Healthcare Assistant

About the Role

Long Stratton Medical Partnership is looking to welcome an experienced healthcare assistant, with experience of working as an HCA in an NHS GP practice. This is a permanent position, offered on a part-time basis for 24 hours per week. The hours will cover three 8-hour working days, on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Please note, that this role is not suitable for those with a care-home background. Previous experience of working as an HCA in an NHS GP practice is essential.

• Providing screening and monitoring services for the patient population
• ECG recording
• NHS health checks
• 24 hour blood pressure monitoring
• Phlebotomy
• Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GP’s/nurses
• Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording
• Overseeing surgical equipment, vaccine re-stocking and stock rotation
• Support PN’s in management of diabetic follow-up and pre-diabetic recall

For further details, please see job description attached.

The healthcare assistant role within general practice can be very different to the role within other settings and as such we are only looking for applications from those with previous primary care experience.

• Successful completion of the Care Certificate, or willingness to undertake, as indicated by the CQC
• Previous experience working as an HCA in an NHS GP practice
• Experience in wound care management
• Experience of recording ECGs
• Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills
• Organised
• All applicants should ensure that they live within reasonable commuting distance.

• Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care, or equivalent
• Phlebotomy qualification
• Systm One experience

At Long Stratton Medical Partnership, we take pride in being a family focused, close knit team – our ‘work family’ is how we often describe ourselves. We offer a supportive, positive culture which is well-lead, and provide regular supervision and training for all staff.

Long Stratton is a small town in South Norfolk, 10 miles from the historic city of Norwich. We have 11,500 patients on our list, a CQC rating of ‘Good’ and operate from both our main site and a branch site in Newton Flotman. We are also a dispensing Practice with a dispensing list of around 5,500 patients. We use Systm One and run cloud-based telephony which links seamlessly with the clinical system and provides excellent functionality.

We have completed our surgery expansion work with a new wing being added to include 7 clinical rooms. The reason for the expansion is that Long Stratton is being bypassed, 2,000 new homes are planned and therefore potentially 5,000-6,000 new patients will be joining us.

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.