Health Care AssistantNHS
Job summary
Are you passionate about patient care and looking for an opportunity to develop your clinical skills within a supportive and forward-thinking GP practice? The James Cochrane Practice is seeking a caring, motivated and enthusiastic Health Care Assistant to join our clinical team in Kendal.
As the largest GP practice in the South Lakes, caring for over 17,000 patients across two sites, we are committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a friendly multidisciplinary team and make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of our local community.
Main duties of the job
What will you be doing?
You will play an important role in supporting the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate patient care. Working alongside healthcare professionals, you will assist with a range of clinical and administrative tasks, including:
- Phlebotomy and specimen collection
- Blood pressure monitoring and routine clinical observations
- Annual review testing and health monitoring
- Urinalysis, ECG and simple clinical investigations
- Clinical administration
- Recording accurate clinical information within patient records
- Assisting clinicians and supporting patient care pathways
- Providing excellent patient service and communication
This is a varied and rewarding role that offers the opportunity to build clinical experience while contributing directly to patient outcomes
Job description
The Health Care Assistant will deliver and assist clinical staff in the provision of treatment, preventative care, health promotion and patient education.
Working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, you will assist in the care of the practice patient population.
As part of our nursing team, you will help to improve the medical care of patients by carrying out simple clinical observations and investigations, such as dipstick, blood pressures, phlebotomy, annual review tests and NHS health checks. You support the smooth running and delivery of clinical services through ensuring the clinical spaces are appropriately and safely stocked.
The HCA must ensure that they work within and recognise their scope of practice, escalating any concerns to a senior clinician as appropriate.
Any required training will be provided, and you will work under the supervision of registered clinicians for clinical tasks.
We're looking for someone who is:
- Caring, compassionate and patient focused
- A strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills
- Organised and able to prioritise effectively
- Able to work confidently as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Comfortable using IT systems and maintaining accurate records
- Willing to learn and develop new skills
- Available to participate in late and Saturday morning clinics
Previous experience within a healthcare setting is desirable but not essential, as training and support will be provided for the right candidate.
About us
We are a 2-site, part-dispensing practice in Kendal with around 17,500 patients, keen to attract caring, motivated, and passionate colleagues. We are a training practice with an active frailty and care home support team. We offer a wide range of enhanced services including minor surgery, women's health and menopause, coil/implant fitting, as well as Dermatology and ENT GPwER clinics.
We strive for a good work / life balance while achieving high-quality patient care and offer a fair allocation of work across all the GP team. We have a Quality Improvement culture, and continually develop our systems to respond to the changing environment of primary care, aiming to minimise administration workload and maximise job satisfaction to the benefit of our patients and our team.
We are a GP registrar and medical student training practice, an accredited Veteran Friendly practice, and a parkrun practice.