Healthcare Assistant

2 months ago

Rotherham, Rotherham, United Kingdom Connect Healthcare Rotherham CIC Full time

About Connect Healthcare Rotherham CIC

Connect Healthcare Rotherham CIC is a leading provider of extended access primary care services in Rotherham, offering evening and weekend appointments to patients out of core hours. Our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality healthcare services, and we are seeking a skilled Healthcare Assistant to join our team.

Job Summary

The Healthcare Assistant will play a vital role in delivering routine healthcare provision to Rotherham's general practice patients. Working collaboratively with our team, the successful candidate will be responsible for assisting nurses in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating programs to promote health and well-being. This will include identifying appropriate care and treatment plans for patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, as well as providing support to patients in adopting health promotion strategies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Assist nurses in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating programs to promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being.
  • Assist in helping to identify appropriate care and treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition.
  • Know how to act appropriately in emergency situations and in the deteriorating patient.
  • Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care.
  • Deliver opportunistic health promotion.
  • Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily, and encourage principles of self-care.
  • Care for patients presenting with uncomplicated wounds that have been assessed initially by an RGN and have a care plan to follow.
  • Venepuncture and sample taking.
  • Urinalysis.
  • Ear Care (dependent on training).
  • Setting up equipment for procedures.
  • Decontamination and infection control measures.
  • Blood Pressure, pulse, and other observations as necessary.
  • Height and Weight and checking of BMI.

Person Specification

  • Mandatory training completed annually.
  • Evidenced qualifications in skills and updates and evidence provided of care certificate/NVQs or equivalent.
  • Awareness of the needs of patients with long-term conditions.
  • Aware of accountability of own role.
  • Knowledge of health promotion strategies.
  • Awareness of clinical governance issues in primary care.
  • Knowledge of patient group directives and patient-specific directives and associated policy.
  • Basic IT skills.
  • Use of clinical systems.

Desirable Qualifications and Skills

  • Ability to identify determinants on health in the local area.
  • Knowledge of public health issues in the local area.
  • Awareness of local and national health policy.
  • Awareness of issues within the wider health economy.
  • SystmOne.
  • Emis.

Working with Us

We are a dynamic and forward-thinking organization, committed to delivering high-quality healthcare services to our patients. If you are a motivated and skilled Healthcare Assistant looking for a new challenge, we would love to hear from you.

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