Bank Healthcare Assistant

A vacancy hasarisen within the Treatment Room for an enthusiastic, and flexible HCA(Healthcare Assistant) to work alongside and support the nursing team and other clinical staff within our large but friendly surgery. The role will be based mainly at BCHC but may involve work at our branch surgery on Bridge Street.

We are looking for an individual with the ability to provide quality care and who possesses good interpersonal and communication skills and has some healthcare skills froma previous role.

The successful candidate will also need to be able to drive as the role will involve some homephlebotomy. There will also be occasional Saturday working depending on theneeds of the Practice.

The HCA will help with duties mainly within the Treatment room supporting the clinical Nursing team but also other clinicians throughout the surgery. This will be by carrying out clinical tasks and supporting the teamwith housekeeping duties such as ordering, cleaning and administrative dutiesas required.

The HCA will need to work within the BCHC policies and localguidelines to ensure patient safety at the same time as recognising when theyneed to refer the patient back to a registered clinician.

Clinical duties will include but is not limited to:

Phlebotomy (some home phlebotomy), NHS health checks, ECG recordings, assisting with complex wounds, urinalysis, Blood pressure, weight measurements, administration of injections (B12, Pneumonia and Shingles), NHShealth checks,

Diabetes health checks and doppler studies.

The Healthcare assistant is a face-to-face role, however the successful candidate will also be working behind the scenes to ensure essential clinical supplies are ordered, the department is always clean and tidy and eliminating risk of cross infection.

We are a large but friendly team who strive togive excellent patient care. We like to invest in our staff and can offer comprehensive training with clinical supervision to ensure you work effectively and safely.

PML is a successful not-for-profit, GP-led organisation providing various NHS community and primary care clinical services to patients across Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire. We have evolved as a NHS healthcare provider since 2004 and in the last few years have grown significantly, now employing around 300 staff with a turnover of circa £16m. PML holds GMS contracts, as well as being a GP Federation representing circa 50 GP practices covering approximately 650,000 patients.

We welcome applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds and circumstances and people with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010

The purpose ofthis role is to support the clinical staff, predominantly in the Treatment roomin delivering high quality, safe, up to date services to the patients withinthe practice.

Working as partof the team you will be responsible for managing a list of patients alongside

Primary care clinical staff to deliver great patient care.

Duties and responsibilities amongst others will include:

Clinical Tasks:

• Health prevention screening such as NHS Health Checks
• Processing of urine samples.
• Referring to trained staff when appropriate.
• ECG recordings
• Assist with complex dressings
• Simple dressings
• Blood pressure Monitoring
• Flu injections (after training)
• Assistin gynae clinics
• Assistin the running of child health immunisation clinics
• Diabetic assessments (after training)

Non-Clinical Tasks include but is not limited to:

• Responsibility for maintaining and stocking clinical rooms including GP rooms.
• Ordering of stocks, and the storing of stock in an organised way.
• Responsibility for ensuring that the department adheres to health and safety regulations withthe cleaning and tidying of the department and any equipment and ensuring thesafe disposal of clinical waste at the end of each shift.
• Ensuring that the fridge stock is rotated, and fridge temperatures are recorded and correctly maintained.
• Andother duties that are appropriate to the role within this practice.

Other duties:

• Maintaining clear and accurate records in line with practice policy.
• Co-operatewith any research projects that may be taking place at the surgery.

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