Health Care Assistant
4 weeks ago
Readesmoor Medical Group Practice is looking to recruit experienced Health Care Assistants (HCA) to join our friendly practice team. Salary will be offered depending on experience. There is both full time and part time hours on offer.
At Readesmoor, you will be working alongside an experienced and diverse clinical team to include 5 GP Partners, Salaried GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Paramedics, Pharmacy Technicians and Practices Nurses with the support of Care Navigators and an administrative team.
Based in Congleton Cheshire, we have a strong reputation for our focus on quality improvement and investing in people. Our vision is to provide high quality primary care services by understanding the needs of local people and using the best of General Practice and innovation. We are passionate about making a difference to local healthcare and reducing health inequalities by putting patient-centred care at the heart of everything we do. Remuneration is highly competitive and negotiable based on experience and qualifications.
- GMS Practice with approx.14,000 patients
- CQC rated ‘Good’
- EMIS web
- Part of a forward thinking, supportive PCN with a well-established and rapidly growing clinical team
- Research practice and opportunity for outside clinical interests
- Patient Participation Group
**Main Purpose of Post**:
The post holder will offer general assistance to the Nursing Team and the General Practitioners. They will maintain patient confidentiality and work under the direct clinic supervision of the Practice Nurse and within Practice Guidelines and Protocols at all times
The Post holder is responsible for the delivery of basic care to the practice population, this will be delivered within the boundaries of their role, focusing upon supporting patient to be healthy, monitoring of long-term conditions, health prevention and screening activities.
The post holder will develop the required level of training and competence and will work within Patient Group Directions (PGD’s) as necessary.
**PERSONAL SPECIFICATION**
**Knowledge and Skills**
**Essential**
Understanding and knowledge of policy related to delivery of Primary Care, including Clinical Governance and Quality and Outcomes Framework
Understanding the health needs of Primary Care
Understanding of equal opportunity and diversity issues
Well-developed IT skills
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
Time management and ability to prioritise workload
**Desirable**
Experience of EMIS and ARDENS templates and searches
**EXPERIENCE**
**Essential**
Experience of working in a health care setting
Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity to maintain up to date knowledge and on-going competence
Evidence of working autonomously and as part of a team
**Desirable**
Experience of working with General Practice
**QUALIFICATIONS**
**Essential**
Healthcare qualification (or working towards)
ECG
Immunisation and Vaccination
Phlebotomy
**Desirable**
Wound Care
Chronic Disease Management reviews
The Health Care Assistant will deliver and assist clinical staff in the provision of treatment, preventative care, health promotion and patient education.
**DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK**
**JOB DESCRIPTION**
**Clinical Practice**:
To act in such a manner as to support the client/patient at all times and be mindful of the need to reduce anxiety for the client/patient
Implement and evaluate programs to promote health and well-being and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being
To provide phlebotomy service as required - providing a regular monitoring and screening service
To be responsible for the processing and management of laboratory samples requested by the Health Care Professionals (HCPs) - with specific responsibility to ensure that the samples are correctly labelled, sent to the laboratory promptly and that data is correctly entered in the patients records
Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition including regular recall monitoring
To be responsible for the correct maintenance and cleaning of clinical equipment
To be responsible for the re-stocking of all clinical areas and maintain a stock rotation system
To maintain/order an adequate amount of clinical supplies and health promotional materials as agreed by the Medical Staff and to restock all rooms as appropriate
To assist in general nursing duties, under the supervision of the nursing team eg Urinalysis, Cardiovascular Screening, New Patient Checks, Wound dressings, Blood Pressures, Patient Observations, Diabetic Foot Checks, ECGs, Peak Flow training, QOF recalls, screening, Minor Ops assistance etc.
To ensure that the drug/vaccination refrigerators are at the correct temperature on a daily basis and that the cold chain is maintained, recording as per the practice guidelines
To give vaccinations according to local policy and completion of relevant tr
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