Healthcare Assistant | East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust; Cambridgeshire

Healthcare Assistant | East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridgeshire)

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East of England Community Health & Care NHS Trust

iCaSH Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon
- Healthcare Assistant 30hrs per week (0.8wte)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, committed and experienced Healthcare Assistant to provide high quality services to the community who use the Integrated Contraception and Sexual Health (iCaSH) services across Cambridgeshire. You will be based at our site in Huntingdon.

You have, ‘front of house’, experience, with a demonstrable ability to develop a warm and welcoming rapport with people who use our services.

You have a keen eye for detail and have an understanding of the sensitivity and confidentiality involved in the delivery of a contraception, sexual health and HIV service.

You are required to hold a Care Certificate qualification, be trained to provide both phlebotomy, microscopy and chaperone duties, or demonstrate a willingness to undertake training.

The service operates, 8.30am to 6pm, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. You must be willing to work across all parts of the service where appropriate and be able to meet the travel requirements of the Trust.

You will be part of a dynamic team who ensure the efficient and effective use of available resources, in meeting the contraception, sexual health and HIV care needs of people in Cambridgeshire.

Working Pattern: on a rota
- Mon/Tue/Wed/Thurs - 8.30am to 6pm

Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 31st August 2026

To welcome patients and obtain relevant personal and clinical details as appropriate treating all such information as confidential.

Following training, and once signed off as competent, to act as a chaperone and assist nurses/doctors to undertake intimate examinations/procedures and or sexual health screening on patients.

Following training, provide a phlebotomy service for patients attending the services.

To undertake non-clinical duties in support of the admin team, for example undertake call taking and reception cover including 0300 number answering, registering patients and booking, support data collection and or general patient and non-patient administration.

Following training, undertake, read and interpret microscopy slides as directed by clinicians and appropriately document and communicate the associated findings, if required by the clinical service.

To be non-judgemental to all client groups regardless of age/ethnicity/religion.

Where local services require and following training and sign off, provide a service for asymptomatic patients requesting a routine sexual health screen.

Following training and being deemed competent to do so, to administer prescribed vaccines in accordance with service guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures, if required by the clinical service.

Hold the Care Certificate and deliver the associated standards of care or undertake the training at the earliest opportunity upon recruitment to post.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

To welcome patients and obtain relevant personal and clinical details as appropriate treating all such information as confidential.

Following training, and once signed off as competent, to act as a chaperone and assist nurses/doctors to undertake intimate examinations/procedures and or sexual health screening on patients.

To provide information to patients as appropriate who attend the department and to those who are diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection/HIV or require contraception advice, risk reduction advice and condom demonstration.

Where local services require and following training and sign off, provide a service for asymptomatic patients requesting a…