Health Care Assistant

5 months ago

Whitchurch, United Kingdom Churchmere Medical Group Full time

**Healthcare Assistant - Churchmere Medical Group**

This is a permanent post (either full or part-time depending on your preference) and you must be willing to work both in Ellesmere and Whitchurch. You will also take a fair share of evening and Saturday morning shifts.

Starting salary: £10.56/hour

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**JOB TITLE: HEALTHCARE ASSISTANT**
**RESPONSIBLE TO: LEAD NURSE**

**Job Summary**:
To support the practice nursing team in the delivery of nursing services, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population. The healthcare assistant will deliver and assist clinical staff in the provision of treatment, preventative care, health promotion and patient education.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Phlebotomy
- Undertake new patient health checks
- Support the practice nurse with health promotion programmes
- Carry out baseline observations such as pulse oximetry, blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate, height, weight, BMI and record findings accurately
- Undertake wound care, dressings, removal of stitches/clips and other clinical tasks as required
- Support the practice nurse with the management of chronic disease clinics
- Act as a chaperone as required
- Carry out ECGs as requested
- Provide support during minor operations as required
- Spirometry
- Urinalysis
- Vaccinations and injections under PSDs
- Ear irrigation
- Ensure specimens/lab samples are processed, recorded and ready for onward transportation
- Ensure all clinical rooms are adequately cleaned, stocked and prepared for each session
- Ensure fridges are monitored with accurate recording and cleaned routinely in accordance with extant guidance
- 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
- Sterilising, cleansing and maintenance of medical equipment

**Confidentiality**:

- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

**Health & Safety**:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others’ health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting potential risks identified

**Equality and Diversity**:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

**Personal/Professional Development**:
The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

- Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

**Quality**:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making sugge

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