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Job role: Health Care Assistant
Company name: NHS Jobs
Salary: £23,615.00 per year
Job Reference: M0038-25-0453
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About the Job:
Southend West Central Primary Care Network has a fantastic opportunity for a healthcare assistant, on a full time basis, to work within their population health team, and assist the practice to support their PCN colleagues.
Working under the direct supervision of the population health practitioner, the post-holder will work within their own competencies and will be expected to conduct clinical aspects of NHS health checks.
Main duties of the job
- Conduct NHS health checks, new patient health checks and over 40 health checks.
- Conduct baseline observations such as pulse oximetry, blood pressure etc recording findings accurately.
- Conduct body mass index (BMI) checks.
- Help raise awareness of health and well-being and how it can be promoted, providing advice to patients.
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies and encourage principles of self-care.
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion and lifestyle advice.
- Support the practitioner with the management of chronic diseases in a community-based setting.
- Record and assess blood pressure and hypertension.
- Screen and signpost dementia.
- Give accurate and appropriate information to patients and groups within own competencies.
- Work to address health disparities within the community by advocating for equitable access to healthcare and public health resources.
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