Health Care AssistantNHS

Job summary

We are a busy GP surgery dedicated to providing excellent primary care to our community. We value teamwork, professionalism, and patient-centred care.

We're looking for a motivated Health Care Assistant to join our nursing team. Duties include home visits, stock management, and routine patient care.

South Milford Surgery is a supportive environment and clinical and administrative teams work well together to achieve desired outcomes. A great place to work with people who want to contribute to a high standard of Patient Care.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct home visits for patients unable to attend the surgery for their annual review.
• Manage and maintain clinical stock and equipment.
• Take patient observations: blood pressure, pulse & pulse oximetry, temperature & weight.
• Perform phlebotomy.
• Record ECGs.
• Administer vaccinations & injections under a PSD.
• Conduct diabetic foot checks.
• Wound care.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, and admin staff.
• Follow infection control and confidentiality procedures.

Job description

Job title:Healthcare Assistant

Line manager / Accountable to:Lead Nurse

Hours per week: 15.5 across 2 days

Job summary:

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct home visits for patients unable to attend the surgery for their annual review.
• Manage and maintain clinical stock and equipment.
• Take patient observations: blood pressure, pulse, temperature & weight.
• Perform phlebotomy.
• Record ECGs.
• Administer vaccinations & injections under a PSD.
• Conduct diabetic foot checks.
• Wound care.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, and admin staff.
• Follow infection control and confidentiality procedures.

Skills & Qualifications, desirable but not essential:

• Experience as a Health Care Assistant or Nursing Associate in primary care/community settings and familiar with using SystemOne.
• Competent in phlebotomy, ECG recording, vaccine administration, wound care and diabetic foot checks.
• Ability to carry out home visits.

Essential Qualifications:

• Training certificates.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.

About us

South Milford Surgery & Bramham Medical Centre are part of the same partnership but the surgeries have separate patient lists and are members of different primary care networks. For this advert, the Nursing team work under the South Milford umbrella and work across all our sites which include our branches in Micklefield and Thorpe Willoughby.

A friendly professional atmosphere, with motivated teams of staff to achieve best patient outcomes