Health Care Assistant

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) to join our dedicated team, in providing quality care to a diverse population which involves patients mainly on the Severe Mental Illness (SMI) Register. The post holder will have lots of development opportunities working with this excellent service by having access to all HCA updates/courses provided by CPEN (GP Care Group education provider). The employment of HCAs working across the secondary care-primary care interface will enable much better links along the care pathway and allow direct communication between HCAs in primary care and secondary care.,

• To provide an Integrated Multi-professional service for people with serious enduring mental health problems in relation to their physical health checks and interventions.
• To work with the Teams to ensure that all contract and performance targets are met.
• To review the annual physical health checks are completed for clients on the SMI list
• To contribute to the use of monitoring templates, effective monthly reports and promotion of technology systems within the team that will enable the collation data for monthly reporting.
• The post holder will be required to use EMIS systems to perform investigations and enter health data on patients attending the CMHT (Community Mental Health Team).
• To ensure that all Trust Policies and Procedures such as incident reporting, clinical risk management, complaints, etc are adhered to.
• To take all possible precautions to safeguard the welfare and safety of staff, service users, visitors and the public, by implementing all policies related to health, safety, security and risk.
• To form key relationships with both secondary and primary care partners (GPs, surgeries) as required
  
  Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/ The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services. Click here to know more about Tower Hamlets Together partnership- https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/ The key priorities for the Care Group are:
• Innovation and support for primary care
• Being a great place to work
• Integrating primary and community care
• Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
• Influencing improvements in health outcomes