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Job role: Health Care Assistant
Company name: NHS Jobs
Salary: £12.31 to £12.70 per hour
Job Reference: A5149-25-0001
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About the Job:
Working Hours:
- 24 hours per week, ideally worked over three 8-hour days.
- Flexibility is preferred to support service delivery.
- The post-holder will be expected to contribute to Enhanced Access cover, which includes:
- Tuesday evenings (6:30pm – 8:00pm)
- Saturdays (9:00am – 4:00pm) This will be on a rota basis, not every week, and will apply for the duration of the Extended Access contract with the Primary Care Network (PCN).
Clinical responsibilities
- Perform New patient and NHS health checks
- ECG recording
- Phlebotomy
- Chaperoning duties
- Manage and prepare laboratory samples requested by GPs/nurses for transportation to the hospital for microbiology path lab reporting
- Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording in absence of nurses
- Equipment re-stocking and stock rotation in all consulting rooms and at KCH for family planning and minor surgery
- Prepare and maintain your own working environment and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions
- Assist GPs during the performance of minor operations and family planning clinics
- Assist in the assessment and surveillance of patients health and well-being
- Assisting with the collection and collation of data on needs related to health and well-being
- Undertake specific clinical activities for named patients that have been delegated to you, such as, Flu vaccinations and B12 injections
- Record blood pressure readings, alert a clinician to any that may be out of range
- Perform INR tests and record these via INR Star
- Infection control and prevention
- Regularly complete the NEQAS External Quality Control process for INR Star
Administrative and professional responsibilities
- Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team
- Input accurate and coded consultation details into the patient electronic health record
- Ensure all pop up QOF/QIS items are actioned accurately within Onetemplate reporting any problems to the Operational Manager
- Prepare and maintain statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports
- Attend and participate in practice meetings as required
- To create and send recall letters for clinics as appropriate via secure email/text messaging
- To assist in seasonal and special projects as requested
- Update annually all SOPs relevant to own role
- Complete all mandatory training applicable to own role
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