Healthcare Assistant

Market Street Health Group; City Of London; Presencial; GBP 21.000 - 26.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Market Street Health Group in London seeks a Health Care Assistant to join the nursing team, providing quality clinical and administrative support under the Senior Nurse Manager.

You will engage with a multilingual patient population, perform health checks, ECGs, injections and admin duties, while maintaining infection control and confidentiality. Training and supervision are provided as needed to meet service needs.

Qualificações

• General education (eg GCSEs) to grade C or above including literacy and numeracy skills.
• Willingness to do additional training & development to meet the needs of the position.
• NVQ Level 2/3 Health and Social Care

Responsabilidades

• Provide a professional service to our multilingual diverse practice population using interpreters to aid effective communication.
• Conduct health checks including blood pressure checks, urinalysis and height/weight for different groups of patients.
• Foot checks for Diabetic patients.
• Stitch and clip removals/Simple dressings.
• ECGs.
• Maintain infection control standards.
• Medical records summarising.
• Call and recall letters for nurse clinics.
• Ordering of stocks, supplies and stationary.
• Monitoring of vaccines and other drug stocks.
• Ordering health promotion literature and organising displays.
• Carrying out other admin duties that may be required.
• Maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Act as a chaperone during intimate examinations as and when necessary.
• Attend and participate in practice meetings and communicate effectively outside of meetings.
• Maintain health and safety at all times.

Conhecimentos

Diverse communities experience

Caring role experience

NHS experience

GP practice experience

Teamwork experience

GP clinical system

Computers literacy

Blood taking

Formação

GCSEs grade C or above

NVQ Level 2/3 Health and Social Care

Ferramentas

GP clinical system

Computer literacy

Descrição da vaga

To work as a Health Care Assistant, within the nursing team, providing qualityclinical and administrative support in an efficient manner, under the directionof the Senior Nurse Manager.

Main duties of the job

Specific responsibilities subject to appropriate training andsupervision could include the following range.

General

1 To provide a professional service to our multilingual diversepractice population using available resources including interpreters to aideffective communication.

Clinical

2 Other Health Checks including blood pressure checks,urinalysis and height/weight etc for different groups of patients

4 Foot checks for Diabeticpatients

8 Stitch and clip removals/ Simple dressings

9 ECGs

10 Maintain infection controlstandards

Admin

1 Medical recordssummarising

2 Call and recall lettersfor nurse clinics

3 Ordering of stocks,supplies and stationary

4 Monitoring of vaccinesand other drug stocks

5 Ordering health promotionliterature and organising displays

6 Carrying out other adminduties that may be required

Please note this job description could change as the needs of thepractice and service changes.

About us

Market Street Health Group issituated in Newham, one of the poorer areas of London. As a result, our patients tend tohave more health needs and often make more visits to see their doctor than theaverage. We have a higher than average representation of the under 16s, theelderly and look after 3 Nursing/Care Homes. Newham has a very diverse populationand as a practice we are one of the highest users of the local interpretingservice.

We are one of the largerpractices in Newham with over 13 thousand patients, 5 GPs, 3 GP Registrars, 1 Nurse,3 Health Care Assistants and 2 Clinical Pharmacists.

The clinical team is supportedby the Practice Manager, a team of 8 Receptionists supervised by a Lead Receptionist,2 Secretaries supervised by a Senior Secretary, a Medical Records Clerk, 2 Administratorsand a Facilities Manager plus Apprentices.

Job responsibilities

Specific responsibilities subject to appropriate training andsupervision could include the following range.

General

1 To provide a professional service to our multilingual diversepractice population using available resources including interpreters to aideffective communication.

Clinical

2 Other Health Checks including blood pressure checks,urinalysis and height/weight etc for different groups of patients

4 Foot checks for Diabeticpatients

8 Stitch and clip removals/ Simple dressings

9 ECGs

10 Maintain infection controlstandards

Admin

1 Medical recordssummarising

2 Call and recall lettersfor nurse clinics

3 Ordering of stocks,supplies and stationary

4 Monitoring of vaccinesand other drug stocks

5 Ordering health promotionliterature and organising displays

6 Carrying out other adminduties that may be required

Other

1 Maintain confidentialityat all times

2 Act as a chaperone, (after appropriate training), during intimateexaminations as and when necessary in line with the practice chaperone policydocumenting every occasion in the patients records using the practicechaperone template.

3 Attend and participate in practice meetings and communicateeffectively outside of meetings

4 Maintain health andsafety at all times

Training

1 You will need to engage in ongoing training to learn theskills required of this developing role as well as mandatory training relevantto the practice team.

Please note this job description could change as the needs of thepractice and service changes.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• - General education (eg GCSEs) to grade C or above including literacy and numeracy skills
• - Willingness to do additional training & development to meet the needs of the position
• - NVQ Level 2/3 Health and Social Care

Experience

• - Experience of diverse communities
• - Experience of working in a caring role
• - Experience of working in the NHS
• - Experience of working in general practice
• - Experience of working in a team
• - Experience of a GP clinical system
• - Experience of working with computers
• - Experience of taking blood

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.