practice, mutual support and a friendly working environment. Healthcare certificate is essential, and knowledge of Emis Web system an advantage.
The post holder will work under the supervision of the Lead GP and Nurse to provide patient care.
We can offer you:
• 25 days annual leave + 8 public holidays
• Great Learning & Development opportunities
• Support of a highly skilled and knowledgeable team
• Company Pension Scheme
• Hourly rate based on previous experience.
About Us
We have a well-established friendly team of 7 GP Partners, salaried GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Triage Nurses Prescribing Pharmacist, Practice Nurses, HCA,
Have a main and branch site with all clinical and reception staff working over both. We are a teaching practice and have 3 GP trainees. Sessional Research practice and an active patient participation group with quarterly speaker meetings for our patients. Monthly education meetings are in place for all our clinical team from Consultation Specialists.
If you would like to know more about us please visit our practice website Park and St Francis Surgery ( parksurgery-hursleyrd.nhs.uk )
We were rated Good in CQC Park and St Francis Surgery - Care Quality Commission ( cqc.org.uk )
Please note that offers of employment are subject to receipt of satisfactory references and a DBS check.
Benefits:
• Company pension
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
Advert closes 18th November 2023
Interviews week commencing 20th November 2023.
You are welcome to contact us to come in for an informal chat by emailing and ask for Nurse Manager Mrs Emma Handford. hiowicb-his.ParkSurgery-Admin@nhs.net
