Health Care Assistant

We are looking for an enthusiastic motivated Health Care Assistant to join our friendly and supportive team. Brookvale Practice is a well-established, high achieving, training practice with a current list size of 8,900 patients. Our clinical team consists of 9 GP’s, 1 Advanced Nurse Practitioner, 2 Practice Nurses, 1 Trainee Nurse Associate, and a Clinical Pharmacist.

The practice is based in a large, purpose-built Health Centre.

Applicants must be able to work as part of a team as well as under their own initiative to support the practice team in the delivery of clinical and administrative services and have excellent organisational and communication skills. We fully support and encourage training and professional development.

We use Emis, Docman, and AccuRX

Hours are negotiable within the practice opening times of 7am to 6.30pm but will include one late clinic per week until 6.30pm.

Salary will be dependent on experience and skills.

**BROOKVALE PRACTICE**
**JOB DESCRIPTION - HEALTH CARE ASSISTANT**

**Reports to**: Nurse Clinician (clinically)
Practice Manager (administratively)

**Hours**: TBC

Job Summary - Working under the direct supervision of the Nurse Clinician and strictly in accordance with specific Practice guideline and protocols, the healthcare assistant will assist the Practice clinical team in the provision and delivery of prescribed programmes of patient care.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- **Clinical **_**-**
- New patient health checks
- ECG’s
- 24 hour ambulatory monitoring
- Blood pressure checks
- Phlebotomy
- Chlamydia tests
- Urine / specimens
- BM’s
- Health checks/wellman/woman (no physical examinations)
- Health Trainers/ Wellbeing referrals
- Influenza vaccination
- Chaperoning duties
- Measuring and weighing infants
- Assisting in the assessment and surveillance of patients’ health and well
- being
- Undertaking specific clinic activities for named patients that have been delegated and taught specifically in relation to that individual
- Helping to raise awareness of health and well-being and how it can be promoted.
- Home visits
- **Non-clinical -**_
- Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording
- Vaccine re-stocking
- Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions
- Ensuring regular and appropriate inspection, calibration and maintenance of equipment used i.e: ECG, Spirometry and Coagucheck devices.

**Confidentiality**:

- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters.

They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post
- holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

**Health & Safety**:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others’ health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting potential risks identified.

**Equality and Diversity**:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

- Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non
- judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

**Personal/Professional Development**:
The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the
Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

- Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own