Housebound HCA

NHS; Ruislip; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is looking for a Housebound Healthcare Assistant to join their team in Ruislip, England. The role involves delivering essential services such as phlebotomy and health monitoring to vulnerable patients in their homes. Candidates must have experience working within healthcare and be adaptable, organized, and self-motivated. The position offers a supportive environment with access to training, aiming to provide high-quality care to the community while fostering a positive work culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in primary care is preferred.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Recognises priorities in problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Provide phlebotomy, ECG, and BP monitoring services to patients.
• Assess health needs and develop care plans.
• Report safeguarding concerns immediately.
• Maintain detailed consultation notes.

Skills

Experience within the NHS

Good time management

Ability to use initiative

Good IT skills

Adaptable

Education

Completed Care Certificate Training

Job description

Wehave a new and exciting opportunity to appoint Housebound Healthcare Assistantsto join our dynamic and friendly operations team. Post holders will beconfident in dealing with patients, able to work independently whilst understanding the importance of proactivelyescalating concerns.

Main duties of the job

You will be providing the delivery ofservices including Phlebotomy, 24hrBP monitoring, ECGs, Warfarin Monitoring, Atrial Fibrillation Monitoring to some of the most vulnerablepatients in Hillingdon in their homes. Ideally you will already be skilled inproviding phlebotomy services and should be willing to be trained to supportthe delivery of other aspects of patient care.

You will be supported in yourrole through friendly management and administration team as well as clinicalmanagement for all patient concerns. Hillingdon celebrates working inpartnership to achieve positive outcomes for patients whilst creating apositive work environment. Working in Hillingdon also means you have access toour outstanding training hub providing support and development to cliniciansworking in the area.

This will require you to loan workand travel between clinical sites and patients homes within, and up to 1 milesoutside of the borough of Hillingdon.

About us

The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC works with General Practice and other healthcare providers to deliver its vision for Hillingdon to deliver the best primary care outcomes for patients in the whole of London. We are a not-for-profit community interest company. The Confederation works to develop and support individual GP practices, PCNs and Neighbourhoods and their changing needs. We deliver excellent clinical services ourselves both at scale and complementary to General Practice. We are the provider representative voice for local General Practice into the wider NHS and other Partners. We are of the NHS but independent, innovative and transformational.

The Confederation determines to develop as an attractive place to work, providing rewarding roles and opportunities to grow in order to attract and retain great staff that in turn delivers our vision.

Our Values

• We work together to make a difference for patients
• We care enough to go the extra mile
• We support, trust, and empower
• We sincerely value each other
• We support Primary Care to own its destiny

Job responsibilities

• In accordance with the servicesneeds the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a varietyof duties including Phlebotomy,ECG, AF monitoring, Post-operative dressings, PillChecks, Immunisations, Phlebotomy, Spirometry, BP checks, NHS Health Checks anddiabetic foot checks according to the agreed and provided processes andprotocols. Training will be provided in accordance with business requirements.
• Assessing the health needs ofpatients with chronic health needs and using your own judgment to assesswhether further input is needed.
• Ensuring that potentialsafeguarding concerns are reported immediately
• Screening patients for disease riskfactors and early signs of illness.
• Contributing to QOF requirementsand recording data appropriately.
• Contributing to PCN requirementsand recording data appropriately.
• In consultation with patients andin line with current practice disease management protocols, developing careplans for health related illnesses.
• Screening patients for healtheducation.
• Admitting and discharging patientsto and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate.
• Recording clear and contemporaneousconsultation notes to agreed standards.
• Collecting data for audit purposesand contributing to the practice audit programme as required.
• Takeresponsibility for some aspects of the clinical work within the team, forexample: coordinating aspects of governance, QOF, enhanced services, CPD andkeeping clinical protocols up to date.
• In general, the post holder will be expected to undertake all the normalduties and responsibilities associated with a healthcare assistant workingwithin primary care.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working within the NHS, with general public & team working
• Well developed IT skills and an enthusiasm for new applications and software
• Good time management and highly organised
• Ability to use initiative, judgement, resourcefulness, common sense and local knowledge
• Interest in quality improvement work
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors when appropriate
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Experience working within primary care
• Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• Able to work independently
• Self-Motivation
• Adaptable
• Immunisation status - Hep B / MMR

Qualifications

• Eligible to work in UK
• Able to carry out duties with or without premises adaptation
• Completed Care Certificate Training or able to demonstrate working towards completion

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.