Healthcare Assistant/phlebotomist - Milborne Port, United Kingdom - Milborne Port Surgery
6 days ago
Description
Milborne Port Surgery is looking for a Health Care Assistant /Phlebotomist to join our fantastic practice team.We pride ourselves on being an exceptional Practice with highly appreciative patients.
Our priorities are great patient care, work-life balance and teamwork.
We are supporting numerous members of our team to gain additional professional qualifications and we host GP trainees so we have a good track record and expertise in providing education.
The surgery prides itself on our very high patient satisfaction scores and continuity of care. We maintain the best of traditional general practice, whilst adopting new approaches that complement these values.
We work as a team and maintain an open door policy where all staff have a voice and are able to access advice and support.
Our patients have made the following comments:
- "Excellent service, friendly, efficient, always tell people how lucky we are with our GP Service."
Informal visits are encouraged so please get in touch and we will find a suitable time for you to come and meet the team and see the surgery for yourself.
Main duties of the job
Involvement in our in-house educational and multidisciplinary team meetings will add to job satisfaction and contribute to good patient care.
Our salaried GP says:
"I can honestly say [joining Milborne Port Surgery] was the best work-related decision I've made. We have a wonderful team, who work well together and are supportive. I was made to feel welcome from the start and ever since."
About us
Milborne Port Surgery is located in a pretty rural village in South Somerset. It is close to the beautiful Abbey town of Sherborne. There are excellent local schools (state and independent) and easy transport connections to London and the beautiful Jurassic Coast.
The surgery is an exceptional practice with a lovely team, light, airy rooms, countryside views, and appreciative patients
Recent patient feedback:
Family & Family test Feedback 96% - very good / good.
We provide NHS services to 7250 patients with a well established team including 3 GP partners, 4 salaried GPs, 1 Paramedic Practitioner, 1 Practice Nurse, 1 Nursing Associate and 2 HCAs plus allied HCPs: Pharmacists, Musculoskeletal practitioner and Health Coaches.
We are an independent practice, and part of a Primary Care Network of like-minded rural practices, which grew out of a pre-existing collaboration to deliver transformed patient care as part of an innovative NHS Vanguard programme.
If you share our enthusiasm for the NHS, believe in the value of primary care and want to join a forward-thinking team committed to patient and staff wellbeing we would be delighted to hear from you.
Job description
Overview of responsibilities
- Establish and maintain communication with a range of people in a form that is appropriate to them and the situation.
- Perform a variety of clinical tasks for which you have appropriate training
- Record information and activities undertaken with patients and carers in an accurate and timely fashion using manual or computer systems and agreed clinical codes.
- Maintain stocks of clinical materials and equipment in consulting rooms
- Prepare and maintain environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions.
- Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others.
- Contribute to the improvement of services.
- Maintain quality in own work and encourage others to do the same.
- Support equality and value diversity, identifying when own or others behaviour undermines equality and diversity.
- Recognise and report situations where there might be a need for action to maintain a safe environment and report potential risks to patients, staff and the safe running of the practice in a timely manner.
- Preserve patient confidentiality and dignity, and treat patients with care and compassion.
- Undertake record and follow guidelines for the tasks for which you have received appropriate training.
- Measuring and recording:
- pulse rate and rhythm
- blood oxygen saturation
- temperature
- height and weight
- body mass index
- Record ECGs (electrocardiograms)
- Venipuncture (collecting blood samples from patients via insertion of a needle in a vein)
- Urinalysis
- Ensure clinical rooms are clean and well stocked.
- Give accurate and appropriate information to patients and groups within own competence.
- Plan, develop and implement ways of raising and promoting awareness of he
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