Health Care Assistant - Pudsey, United Kingdom - Hillfoot Surgery

Description

Job summary

Hillfoot Surgery is located in Pudsey and has a practice population of 10,000. Working under the direct supervisionof the Practice Nurses and strictly in accordance with specific Practiceguidelines and protocols, the Healthcare Assistant will assist the Practice clinical team in theprovision and delivery of prescribed programmes of patient care and delivery of long term conditions

Thepost is part time, 16 hours over 2 days.

Main duties of the job

Support GPs and Practice nurses in carrying long term condition reviews

ECG recording

Blood Pressure taking and recording

Urinalysis

Height & Weight recording

Phlebotomy

Spirometry

Dressings

Health promotion and signposting to services

B12, flu and pneumonia vaccinations.

Chaperoning duties

Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs/Nurses

Ordering and returning equipment from

Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording

Surgical equipment and vaccine re-stocking and stock rotation

Clearing and re-stocking consulting rooms

Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions including assisting GPs during the performance of minor operations

Assisting in the assessment and surveillance of patients health and well-being

Undertaking specific clinical 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

Assisting with the collection and collation of data on needs related to health and well-being

About us

Hillfoot Surgery isin Pudsey and is part of West Leeds PCN. We have a patient population of 10,000

There are 3 GPpartners and 1 non-clinical partner. In addition, there are 4 salaried GPs . We have 2 practice nurses and 2 HCAs and host several of the PCNservices. We are a training practice for both 4th year medicalstudents and GP registrars and have a strong ethos of training and development.

Job responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities of the HCA.. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:

Support GPs and Practice nurses in carrying long term condition reviews

ECG recording

Blood Pressure taking and recording

Urinalysis

Height & Weight recording

Phlebotomy

Spirometry

Dressings

Health promotion and signposting to services

B12, flu and pneumonia vaccinations.

Chaperoning duties

Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs/Nurses

Ordering and returning equipment from

Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording

Surgical equipment and vaccine re-stocking and stock rotation

Clearing and re-stocking consulting rooms

Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions including assisting GPs during the performance of minor operations

Assisting in the assessment and surveillance of patients health and well-being

Undertaking specific clinical 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

Assisting with the collection and collation of data on needs related to health and well-being

Qualifications

Essential