Enhanced Access Health Care Assistant

Location: Across all 9 hubs (Hereford, Ledbury, Leominster, Bromyard, Kington, Ross on Wye, Kingstone, Much birch, Weobley)
We are looking for enthusiastic, passionate individuals who strive to provide gold standard person centred care in an Enhanced Access clinics across Herefordshire.

Taurus Healthcare work across 9 hubs in Herefordshire (Hereford, Bromyard, Ledbury, Leominster, Kington, Ross on Wye, Kingstone, Much Birch and Weobley), the enhanced access clinics we run support PCNs offering their patients more appointments outside usual general practice hours (Monday Friday evening, Saturday/Sunday daytime clinics).

As a Health Care Assistant within Taurus Healthcare you will become a member of our friendly, approachable primary care team. Working along side Practice Nurses, Advance Clinical Practitioners and GPs to provide nursing care such as: phlebotomy, ECGs, simple wound care and chaperoning duties. Contracted hours and flexible 0 hour contracts are currently available.

Main duties of the job

Phlebotomy

ECGs

Taking and recording blood pressure

Chaperoning duties

Simple wound dressings

Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs/Nurses

Equipment checks

Clearing and re-stocking consulting rooms

Maintaining stock levels of Taurus stock items

Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions including assisting GPs during the performance of minor operations

Taurus Healthcare was established in 2012, as the provider arm of the GP Federation serving 185,000 patients in Herefordshire. Founded and owned by the partners of the entire Herefordshire Primary Care community, Taurus is focused on providing excellent out of hospital services for patients. Our ethos is to provide high quality and cost-effective health outcomes that are delivered as close as possible to the patients home, whilst ensuring that patients who do require in hospital services are seen as quickly and effectively as possible.

£14.81 to £17.09 an hour Depending on experience.