healthcare consultant Wadhurst, England
Job description
Are you passionate about providing excellent primary care?
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 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 a part-time (32 hours per week) Healthcare Assistant to join our Wadhurst Medical Group team, to provide a specialist resource for patients within our practice in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team.
Job responsibilities will include:
- Undertaking phlebotomy and sending to the laboratory
- Accurately measuring blood pressure with manual or automatic machines
- Measuring temperature, pulse, peripheral oxygen levels, height, weight and BMI, and recording patients health status (smoking, alcohol and activity levels)
- Checking and sending urine samples to the laboratory as needed and reporting to the GP for review as needed
- Removing sutures and clips, and undertaking wound management, as appropriate to training, experience and competency
- Administering injections and immunisations, including taking part in the surgeries annual flu vaccination programme
- Undertaking NHS Health Checks
- Assisting GPs in minor surgery, coil and implant clinics
- The management of clinical stock levels, including stocking clinical rooms and trolleys, rotation and ordering
- Taking responsibility, as a member of the nursing team, for checking fridge temperatures daily and weekly to ensure the cold chain is maintained, and for reporting any cold chain breaches
- Attending and participating in nurse and practice meetings
- Ensuring all mandatory training is up to date
For a full Job Description or to arrange an informal chat please contact Claire Smith (Operations Manager) or Anita Ferdinando (Administration Lead) on 01892 783888 or email [email protected].
Wadhurst Medical Group offers general medical services to people living and working in Wadhurst, Ticehurst and the surrounding area of East Sussex on the border of Kent. The Surgery is run by Sussex Primary Care Ltd - https://www.sussexprimarycare.co.uk/.
Sussex Primary Care (SPC) manage several 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.
