Healthcare Assistant - Physical Health

We have an exciting opportunity within the GP Care Group (GPCG). We seek Healthcare Assistant - Physical Health for our GPCG Extended Access Hub. As a member of the GPCG Extended Access Hub team, your primary aim will be to provide physical health checks to a defined group of patients at their workplaces in Tower Hamlets. The workplace Health Check will encompass assessments of smoking status, height/weight/BMI, alcohol risk status, blood pressure check, and type 2 diabetes risk score. If you are passionate about improving health outcomes and have the skills and experience required for this role, we would love to hear from you. This is a fixed term contract for an initial 12 months and you will be based in different sites in Tower Hamlets.,

• Assess individuals cardiovascular disease risk scores at workplaces.
• Communicate risk scores clearly, using every day, jargon-free language to ensure individuals understand their level of risk.
• Deliver very brief advice, brief advice, or extended brief interventions to support individual behaviour change.
• Frame risk messages in a way that motivates individuals to consider changes to reduce their risk.
• Allocate adequate time to deliver assessments, share, and discuss results with individuals.
• Provide individualised written information booklets that include full results, bespoke advice on identified risks, and self-referral information for behavioural interventions.
• Refer or signpost individuals to PCC, NHS, and community services, such as stop smoking services.
• Advise individuals at high risk to schedule follow-up appointments at their GP practice.
• Support Commissioners in evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of NHS Health Checks in Tower Hamlets.
  
  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.