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Job role: Health Care Assistant
Company name: NHS Jobs
Salary: A1985-22-1539
Job Reference: A1985-22-1539
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About the Job:
JOB DESCRIPTION
Post: Health Care Assistant
Responsible to: Clinical Partners and Nurses Admin – Practice Manager
Responsible for: Self
Fixed term contact for maternity cover 6-9 months. Up to 24 hours per week.
Main Purpose:
- Basic health care tasks under the supervision of the Practice Nurses and GPs as detailed below (after suitable training where necessary)
- Provide a courteous, high standard of service to patients
- Ensure a tidy work and patient environment
- Follow procedures and protocols as defined from time to time, especially Health and Safety, Clinical and Administrative as applicable
- Provide cover for absent colleagues and assist colleagues with work flows
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Venepuncture (phlebotomy)
- Well person checks
- Height & Weight
- Blood pressure
- Urine analysis
- Basic records
- Cleaning and sterilisation of instruments as applicable
- Stock control of disposable equipment
- Assist with minor surgery
- Application of basic dressings
- Chaperoning patients
- Monitoring, ordering and maintaining of vaccines in fridges
- Monitoring and recording of fridge temperatures
- General stock control in consulting rooms and ordering of replacement supplies
- Administering flu injections
- ECGs
- Near Patient Testing (INRs)
- Smoking Cessation stop smoking advice
- Metabolic Syndrome advice sessions
- Assisting with clinics as directed
- Ensuring all work is documented accurately in patient records
- Maintaining health promotion literature and materials
- Recording of adverse incidents and significant events
- Any other clinical duties that maybe reasonably expected from time to time and which are consistent with the responsibilities of the post following suitable training and supervision
- Simple wound care delivery
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