Health Care Assistant Ilford, England
Newbury Group Practice
Full Time
Ilford, England
15 GBP HOURLY Today
Job description
Hours 37.5 (including home visits to housebound patients for health monitoring checks and health prevention immunisation) Previous HCA Experience in primary care essential
Duties will include but not limited to:
- New patient health checks
- ECG recording
- Hypertension clinic
- Wound care
- Diabetic checks
- Weight management
- Smoking cessation
- Chaperoning duties
- Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs/Nurses
- Sterilising, cleansing and maintenance of surgical equipment
- Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording
- Surgical equipment and vaccine re-stocking and stock rotation
- Clearing and re-stocking consulting rooms
- Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions including assisting GPs during the performance of minor operations
- Assisting in the assessment and surveillance of patients’ health and well-being
- Undertaking specific clinical activities for named patients that have been delegated and taught specifically in relation to that individual
- Helping to raise awareness of health and well-being and how it can be promoted
- Assisting with the collection and collation of data on needs related to health and well-being
- To perform other clinical tasks as trained and agreed, to meet the needs of the practice
- To perform any other task within the skills of the post holder
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to £15.00 per hour
Application question(s):
- Previous experience in Primary Care
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 18/09/2023
