Health Care Assistant Crowborough, England
Job description
Are you passionate about supporting primary care at a time when the NHS has never been under such pressure?
Thats our focus at Sussex Primary Care. We work with GPs, Nurses, Pharmacists, Paramedics, practice staff and patients to achieve a different kind of future for primary care. Our relatively new and growing organisation is driven by the sole ambition of delivering excellent care to our population while looking after the people who do the caring.
We are looking for an Heath Care Assistant to join our team at Rotherfield Surgery, to provide a specialist resource for patients within our practice in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team.
Job Summary
They will focus upon supporting patients to be healthy by assessing their needs, providing HCA care, health education advice, screening activities, implementing care at the surgery, community or other settings, maintaining clinically accurate records and running clinics.
Key Responsibilities
Support the practice nurse with health promotion programmes. Carry out baseline observations such as pulse oximetry, blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate, recording findings accurately. Facilitate routine and 24-hour BP monitoring, phlebotamy and assisting with vaccination programmes and advising patients accordingly.
Rotherfield Surgery, East Sussex offers general services to people living and working in Crowborough and the surrounding area. The Surgery forms part of Rotherfield Surgery & The Brook Health Centre and is run by Sussex Primary Care Ltd - https://www.sussexprimarycare.co.uk/.
Sussex Primary Care (SPC) manage a number of GP surgeries across Sussex. The business is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) and was set up to support GP practices looking for a different way of working, forming a unique and innovative partnership between GP services and NHS Community Services.
