Now Hiring: Health Care Assistant in Buckingham (Visa Sponsorship Offered)

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Job role: Health Care Assistant

Company name: NHS Jobs

Salary: £12.57 to £13.25 per hour

Job Reference: A0325-25-0011

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About the Job: 

Job summary

The Swan Practice are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced Health Care Assistant at their busy NHS GP practice.

The successful applicant must have a good range of skills and be able to work on their own initiative. Good communicational skills are essential .

The Swan Practice use the Emis web computer system and provide high quality care for their patients.

The ideal candidate will already have worked as a Health Care Assistant in General Practice and hold the relevant qualifications and experience.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will already have worked as a Health Care Assistant in General Practice and hold the relevant qualifications and experience.

Main duties include:

  • Dressings and Wound care
  • ECGs
  • Phlebotomy
  • Spirometry
  • Health Checks
  • Chaperoning duties
  • Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GP/Nurses
  • Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording
  • New patient health checks
  • Clearing and re-stocking consulting rooms
  • Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions, including assisting GPs
  • Helping to raise awareness of health and well-being and how it can be promoted

Assisting with the collection and collation of data on needs related to health and well-being.

About us

The successful candidate will be part ofour nursing team which includes long term condition nurses, practices nurse, health care assistants and phlebotomists, all working across our three sites.

Swan Practice is one of the largest practices in Buckinghamshire and serves the historic market town of Buckingham and surrounding villages.

The Swan Practice is caring and progressive striving to provide the highest quality person-centred-care enabled by teamwork, learning and innovation

Job description

Job responsibilities

The main duties and responsibilities of our Health Care Assistant role are

  1. Phlebotomy
  2. Undertake ECG measurement
  3. Undertake dressings
  4. Carry out Dopplers and compression bandaging
  5. Removal of sutures
  6. Carry out BP checks and Hypertension checks
  7. Pill checks
  8. Chronic disease Care planning appointments to include foot checks
  9. Ambulatory blood pressure measurements
  10. Anti coag monitoring in surgery and home visits
  11. H Pylori testing
  12. Maintain accurate records and update all patient information as required, manually and by using the surgery computer as appropriate
  13. Ensure specimens are sent to laboratory
  14. Consulting rooms
  15. Purchase and room stocking of consulting room equipment
  16. Management of equipment (including forms)
  17. Clinical Waste and Infection control
  18. B12/ Pneumococcal/ Flu immunisation
  19. Assisting GPs with coil fits and implant
  20. Chaperoning
  21. NHS Health Checks
  22. Support training for staff learning venepuncture skills
  23. Attend training courses to develop skills appropriate to the requirement of the practice
  24. Be prepared to impart information to any trainee doctor or other healthcare professional about the system and protocols of any aspect of the work when required

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Experience of working as a Health Care Assistant in General Practice.
  • Hold the relevant qualifications

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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