Health Care Assistant

Health Care Assistant Luton, East of England, England

East London NHS Foundation Trust
Full Time Luton, East of England, England 22816 - 24336 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) provides a wide range of mental health, community and primary care services across East London, Bedfordshire and Luton. The trust has an overarching vision to improve the quality of life for all we serve by focusing our efforts on improving population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and value. The trust has been rated outstanding by CQC and as a trust we do everything we can to embody our values of ‘we care, we respect, we are inclusive’. ELFT’s vision to improve the quality of life for all those we serve has drawn us into new areas of work, including primary care. As we move forwards to provide more primary care services it is an exciting time to be part of truly transformational change across the whole health and care system. As part of the new primary care directorate within ELFT our team will be involved in leading triple aim population health quality improvement work. Quality of care is our top priority. It is at the forefront of all that we do and is firmly embodied in our mission to provide the highest quality primary, community and mental health care in England by 2020. Being the best requires continual improvement- always seeking to do things better. Sometimes it involves fundamental change in the way things are done, with everyone working together sharing the same passion and commitment.

Under the direction of the Practice Nurses and ANPs undertake basic nursing and technical tasks to provide a comprehensive nursing service for Practice patients. Liaise with the Diabetic Team and be responsible for the administration of diabetic care plans.

  • To provide a phlebotomy service for the practice population
  • Undertake routine diagnostic nursing tasks such as, ECGs, blood pressure checks, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, blood glucose monitoring, routine heights, weights and urinalysis
  • Undertake spirometry
  • Use patient contacts as opportunities to promote health education, including education on practice systems such as obtaining a blood result.
  • Participate in health promotion projects such as No Smoking Day
  • Take responsibility for the administration of diabetic care planning, coordinating patient results and clinical observations and ensuring the care plan is sent to the patient in time for their annual review
To participate and administer the NHS Health Check Programme

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations

The organisation and delivery of primary care services in ELFT is being re-visioned to reflect an aspiration to deliver services in a more integrated manner in collaboration with internal and external partners. To this end the portfolio of primary care services provided directly by the Trust is expanding and the model of service delivery is changing to include more direct participation of service users. Directly provided primary care services range from specialist homeless practices to mainstream general practices and are located across a wide and diverse geography including central London, Bedfordshire and Luton.

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Health Care Assistant
East London NHS Foundation Trust

www.nhs.uk
London, United Kingdom
Amanda Pritchard
$5 to $25 million (USD)
10000+ Employees
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