Healthcare Assistant Banbury
Job description
The purpose of this role is to support the clinical staff, predominantly in the Treatment room in delivering high quality, safe, up to date services to the patients within the practice. Working as part of the team you will be responsible for managing a list of patients alongside Primary care clinical staff to deliver great patient care. Duties and responsibilities amongst others will include: Clinical Tasks: Phlebotomy Health prevention screening such as NHS Health Checks Processing of urine samples. Referring to trained staff when appropriate. ECG recordings Assist with complex dressings Simple dressings Blood pressure Monitoring B12 injections (after training) Flu injections (after training) Assist in minor procedures Assist in gynae clinics Assist in the running of child health immunisation clinics Diabetic assessments (after training) Non-Clinical Tasks include but is not limited to: Responsibility for maintaining and stocking clinical rooms including GP rooms. Ordering of stocks, and the storing of stock in an organised way. Responsibility for ensuring that the department adheres to health and safety regulations with the cleaning and tidying of the department and any equipment and ensuring the safe disposal of clinical waste at the end of each shift. Ensuring that the fridge stock is rotated, and fridge temperatures are recorded and correctly maintained. And other duties that are appropriate to the role within this practice. Other duties: Maintaining clear and accurate records in line with practice policy. Attend staff meetings Always preserve confidentiality. Co-operate with any research projects that may be taking place at the surgery. Health and Safety: The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include: Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines. Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks. Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills. Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards. Reporting potential risks identified. Equality and Diversity: The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include: Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation. Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues. Behaving in a manner which is welcoming of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights. Confidentiality: The post holder must maintain confidentiality of information in accordance with professional and PML policy. The post holder may access information only on a need-to-know basis in the direct discharge of duties and divulge information only in the proper course of duties. Safeguarding: To recognise that promoting the welfare and safeguarding children, young people and adults is everyones business and access training and supervision as appropriate to the role. To support the organisation in ensuring service users are protected from abuse or the risk of abuse and their human rights are respected and upheld. To ensure concerns are responded to appropriately in line with the organisations Safeguarding Adults Policy and the Child Protection Policy and interagency safeguarding procedures. Personal/Professional Development: The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include: Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development. This may mean study in staff members own time. Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
