Health Care Assistant

Lea Vale Medical Group are looking for a caring and motivated Healthcare Assistant to join our friendly primary care team. This role offers an excellent opportunity to make a real difference to patients lives while developing your skills in a supportive and forward-thinking environment. You will be part of a team that values collaboration, compassion, and continuous learning, helping to deliver high-quality care to our community.

We have an excellent nursing team of Practice Nurses, Nursing Associates and Healthcare Assistants and you will be joining a supportive and welcoming practice.

What We Can Offer:

• A supportive, friendly, and inclusive working environment
• Opportunities for professional development and training to help you progress in your career
• Regular supervision and access to guidance from experienced clinicians
• NHS Pension Scheme membership
• The chance to make a real difference in the health and wellbeing of our community

Salary - Equivalent to Agenda for Change Band 3 or 4 depending on experience

Main duties of the job

You will be assisting trained nurses and other health care professionals in the delivery of the highest standard of patient care, ensuring that this is sensitive to the needs of the patient.

You will manage your own clinics, delivering long term condition checks, dressings, blood tests, etc. both in practice and where required in patients homes

About us

We are a CQC outstanding rated practice who believes in delivering high quality primary care services through effective teamwork and constant learning.

We are looking for clinicians who share the same teamworking ethics to join our team.

We learn from the past but are always looking to the future. This is true for when we look for new staff as well, your skills and experience will be what make you suitable for this role, but we are more interested in your ideas for the future How you want to develop yourself and how that will improve our practice and the service we offer to our patients.

We work with people to understand what being safe means to them as well as with our partners on the best way to achieve this. We concentrate on improving people's lives while protecting their right to live in safety, free from bullying, harassment, abuse, discrimination, avoidable harm and neglect. We make sure we share concerns quickly and appropriately.

Job responsibilities

Patient Care

• Undertake routine diagnostic nursing tasks such as: ECGs, Blood Pressure checks, Blood Glucose monitoring, routine heights, weights and urinalysis
• Provide wound management for the patients under the guidance of registered nurses.
• Complete health assessments on newly registered patients and document simple medical history.
• Use patient contacts as opportunities to promote health education, including education on practice systems such as obtaining a blood result.
• Undertake NHS Health Checks, using the opportunity to promote health and well being
• Complete long term condition monitoring with appropriate training
• Act at all times with regard to the confidentiality and sensitivity of issues to do with patients, their care and treatment.
• Record and document all patient contact.

Governance

• Adhere to the nursing protocols in place, and contribute to Practice audits
• Participate in programmes of continuing professional development and training under the guidance of the Lead Nurse
• Attend clinical and team meetings and tutorials as required
• Undertake mandatory and statutory training

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Desirable

• NVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care
• Managing long term conditions training
• Phlebotomy certificate

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with the general public
• Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
• Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information Detailed knowledge and understanding of appropriate procedures and treatment plans

Desirable

• HCA experience in primary care

Basic Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work autonomously and as a team member
• Excellent communication skills
• Competent in venepuncture and recording clinical observations
• Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
• Ability to deal with non- routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
• Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues
• Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance and health and safety

Desirable

• Competent in wound care.
• Experience of SystmOne

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking

Work Location: In person