Healthcare Assistant London, England
Job description
This is your opportunity to become a vital part of the UK’s largest private healthcare provider, specialists in complex care.
Location: Roodlane, Central London
Contract: Permanent & full-time - 37.5 hours/week
Salary – £23,000-£25,000 depending on experience and skills
Employment Package: We will look after you with private healthcare insurance for you and your family, contributory pension scheme and a vast range of additional rewards.
Being part of a large, multisite, and established healthcare group, we can offer career progression, development and support to grow internally, in addition to funded courses.
The Impact you will have:
A Health Screening Health Care Assistant supports GPs, Nurses, Physiologist, in delivering patient medicals and GP consultation, by administering health function tests. An Healthcare Assistant is also responsible for the day to day clinical governance tasks.
As Primary care operate across many sites and for many corporate clients it is imperative that you take responsibility for the quality of your individual work and contribute as a member of a team, when delivery exceptional patient care
Duties are not limited to;
- Perform clinical duties as requested including but not limited to ECG, Lung Function, Phlebotomy, Ear Irrigation, Chain of Custody urine testing, Urine Analysis, dressings removal of sutures. (All necessary training will be provided if needed)
- Undertake essential measurements such as height, weight and body composition including BMI and tissue hydration
- Gain valid informed consent for assessment and treatment interventions in line with national and local policy.
- Make entries in the patients’ medical records as appropriate following local and national polices.
- Report Variances in patient’s condition immediately to a relevant professional.
- Liaise with clients and when appropriate discuss the results of the test carried out.
- Log all data and results for each client onto the various systems
- Stock checks, ordering and reconcile deliveries.
Knowledge and Understanding;
- Experience within a healthcare setting
- Ability to provide good quality care
- Care certificate (or working towards)
- Awareness of the need to focus on continuous quality improvement
If you would like to join HCA Healthcare UK as a Health Screening Healthcare Assistant and be part of an organisation shaping a healthier tomorrow, we invite you to apply.
Our application process is quick and easy, completing a 2-minute questionnaire and a portal access where you can upload your cv and track your application progress.
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