Band 3 Healthcare Assistant

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 369548**Salary**:

- £22,816 - £24,336- per annum (pro-rata for part time) *pay award pending**Job grade**:

- Other- Band 3**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Strategic Command - Defence Medical Services (DMS)**Type of role**:

- Medical**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Job share**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Northern Ireland Combined Practice Lisburn Medical Centre, The Thiepval Barracks, Lisburn, BT28 3NPAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.

Defence Primary Health Care (DPHC) are looking for a dynamic, organised, and efficient Band 3 Healthcare Assistant who will be working within our team at Northern Ireland Combined Practice Lisburn Medical Centre, The Thiepval Barrack.

This position offers 37.5 hours per week.

Does this sound like the role for you? If so, we would love to hear from you

**Job description**:
An important part of the service is clinical care including taking blood samples to be sent laboratory for testing, wound care, and health promotion. The Healthcare Assistant also supports the delivery of the service by providing some administrative support, such as ordering clinical supplies.

They will demonstrate safe care for patients within the medical facility (MF). They will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures.

The healthcare Assistant (HCA) will be expected to provide cross-cover when required at other MF locations (Aldergrove and Holywood) as part of the NI Combined Practice.

**Person specification**:
Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:

- Delivering a high standard of patient care as delegated by a registered practitioner, working within own competence and keeping up to date with relevant training highlighting any training needs or competency requirements to maintain role.
- Supporting resupply administration functions within practice, maintaining medical stores, ordering stock and resupplying clinical areas. Ensuring practice equipment competency’s and raise issues to the Practice Manager.
- Providing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised patient care as delegated prioritising own workload and ensuring effective time management strategies are embedded in own practice.
- Carrying out patient health checks, including health screening and measurements, and recording previous medical history, family history and current medications.
- Maintaining accurate and contemporaneous records to relevant professional standards/guidelines.

Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further details.

The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the Technical Skill and Behaviours shown in the Technical Skill and Behaviours sections below.

**Qualifications**:

- National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 3 Health and Social Care (or equivalent)**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- NHS Core - NHSC1 - Communication
- NHS Core - NHSC5 - Quality
- NHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB2 - Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB5 - Provision of Care

**Benefits**:

- NHS pension
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- Free Parking
- Access to Gym
- Dining Facilities
- Shop
- Reimbursement of Professional Fees, £330 towards CPD per training year
- Eligibility for Blue Light / Defence Discount Card

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishment