Healthcare Assistant

West Walk Surgery are looking for an experienced Healthcare Assistant to join our supportive, friendly team working working 12 hours a week over 2 days, ideally split over a Monday and Friday.

A phlebotomy qualification is essential. If you do not yet have experience in all other aspects of the job description, you must be willing to undertake the necessary training.

To support the practice nursing team in the delivery of nursing services, working as partof the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population. The healthcare assistant will deliver and assist clinical staff in the provision of treatment, preventative care, health promotion and patient education.

West Walk surgery has 14,800 patients and our wider team includes 11 doctors, a Clinical Pharmacy team, Mental Health Nurse, Physios and Paramedics. We are proud to be a sought-after training practice, and an award-winning Core Undergraduate Teaching practice.

Located in Yate town centre, an expanding town 10 miles north of Bristol, convenient for all amenities, we are a based in a large purpose-built premises with X-ray department on site,and have a small branch surgery in nearby Coalpit Heath

Height, Weight & BMI

Simple dressings- or willing to be trained.

Stock checks and ordering

Room checks and re-stock

ECG recording

Support the practice nurse with health promotion programmes

• Health Care Assistant experience.
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• Polite and confident
• Flexible and cooperative
• Motivated
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• EMIS user

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.