Healthcare Assistant

Job Introduction
As a Healthcare Assistant within HCRG Care Group, you’ll join a team who are focused on exceeding the needs of patients within our community of** Chester. **You will support the delivery of care to a range of complex patients which will include **meeting the clinical needs of patients, supporting busy clinics with rapid and professional care and managing your own blood and screening clinic. **You will be based at The Fountains Health Centre in Chester, with regular travel to Ellesmere Port, Blacon, Neston, Winsford and Northwich.

The work is varied and interesting. Striving to successfully provide healthcare can be both challenging and rewarding and our services are developing to meet the needs of the local population.

Main Responsibilities
Within this role, you will:

- Perform designated high quality nursing tasks for clients in the clinic environment and support medical and nursing staff as required. Performance of clinical skills will be dependent on the competence and confidence of the individual
- Report all matters pertinent to a clients’ condition and circumstances, including any changes, to relevant members of the Contraception & Sexual Health team
- Assist in specialist appointment clinic sessions as directed by qualified members of the team, for example IUD/IUS insertions, implant insertions and implant removals.
- Participate in asymptomatic screening clinics ensuring appropriate advice is given and advice is sort from colleagues as required. Refer patients to Nursing or doctor colleagues when required
- Undertake Microscopy, sharing results with appropriate colleagues and seeking advice when needed
- To ensure that health promotional materials are available within the Contraception & Sexual Health clinics
- Maintain stock levels and ensure stock rotation and stock checks are carried out
- Assist clients as required within the clinics maintaining their privacy and dignity at all times. Advising on the principles of a healthy lifestyle, advising on the promotion of health and prevention of ill health, particularly relating to their sexual health.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

This is an opportunity to put your care certificate, venipuncture and NVQ level 3 or equivalent/appropriate qualification/experience to great use. With strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.

In this role, you will need to be able drive and have access in your own car, allowing you to travel across our services in a timely manner.

About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Package Description
As part of our commitment to your lifelong learning we offer the care certificate to all our unregistered health care professionals. This is the start of your education and training with us and forms part of a robust induction programme giving you the fundamental evidence-based training to support you in your role with us.

The Care Certificate is an agreed set of standards that define the knowledge, skills and behaviours we expect of specific job roles in health and social care services.

Along with receiving the Care Certificate, you will also have access to exclusive reward and benefits including:

- £20,500-£22,000 (pro-rata) and group pension
- Part Time 17.5 hours per week (Monday-Saturday)
- We offer two shifts; 08:00-16:00 and 11:30-19:30 where you will be required to work a mixture of shift types
- **Flexible working** to provide you with that true work / life balance
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location.
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pat