Botesdale Health Centre is looking for a professional, conscientious and highly effective healthcare assistant to join our friendly team, on a part time basis for 28.5 hours per week. Working as part of the nursing team and also as part of the wider practice team, the successful individual will be key in providing high quality and timely care to registered patients.
Main duties 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.
- Work with all members of the clinical and non-clinical teams to achieve practice goals e.g. call and recall programmes /QOF.
- Work with health care professionals and other outside agencies as appropriate to achieve quality patient care.
Please see attached the job description for further information.