Healthcare Assistant

Primary Care Careers; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Ipswich is seeking a dedicated Healthcare Support Worker to join their friendly team. This full-time position focuses on providing high-quality care as part of a nursing team. Candidates must have prior primary care experience and strong clinical skills, including phlebotomy. Responsibilities include undertaking patient tests and promoting health and wellbeing, making this a vital role in ensuring patient care excellence.

Qualifications

• Successful completion of the Care Certificate or willingness to undertake.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Confidential manner with compassion and respect.

Responsibilities

• Undertake phlebotomy for both venous and INR patient testing.
• Perform wound dressings and suture clip removals.
• Conduct health checks and new patient checks.

Skills

Strong clinical skills including venepuncture/phlebotomy

Excellent patient-facing communication

Organisational and time management skills

Education

Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care or equivalent

Job description

Botesdale Health Centre in Diss are looking for a professional, conscientious and highly effective Healthcare Support Worker (HCA) to join our friendly team. This is a full-time position working 37.5 hours per week. The primary focus of the role is to work as part of the nursing team and also as part of the wider practice team, providing high quality and timely care to registered patients of Botesdale Health Centre.

The healthcare assistant role within general practice can be very different to the role within other settings and as such we are only looking for applications from those with previous primary care experience.

Main duties of the job

• Undertake phlebotomy for both venous and INR patient testing
• Wound dressings and suture and clip removals
• Urine testing and analysis and submit samples to the laboratory following the practice protocol
• Obtaining specimens, ensuring their maintenance under correct conditions and dispatch to the appropriate agency
• Perform ECGs
• Promotion of health and wellbeing to individual patients by carrying out health checks and new patient checks

About us

We are a rural GMS 10,100 patient surgery with 4 partners, 5 salaried GPs and a fantastic clinical and practice team with an on-site dispensary. We are located in a modern, recently extended surgery with community nurses located on site as well as an X-ray suite and glorious surrounding countryside.

Job responsibilities

If you would like to find out more informationabout this role, please see the attached job specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Successful completion of the Care Certificate, or willingness to undertake, as indicated by the CQC;
• Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care, or equivalent;

Experience

• Strong clinical skills including venepuncture/phlebotomy.
• Excellent patient-facing communication and interpersonal skills.
• Confidential manner with a compassionate and respectful approach, placing a high value on the dignity of patients, relatives, carers and colleagues.
• Ability to work independently, determining own workload priorities, as well as working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.

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.