Health Check Assistant

NHS; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A public health service provider in Lancashire is seeking Health Check Assistants to provide health checks and lifestyle advice across various locations. Candidates should have NVQ Level 3 or equivalent and experience in community settings. The role offers flexible hours, enhancing patient care and requires a commitment of at least two shifts per month.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Attendance Bonus

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

Qualifications

• Experience of working in GP Practice or community.
• Able to undertake clinical observations.
• Up to date with Mandatory Training including Safeguarding Level 3.

Responsibilities

• Undertake NHS health checks in community face to face with patients.
• Provide patient education and health promotion.
• Ensure all patient contact is recorded timely.

Skills

Ability to work as a team member

Good communication skills

Basic IT skills

Education

Good standard of general education

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Venepuncture

Job description

We are looking for forward thinking, motivated Health Check Assistants who have a passion for new ways of working whilst providing safepatient and effective care.

Job Type: Bank Staff hours flexible (annualleave/sickness cover 2 shifts per month minimum)

Operates: The service operates 7 days a week, working hours vary day to day

Pay: £12.45 perhour with enhancements for weekend and bank holidays

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work providing health checks andoffering lifestyle advise to patients across Lancashire. Observations includeSP02 levels, heights, weights pulse rates, BP checks, point of care testing forcholesterol and pre diabetic screening where appropriate. This information willbe inputted in real time to the EMIS IT system including calculation of theQRisk3 score.

Full training for point of care testing will be provided and othersystems where required.

Location of work

This role will consist of working in the following locations tomeet the service needs:

Burnley

Chorley

Preston

Fylde

Hyndburn

West Lancs

Pendle

About us

The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health andwellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure thatpatients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled withexcellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremelyeffective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the abilityto strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services.

Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we havea core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of ourpatients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the servicedelivery and user experience due to their considerable experience andcommitment to what they do.

Come and be a part of our amazing team!

• We offer NHS Pension
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Attendance Bonus
• Free Tea & Coffee
• Eye Care Contributions

Job responsibilities

Roleof the Service

As part ofour diagnostic business unit, we are working across various locations inLancashire to provide NHS Health Checks to eligible patients aged 40-74. Aspart of this check, patients have observations taken as well as Point of Caretesting for cholesterol and when appropriate HBA1c levels are checked. Forthose not eligible, patients are offered a mini health check for observations.All patients are given lifestyle advice and when appropriate signposted toother services. These health checks can take place in various locationsincluding on our mobile treatment unit, local community venues, shoppingcentres and workplaces.

Dutiesand Responsibilities

• To undertake NHS health checks in the community face to face with patients.
• To provide patient education and health promotion.
• Work to attain the service KPIs and targets.
• Ensure all patient contact is recorded in a timely manner on the IT systemsto enable tracking of patient outcomes, both in real-time to support ongoingintervention planning and retrospectively to understand the impact of theservice.
• To ensure mandatory training is kept up to date.
• Acknowledge and accommodate barriers tocommunication and understanding including speech, hearing, language, andemotion.
• Flexibility in attending organised educationalupdates and eagerness to expand on current knowledge base and cascading neweducational information to colleagues whenever possible
• Inform the Clinical Manager of any untowardincidents, work within all relevant policies and procedural guidelines e.g.infection control, safeguarding and risk management.
• Theabove list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be fullycomprehensive and may be amended to take account of changing circumstances orrequirements following consultation with the post holder.

Educationand In Service Training

• Be fully conversant in all the clinicalcomputer systems used within FCMS.
• Attend relevant study/induction days,seminars, courses etc, for individual development and for the benefit of theservice.
• Wherenecessary relevant training in the operation of new or unfamiliar equipment,software or procedures will be provided or arranged.

Confidentiality

Inthe course of your duties, you may have access to confidential informationabout patients, staff or health service business. On no account must such information bedivulged to anyone who is not authorised to receive it. Confidentiality of information must be alwayspreserved whether at or away from work. FCMShas in place a Whistle blowers Policy for staff wishing to express concerns.

DataProtection Act, 1998

Carry outany requirements within the duties applicable to the Data Protection Act, 1998.

Health and Safety At Work Act, 1974

Observeall responsibilities and carry out all duties, whether general to all employeesor specific to the post, relating to Health and Safety in accordance with thePractice and Departmental Safety Policies and any statutory requirements.

Clinical& Corporate Governance/Quality Assurance

Allemployees are expected to comply with the clinical and corporate governancearrangements of FCMS. Every employee is personally responsible for the qualityof the work, and standard of care, which they individually provide. It is their duty to seek to attain thehighest standards achievable both individually and collectively within theirknowledge, skills and resources available to them.

If youhave other work or outside interests, this must not conflict with your dutiesand responsibilities of your attendance for work as an employee of FCMS.

It is acondition of appointment that you must inform your manager before taking up ofany private practice, work for outside agencies or other employers, other workfor FCMS (including bank work on other services), voluntary work or outsideinterests you have or propose to have.This is to ensure there is no question of it creating a conflict ofinterest with your duties. You must alsotherefore seek your manager's approval before taking on any such other work oroutside interest at any time after entering employment.

WorkingTime Directive

You arerequired to comply with the regulations governing working time and to anylocally agreed associated arrangements.

Harassmentand Bullying

FCMScondemns all forms of harassment and bullying and is actively seeking topromote a workplace where employees are treated with dignity, respect andwithout bias.

In all the foregoing text any reference to onegender whether direct or implied equally includes the opposite gender unlessspecifically stated to be otherwise.

FireTraining

Each member of the staff has a statutoryobligation to attend a Fire Lecture each year.It is the responsibility of each member of staff to ensure that theycomply with this legal requirement.

No SmokingPolicy

FCMS has a no smoking policy.

Disclosure/CriminalRecord (DBS)

This post will be subject to enhanceddisclosure under DBS and is subject to the Rehabilitation of OffendersAct (Exemption Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submissionfor Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly knownas CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. This will require threeforms of valid ID to be produced and verified. The onboarding process is alsosubject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references andeligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevantdocumentation as evidence).

Disability Confident Employer - As users ofthe disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabledapplicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy

*Pleasenote that our roles are not being considered for sponsorship at this time*

The organisation is committed tosafeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerableadults and expects all staffto share this commitment. You will beexpected to fulfil your mandatory safeguarding training at the level applicableto this role.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlyif we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you areinterested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Skills

• Ability to work as a team member
• Able to exercise initiative in organisation and prioritising.
• Good communication skills both written and oral
• Good Interpersonal skills
• Basic IT skills
• Knowledge of EMIS computer system

Teaching

• Willing / able to attend appropriate training
• Commitment to own personal development

Qualifications

• Good standard of general education
• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
• Venepuncture

Experience

• Experience of working in GP Practice or community
• Able to undertake clinical observations
• Have a knowledge of NHS Health checks
• Health promotion
• Up to date with Mandatory Training including Safeguarding Level 3

Personal Qualities

• Enthusiastic and committed about the role
• Flexible
• Positive and confident disposition
• Commitment to personal and professional development
• Promote the Service with its ever expansion
• Car Driver
• Require commitment to at least two shifts per month for the service

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.