HCA (Bank)

Watling Street Practice; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare facility in Milton Keynes seeks a compassionate Healthcare Assistant to join their clinical team on a Bank basis. The ideal candidate will excel in communication, show empathy, and work effectively in a fast-paced environment. Responsibilities include conducting health checks, assisting GPs, and maintaining equipment. Salary ranges from £12.75 to £13.20 per hour, with additional benefits for holiday allowances. Own transport is required due to multiple locations.

Qualifications

• Experience working as a Healthcare Assistant in Primary Care is essential.
• Willingness to learn and commitment to providing high-quality patient care.
• Own transport required due to multiple practice locations.

Responsibilities

• Conduct new patient health checks.
• Record ECGs and manage laboratory samples.
• Maintain and sterilise surgical equipment.
• Assist GPs during minor operations.
• Monitor and record vaccine storage.
• Help with patient health assessments.
• Support health and well-being promotion.

Skills

Compassionate care

Excellent communication

Attention to detail

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Healthcare Assistant to join our clinical team on a Bank basis; someone with excellent communication skills, a strong sense of empathy, and the ability to work effectively in a fast paced environment.

The salary for this role is £12.75 - £13.20 per hour, depending on your skills and experience, plus an additional 12.07% to cover holiday allowances.

If you’re passionate about making a positive impact on patients' lives and are ready to contribute to a hardworking, collaborative clinical team, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You will work closely with our well established clinical team to help provide clinical care and manage acute demand, seeing patients with a variety of conditions.

About the Candidate

Attention to detail, a willingness to learn and a commitment to providing high quality patient care are essential in this role.

Our practice spans three sites across Milton Keynes, so the successful applicant will need their own transport.

About us

Our ethos is to treat patients as we would expect our family members to be treated. We are proud of our caring and supportive team approach and it is important that the successful applicant fits well within our team.

We pride ourselves on being a modern, forward thinking general practice whilst retaining traditional values.

As Watling Street Practice, our three sites are within Stony Stratford, Great Holm and Shenley Church End. We are part of the Watling Street Primary Care Network and have a community team including nurses, social prescribers and social work assistant supporting our patient populations.

We strive to provide high quality, readily accessible medical and preventative health care within a well organised, efficient, up-to-date, friendly and caring environment.

Job responsibilities

• New patient health checks
• ECG recording
• Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs/nurses
• Sterilising, cleansing and maintenance of surgical equipment
• Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording
• Surgical equipment and vaccine re-stocking and stock rotation
• Clearing and re-stocking consulting rooms
• Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions, including assisting GPs during the performance of minor operations
• Assisting in the assessment and surveillance of patients health and well-being
• Undertaking specific clinical activities for named patients that have been delegated and taught specifically in relation to that individual
• Helping to raise awareness of health and well-being and how it can be promoted
• Assisting with the collection and collation of data on needs related to health and well-being

Experience

• Experience working as an HCA in Primary Care

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£12.75 to £13.20 an hour plus an additional 12.07% to cover holiday allowances