Health Care Assistant

6 months ago

Leiston, United Kingdom Leiston Surgery Full time

The Leiston Surgery

Main St, Leiston, Suffolk, IP16 4ES

Tel 01728 830 526

Dr Imran Qureshi

Dr Karen Blades

Dr Nicola Maggs

Dr Michael Barstow

**Job Description Health Care Assistant**

**JOB TITLE**: Health Care Assistant

**ORGANISATION**: The Leiston Surgery

**LOCATION**: The Leiston Surgery/Yoxford Surgery

Training will be provided to ensure competence in all of the Duties and Responsibilities detailed below.

**Summary of Main Duties**

Working under the indirect supervision of the Clinical Lead, and strictly in accordance with specific practice guidelines and protocols, the Health Care Assistant must support the practice nursing team in the delivery of 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.

The surgery operates at two locations and this post is required to work at both, and on occasion to move between the two sites during the working day. In addition to this, the practice has a number of patients who are housebound or live in care homes and the HCA may be required to visit these patients in the community to obtain blood samples or to take physiological measurements.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Check patient identification against GP request and confirm details with the patient
- Provide Phlebotomy in accordance to training and procedures
- Provide simple Wound care/Dressings in accordance to training and procedures
- Take physiological measurements from patients including blood pressure, pulse rate and rhythm, temperature, height and weight (body mass index), visual acuity, urinalysis and ECG
- Administer B12 injections flu and pneumonia vaccinations under Patient Specific Directions
- Recording and monitoring cold chain storage and reporting any abnormalities
- Undertake new patient health checks, peak-flow measurement, suture and clip removal and carry out other tasks for which you have received appropriate training
- Fit 24 hour BP machines as directed and in accordance with training and procedure
- Assist GPs undertaking minor surgery
- Prepare and maintain environments and equipment before, during and after patient interventions
- Clearing and restocking of consulting/treatment rooms, including timely order of stock items under your control
- Assist in raising awareness of health and well-being by participating in patient health promotion and screening initiatives
- Give accurate and appropriate information to patients within own competence
- Ensure that anomalies are reported to a senior member of the clinical team
- Notify the GP of any significant patient issues
- Ensure full and accurate recording in the patient’s computerised record
- Carry out administrative tasks for example, but not limited to, call and recall activities and stock takes as directed by senior members of the practice team
- Undertake specific clinical activities for named patients that have been delegated and taught specifically in relation to that individual.

Training will be provided to ensure competence in all of the Duties and Responsibilities detailed below.

**General Information**

**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 implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management their own and others’ health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, the practice Health & Safety Manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

- 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
- Actively reporting of health an

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