Health Care Assistant - Wallasey, United Kingdom - St Georges Medical Centre

Description

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare assistant to join our well established and high performing team.Candidates should have primary care experience and be able to meet the majority of the responsibilities included in the job description.

Candidates should be willing to work in a developing role, be enthusiastic, empathetic, have flexibility in their approach and the ability to work as part of our friendly team. Candidates should be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and be keen to develop within an exciting and varied role within an innovative environment.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities include

Patienthealth checks and clinical reviews, including but not limited to:

New patient healthchecks

NHS health Checks

Well woman & WellMan checks

Geriatric reviews

INR testing(including housebound provisions)

Learning DisabilityChecks

Controlled Chronic Disease reviews

ECGrecording

Phlebotomy (including housebound provision)

Chaperoningduties

BPmonitoring including hypertension reviews and 24 hour BP

Urinalysis

B12and flu injections

Dressingof wounds including suture and clip removal

Weightmonitoring

Providelifestyle advice to patients making any necessary referrals within the practice

Helpingto raise awareness of health and well-being and how it can be promoted

Restocking/maintenanceof equipment

Restockingof clinical areas and consulting rooms including clearing

Processingand management of own laboratory samples

Fridgemonitoring and recording

Surgicalequipment and vaccine re-stocking and stock rotation

Preparingand maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patientcare interventions including assisting GP/Nurse during the performance of minoroperations, coil insertions and implants

Emergencyequipment and doctors box monitoring, calibration and ordering

About us

We have an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare assistant to join our well established and high performing team. We are a forward-thinking practice serving a patient population of 9,600 and are committed to putting patient care first. You will be working within an experienced and supportive team which includes 5 Partners, 4 Salaried GPs, 3 Practice Nurses 2 Healthcare Assistants and 1 phlebotomist.

Job responsibilities

Dutiesand responsibilities:

Patienthealth checks and clinical reviews, including but not limited to:

New patient healthchecks

NHS health Checks

Well woman & WellMan checks

Geriatric reviews

INR testing(including housebound provisions)

Learning DisabilityChecks

Controlled Chronic Disease Reviews

ECGrecording

Phlebotomy

Chaperoningduties

BPmonitoring including hypertension reviews and 24 hour BP

Urinalysis

B12and flu injections

EarSyringing

Dressingof wounds including suture and clip removal

Weightmonitoring

Providelifestyle advice to patients making any necessary referrals within the practice

Helpingto raise awareness of health and well-being and how it can be promoted

Ensuresharps bins are handled safely in line with practice policy label openingand closing

Restocking/maintenanceof equipment

Restockingof clinical areas and consulting rooms including clearing

Processingand management of own laboratory samples

Fridgemonitoring and recording

Surgicalequipment and vaccine re-stocking and stock rotation

Preparingand maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patientcare interventions including assisting GP/Nurse during the performance of minoroperations, coil insertions and implants

Assistingwith the collection of data on needs related to health and well-being (appropriatereadcoding including templates)

Ensurespecimens are labelled and bagged ready for collection with the necessarypaperwork completed

Emergencyequipment and doctors box (emerg meds) monitoring, calibration and ordering

Ensuresawareness of statutory and local clinical protection procedures, includingsystems of referral. Ability torecognise signs and symptoms of child and adult abuse.

Ableto recognise and manage anaphylaxis according to current UK guidelines.

Ableto perform Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation according to current UK guidelines.

Abilityto obtain and document informed consent (either verbal or written).

Reportingof significant events and where necessary, attend meeting

Administration support such as bowel screening / smear screening / review recalling where required

Driving license

Essential

Experience

Essential