About the Role

Botesdale Health Centre are looking for a professional, conscientious and highly effective Healthcare Assistant (HCA) to join our friendly team on a part-time basis for 15 hours per week. This will be split over 3 mornings - Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Potentially more hours available in the long term.

The primary focus of the role is to work as part of the nursing team and also as part of the wider practice team, providing high quality and timely care to registered patients of Botesdale Health Centre. The post holder will be responsible for the treatment of patients within their level of competence supported by agreed protocols and agreement of the Partners.

Main responsibilities will include;

Undertake phlebotomy for both venous and INR patient testing
Blood pressure/weight/height/BMI checks
Wound dressings and suture and clip removals
Urine testing and analysis and submit samples to the laboratory following the practice protocol
Obtaining specimens, ensuring their maintenance under correct conditions and dispatch to the appropriate agency
Perform ECGs
Promotion of health and wellbeing to individual patients by carrying out health checks and new patient checks
Make appropriate referral to GPs and other health & social care professionals
Assist with development of health promotion activities
24 hour BP monitoring and assisting patients with equipment queries for the ABPM
Provides clinical support to registered nurses and other healthcare professionals
Work with all members of the clinical and non-clinical teams to achieve practice goals e.g. call and recall programmes/QOF for Long Term Condition Management
Work with health care professionals within the PCN and other outside agencies as appropriate to achieve quality patient care and support health inequalities and PCN projects
Fully document all clinical and appropriate information within patients computer records from both face to face and telephone consultations and all other appropriate instances together with appropriate read coding
Support health promotion and prevention activities, including smoking cessation, weight management, and lifestyle interventions
Assist the practice with vaccination and immunisation programmes
Any other procedures deemed reasonable within the scope of personal skills and within the post

For further information, please see the job description attached.

About the Candidate

To be considered for this position, you will require the following experience and qualifications:

Successful completion of the Care Certificate, orequivalent
Experience of working within a GP practice

Essential knowledge, skills and experience:

Strong clinical skills including venepuncture/phlebotomy
Excellent patient-facing communication and interpersonal skills
Confidential manner with a compassionate and respectful approach, placing a high value on the dignity of patients, relatives, carers and colleagues
Ability to work independently, determining own workload priorities, as well as working as part of a multi-disciplinary team

About Us

We are a rural GMS 10,000 patient surgery with 4 Partners, 5 salaried GPs and a fantastic clinical and practice team with an on-site dispensary.

We are located in a modern, recently extended surgery with community nurses located on site as well as an X-ray suite and glorious surrounding countryside.

For more information please contact Donna Szukalski – Operations Manager – [email protected]

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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