PCN Health Care Assistant – West Leeds PCN
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PCN Health Care Assistant
Hillfoot Surgery
The closing date is 08 September 2024
Job summary
Please note this is not a Care Assistant role. It is a Health Care Assistant role and as such is clinical. Please do not apply if you do not have the relevant clinical skills
This is an exciting opportunity to join a mature and visionary Primary Care Network that already has a well established and highly skilled team of Primary Care Support Workers (Health Care Assistants).
Our current team of Primary Care Support Workers (PCSW) fulfil a wide range of essential duties critical to the continued operation of our organisation and we are constantly seeking to further develop our services to our practices. This involves upskilling and training our current PCSW team on a regular basis. Due to a member of staff leaving for a new role, we are looking for a new member to join the team. This is diverse and fulfilling work so if you are looking for a new challenge as an experienced HCA this could be the role for you
Main duties of the job
Our current highly skilled Primary Care Support workers undertake the following tasks:
- Phlebotomy
- Blood pressure checks
- ECG test (but not the reading and assessing of the results)
- Vaccinations (flu, B12, Covid) **
- NHS Health Checks
- Physical checks for patients with serious mental illness (SMI) and learning disabilities (LD)
- Dopplers
- Stocking measurements
- Diabetic foot checks
- Staple / sutures removal **
- Spirometry
- FeNo (respiratory) testing **
- Woundcare **
- Smoking cessation (planned) **
- Long term condition reviews
- Non clinical dementia reviews
** If you are not yet proficient in these we may be able to offer training
About us
West Leeds Primary Network provides enhanced clinical services to 6 GP practices in and around Pudsey (Hillfoot Surgery, The Gables Surgery, Mulberry Street Medical Practice, West Leeds Family Practice, Robin Lane Health & Wellbeing Centre and Manor Park Surgery). We have a combined patient list of around 70000 patients and we also have a well developed workforce covering multiple clinical disciplines. This role would be based out of Manor House in Pudsey but the varied nature of the role means that you will also undertake clinics on site at any of our practices as well as performing domiciliary work in our community. See the uploaded job specification document for full details as well as our website
West Leeds Primary Care Network (westleedspcn.co.uk)
