Healthcare Assistant - Sexual Health

We are seeking a full-time Health Care Assistant to join our team, to provide essential support to Clinical Staff, including Nurses and Doctors, as well as the wider multidisciplinary team. In this role, you will work closely with administration staff and managers to ensure the effective delivery of services to our patients and service users. The successful candidate will operate within their scope of ability, authority, and responsibility, contributing to the smooth running of a Teesside-wide service. As part of this role, you will travel across various locations within the Teesside area so access to a car and full UK driving licence will be required., We are looking for a skilled Health Care Assistant to provide frontline support in our integrated sexual health service. Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as the first point of contact for patients requiring asymptomatic screening, conducting tests such as phlebotomy, urinalysis, pregnancy testing, and STI self-testing instruction.
• Assisting in clinical procedures, including the collection and recording of specimens, and providing support during implant and IUCD fittings.
• Offering advice on safe sex practices, performing condom demonstrations, and ensuring all clients receive confidential, non-judgmental care.
• Assisting clinical staff with patient assessments, including blood pressure, height, weight, and BMI recording.
• Working within safeguarding frameworks, addressing concerns about child sexual exploitation, female genital mutilation, and domestic abuse, while following protocols.
• Engaging in chaperone duties, ensuring a positive experience for clients, and participating in regular clinical supervision.
  
  Phlebotomy qualification
• GCSEs (A-C) in English and Maths
• Strong ability to work collaboratively within a team
Desirable:
• NVQ Level 2 qualification in Health & Social Care
We are looking for someone who is compassionate, detail-oriented, and eager to contribute to a multidisciplinary team, supporting patients with care and professionalism.

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

You will feel valued as a Health Care Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
• Salary of £23,100 with group pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission