Healthcare Assistant

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is hiring a Healthcare Assistant to join the Community COPD team. You will support clinicians in patient care, manage health observations, and handle essential administrative tasks. Ideal candidates should be able to work independently and in a team with relevant skills. The role offers a salary range between £29,651 to £31,312 annually, scaled pro rata.

Responsibilities

• Complete physical health observations like oxygen saturations and blood pressure.
• Complete home risk assessments for oxygen patients.
• Pick up microscopy samples and drop them to collection points.
• Record and retrieve information on service users using RIO.
• Undertake word processing for reports and letters.
• Respond to incoming calls and deal with enquiries.
• Undertake administrative duties to support clinicians.
• Assist in Pulmonary Rehabilitation classes.
• Book appointments and maintain clinicians' diaries.
• Maintain a database of team equipment.

Skills

multidisciplinary team working

lone working

organising own workload

Tools

RIO (electronic system)

Job description

***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***

The Healthcare assistant role sits within the Community COPD team and will support the Matrons, Associate Matrons and Physiotherapists to assess and manage COPD patients as part of their ongoing care. They will also support the team Administrators in their role providing telephone response, urgent communication and diary management.

Main duties of the job

Job share with the band 3 healthcare assistant in post 2 days per week with administrative tasks and patient facing roles. Roles include measuring observations and managing a small caseload of patients, alongside supporting the physiotherapy team during the pulmonary rehabilitation sessions.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

• To complete physical health observations, such as oxygen saturations weight and blood pressure
• To complete home risk assessment for prospective oxygen patients
• Picking up of microscopy samples and dropping to collection point
• Using RIO (electronic system) to record and retrieve information on service users
• Undertaking word processing for the provision of required reports, letters, summaries, etc. within the set standards
• Respond to incoming calls and deal with enquiries in accordance with management procedures.
• Undertake administrative duties to support clinicians.
• Undertaking an assistant role in Pulmonary Rehabilitation classes to support clinicians.
• Booking of appointments and maintaining clinicians Rio diaries
• Maintaining a database of team equipment and liaising with contractor for servicing

Person Specification

Skills

skills/abilities/knowledge

• multidisciplinary team working
• lone working

skills/abilities

• able to organise own workload

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.

£29,651 to £31,312 a yearpa inc pro rata