Healthcare Assistant Luton
Job description
Overall Purpose of the Role: To assist with the delivery of patient care and to provide support to health care professionals within a multi-disciplinary team, under the supervision of the clinician and within the group parameters of practice. Principle Responsibilities will Include: ECG recording Chaperoning duties Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording Medical 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 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 Ensuring that stores are available, re-ordered and restocked appropriately Repeating basic observations on patients in the UCC waiting room and reporting any abnormal observations to the Nurse in Charge. Checking BLS equipment on a weekly basis and restocking when required. Job Title: Healthcare Assistant Principle Responsibilities Continued: Receiving all visitors of the urgent care centre, directing them as appropriate and acting as a focal point for enquiries To support patients to make appointments with own GP practice when appropriate To support non-registered patients to register with a GP locally Assisting the Urgent Treatment Centre to achieve both local and national agreed targets Supporting the Urgent Treatment Centre in the reduction of patients presenting at emergency department Reviewing and updating reception information as required for the benefit of the public and staff To assist in ensuring that Health & Safety policies and procedures are followed within the urgent care setting Responsible for Fire Co-ordinator duties in the clinic/department as per fire procedures. To assist in keeping the reception/waiting room area tidy at the end of each day Supporting the team to help implement new systems and procedures within the clinic/department. To work in co-operation with all administrative staff within the hospital to encourage teamwork to support and help each other to maintain a smooth running, professional service to the public and professional staff. Oversight of the medical equipment used at the Urgent Treatment Centre, eg arranging replacements and calibration Demonstrate basic life support skills after training Training and Development: Full training will be given to support the development of this role this will include an apprenticeship Participation in HUCs performance review and appraisal process Compliance with mandatory and statutory training requirements The above duties and responsibilities are intended to represent current priorities and are not meant to be an exhaustive list. The post holder may from time to time be asked to undertake other duties and responsibilities commensurate. Any changes to this job description to take account of changing service needs will be made in discussion with the post holder.
