Health Care Assistant

LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest 'true' partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire. Joining our team presents an opportunity to be part of a large organisation that is changing the way primary care is delivered today.

Living and breathing our values at Lakeside Healthcare

Caring & Respect Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do. We strive to ensure we connect and respond to all needs with compassion, care and respect to improve the lives and wellbeing of the communities we serve.

Teamwork & Quality In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.

About the Practice/Department/Team

Lakeside Healthcare Corby operates over 3 sites and are rated as GOOD with CQC. We have a strong team ethos and believe that including those delivering the service in decisions are key to the best patient outcomes so actively engage with all parts of the surgery to achieve this.

We have created a supportive environment through clinical supervision, team and quality meetings and an open and honest working relationship across our team.

We continue to invest in the training and development of our nursing team and recognise the importance of personal as well as organisational development.

As a practice we like to undertake projects to improve both patient and staff experience and have recently signed up to the Green Impact Toolkit for Practices. We also enjoy supporting local and national charitable events and regular social events.

Job Introduction

We are looking for a Healthcare Assistant join our team providing general practice services including; simple dressings, NHS Health checks, ECGs, blood pressure checks, administering injections such as Flu and pneumonia, phlebotomy, long term condition reviews etc who will work full-time or part-time during our network core hours which are 8 am – 8 pm Monday to Friday and 9 am – 5 pm on a Saturday on a rota basis.

What you will do

Working under the supervision of the Lead Nurse and team members demonstrate developing competence and clinical skills in the duties listed below, ensuring all information is clearly and objectively recorded according to practice policy.

• Perform and record an ECG

• Blood Pressure checks / Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring

• Capillary samples of blood glucose and haemoglobin

• Assist with setting up of equipment and chaperoning for Women's Health Procedures

• Application of basic dressings as directed by Practice Nurse

• Maintain stock levels / emptying clinical waste in consulting rooms

• Recording of specimens prior to dispatch by courier

• Liaison with pathology departments within secondary care as required

• Chaperoning for other clinicians as required

• General administrative support and computer data entry

• Obtaining venous blood samples

• Conducting long term condition reviews

• Administering immunisations, vaccinations and injections

• Any other duties as deemed appropriate to meet the needs of the Practice in the future.

Essential Criteria

Behaviours

• Being self-motivated, proactive, and enthusiastic with a 'can do' problem solving approach

• Great attention to detail

• Being a team player - having the ability to support the team as and when required

• Having the ability to demonstrate care, compassion and empathy towards our patients care

• To be self-motivated and have the ability to prioritise tasks and organize workload with great time management

Systems

• Experience of using system one or similar system is desirable

Development

• Willingness to undertake further training to enhance the team and services we offer to our patients and self-development

What we offer you (Benefits)

• Generous holidays (additional long service entitlements)

• NHS pension and long service recognition

• NHS Discounts (Blue Light Card)

• Career opportunities

• Role specific training and ongoing development

• Great team environment

Interview process – candidate information

Please apply with a CV and a cover letter - Please upload your CV as a pdf and include your personal email address in your cover letter.

Our interview process will aim to meet you in person however some interviews may be carried out virtually. I

To help you shine and show your full potential, please make us aware of any changes you might need at any stage of your application. If you need an alternative way of applying for this role, support with understanding the role, any changes at interviews, or anything else, we encourage you to contact our central HR team. Details can be found on our website or you can message us through Indeed.

We encourage candidates to not delay their application as we retain the right to close the advert early should the volume of applications become very high.

Please ensure you have your Right to Work documentation available at interview We will require you to produce the original documentation prior to your start date.

Shortlisting

We anticipate that shortlisting will commence one week after the advert has closed and will advise of interview arrangements if successful, however this timeline is dependent on the number of applications.

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Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We value diversity and we're committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, and cultures and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to care for and support our patients and employees better. Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18 yrs. so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

Equal Opportunities

Lakeside Healthcare is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to ensuring that all our staff and job applicants are protected from unlawful discrimination. All employees and job applicants will be treated equally, fairly and with respect. We will endeavour, through appropriate training, to ensure that our hiring teams making selection and recruitment decisions that do not discriminate, whether consciously or unconsciously and follow recognised industry best practice.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £12.21 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Store discount

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 14/12/2025