Healthcare Assistant

Botesdale Health Centre is looking for a professional, conscientious and highly effective healthcare assistant to join our friendly team, on a part time basis for 23 hours per week. Working as part of the nursing team and also as part of the wider practice team, the successful individual will be key in providing high quality and timely care to registered patients. If you are a qualified and experienced healthcare assistant looking for a fresh and exciting challenge, we would love to hear from you.,

• Undertake phlebotomy for both venous and INR patient testing.
• Blood pressure / weight / height / BMI checks.
• Wound dressings and suture and clip removals.
• Urine testing and analysis and submit samples to the laboratory following the practice protocol.
• Obtain specimens, ensuring their maintenance under correct conditions and dispatch to the appropriate agency.
• Perform ECGs.
• Promotion of health and wellbeing to individual patients by carrying out health checks and new patient checks.
• Make appropriate referral to GPs and other health & social care professionals.
• Assist with development of health promotion activities.
• 24 hour BP monitoring and assisting patients with equipment queries for the ABPM.
• Work with all members of the clinical and non-clinical teams to achieve practice goals call and recall programmes / QOF.
• Work with health care professionals and other outside agencies as appropriate to achieve quality patient care.
  
  Essential
• Experience of working within a GP practice.
• Strong clinical skills.
• Confidence and competence in all HCA duties required for the post.
• Experience within primary care or another healthcare setting.
• Excellent patient-facing communication and interpersonal skills.
• Consistently confidential manner, as well as a compassionate and respectful approach, placing a high value on the dignity of patients, relatives, carers and colleagues.
• Ability to work independently and determine own workload priorities, as well as working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
Qualifications Essential
• Successful completion of the Care Certificate, or willingness to undertake, as indicated by the CQC.
• Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care, or equivalent.
Desirable
• A qualification in phlebotomy / venepuncture.
  
  Botesdale Health Centreare a rural GMS 9900 patient surgery with 4 partners, 5 salaried GPs and a fantastic clinical and practice team with an on-site dispensary.
We are located in a modern, recently extended surgery with an x-ray suite and glorious surrounding countryside.