JOB TITLE: HEALTHCARE ASSISTANT
REPORTS TO: Lead Nurse
Mondays: 9.00am until 8.00pm (1 hour break), Thursdays: 8am until 8.00pm (1.5 hours break), Friday 10am-6pm (1 hour break)
27.5 hours
Occasional sickness/annual leave cover as and when needed.
£13.00 PER HOUR
INTERVIEWS: TBC
Closing date Friday 14th August
Job summary:
Working under the direct supervision of the registered nurses and strictly in accordance with specific practice guidelines and protocols, the healthcare assistant will assist the practice clinical team in the provision and delivery of prescribed programmes of patient care.
Duties and responsibilities:
· Chronic disease health Checks
· Monitoring and recording patients’ vital signs, BP, Pulse,
· ECG recording
· Phlebotomy
· INR*
· Vaccinations and IM injections when trained
· Wound assessment and dressings
· Ear irrigation when trained
· Chaperoning duties
· Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs/nurses
· Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording
· Surgical equipment and vaccine re-stocking and stock rotation
· Clearing and re-stocking consulting rooms
· Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions, including assisting GPs during the performance of minor operations
· Assisting in the assessment and surveillance of patients’ health and well-being
· Undertaking specific clinical activities for named patients that have been delegated and taught specifically in relation to that individual
· 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
· Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
Confidentiality
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
- The above requirements for strict confidentiality continue even after leaving employment at the practice.
Health & Safety
The post-holder will support a full range of promotion and management their own and others’ health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
- Responsible for the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
- Participation in management and maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the practice, including provision, ordering, availability and ongoing correct usage by staff
- Correct hand hygiene
- Participation in audit, such as active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes
- Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that provision of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate.
- Safe management of sharps procedures including training, use, storage and disposal
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers
- Undertaking periodic infection control training
- Waste management including collection, handling, segregation, container management, storage and collection
- Knowledge of and compliance with Spillage control procedures
- Decontamination control procedures, and equipment maintenance
- Maintenance of sterile environments
This job description is not exclusive and may be varied from time to time with agreement of the post-holder
Essential qualifications:
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
- Qualified in Phlebotomy
- Experience in working with the general public
- Experience of HCA work
- Excellent Communication skills
- Ability to provide quality care
- Basic IT skills
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £13.00 per hour
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
