Health Care Assistant

Key Responsibilities:

• Taking blood specimens and preparing for laboratory testing
• completing relevant paper and electronic request forms
• Taking manual BP and pulse measurements
• Testing urine samples, and accurately recording the information in patient records and passing to relevant clinician
• Taking measurements of height and weight
• Performing ECGs and recording in patient records
• B12 injections
• Diabetic health checks
• Setting up procedure trolleys for doctors
• Assisting doctors and nurses as required
• Carrying out patient interviews in relation to memory assessments and others as required
• Anticoagulation monitoring
• Accurate and consistent record keeping
• Call and recall systems in operation for chronic disease management programmes and retinal screening
• Collecting and entering clinical information onto computer templates in accordance with GMS contract requirements
• Occasional chaperone for doctors carrying out intimate examinations
• Maintaining supplies of specimen bottles, containers, request forms
• Maintaining supplies of vaccines and other items as requested
• Cleaning and sterilising equipment (minimal as now single use)
• Maintaining IP&C standards and assisting the Nurse manager/Deputy Nurse manager with implementing any changes.
• Co-ordinating collection of clinical waste and supply of related equipment
• Ensuring health and safety and infection control procedures are observed
• Ensuring patient confidentiality is observed
• Attending such training courses as may from time to time become available and be deemed appropriate by the practice
• Other duties clinical and non-clinical deemed necessary and appropriate