Healthcare Assistant - Corby, United Kingdom - Lakeside Healthcare

Lakeside Healthcare

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Corby, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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About Lakeside

LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest 'true' partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire. Joining our team presents an opportunity to be part of a large organisation that is changing the way primary care is delivered today.

Living and breathing our values at Lakeside Healthcare

Caring & Respect:

Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.

We strive to ensure we connect and respond to all needs with compassion, care and respect to improve the lives and wellbeing of the communities we serve.

Teamwork & Quality:

In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.

About the Practice/Department/Team

Lakeside Healthcare Corby operates over 3 sites and are rated as GOOD with CQC. We have a strong team ethos and believe that including those delivering the service in decisions are key to the best patient outcomes so actively engage with all parts of the surgery to achieve this.

We have created a supportive environment through clinical supervision, team and quality meetings and an open and honest working relationship across our team.

We continue to invest in the training and development of our nursing team and recognise the importance of personal as well as organisational development.

As a practice we like to undertake projects to improve both patient and staff experience and have recently signed up to the Green Impact Toolkit for Practices.

We also enjoy supporting local and national charitable events and regular social events.

Job Introduction

We are looking for a Healthcare Assistant join our team providing general practice services including; simple dressings, NHS Health checks, ECGs, blood pressure checks, administering injections such as Flu and pneumonia, long term condition reviews etc who will work full-time or part-time during our network core hours which are 8 am - 8 pm Monday to Friday and 9 am - 5 pm on a Saturday on a rota basis.

What you will do

Working under the supervision of the Lead Nurse and team members demonstrate developing competence and clinical skills in the duties listed below, ensuring all information is clearly and objectively recorded according to practice policy.

Perform and record an ECG.
Blood Pressure checks / Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring.
Capillary samples of blood glucose and haemoglobin.
Assist with setting up of equipment and chaperoning for Women's Health Procedures.
Application of basic dressings as directed by Practice Nurse.
Maintain stock levels / emptying clinical waste in consulting rooms.
Recording of specimens prior to dispatch by courier.
Liaison with pathology departments within secondary care as required.
Chaperoning for other clinicians as required.
General administrative support and computer data entry.
Any other duties as deemed appropriate to meet the needs of the Practice in the future.

Essential Criteria

Behaviours

Being selfmotivated, proactive, and enthusiastic with a 'can do' problem solving approach.
Great attention to detail.
Being a team player having the ability to support the team as and when required.
Having the ability to demonstrate care, compassion and empathy towards our patients care.
To be selfmotivated and have the ability to prioritise tasks and organize workload with great time management.

Systems

Experience of using system one or similar system is desirable.

Development

Willingness to undertake further training to enhance the team and services we offer to our patients and selfdevelopment.

What we offer you (Benefits)

Generous holidays (additional long service entitlements).
NHS pension and long service recognition.
NHS Discounts (Blue Light Card).
Career opportunities.
Role specific training and ongoing development.
Great team environment.
Lakeside Healthcare is proud to be a Living Wage employer_

Interview process
Our interview process will aim to meet you in person however some interviews may be carried out virtually. If interviews are carried out at our GP practices, you will be required to wear a mask.

Please ensure you have your Right to Work documentation available at interview We will require you to produce the original documentation prior to your start date.

Shortlisting

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Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Equal Opportunities
Lakeside Healthcare is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to ensu