Health Care Assistant

Job summary

Our Health Care Assistants (HCA) are vital and much appreciated members of our surgery Nursing Team. Line managed by our Lead Nurse the Nursing Team work closely with our Nurses, Care Co-ordinators, GP Assistants and GPs to provide comprehensive clinical care to our patients.

This particular role delivers a varied range of General Practice HCA care from phlebotomy to ECG, NHS Health Checks to Minor Surgery support. Training is available and the surgery is more than happy to support development into most areas of this role, however, to enable the safe delivery of our surgery care candidates must already be phlebotomy trained.

HCAs at Rowcroft Medical Centre provide a much respected and invaluable role within our patient care plans. With a working day between 0830 and 1830 (with option to work to 20:00 if it suits the candidate) this role allows for a person who both wishes to move from a current role within Primary Care or who would like to experience working in a new environment.

If you do have experience to phlebotomy and are at all interested in joining us then we would welcome hearing from you.

Please note. Interviews will be held at Rowcroft Medical Centre on 28 February 2024

Main duties of the job

Carry out:

• Phlebotomy
• NHS Health Checks
• ECG
• Wound dressing and other clinical tasks
• Baseline observations
• BMI Checks
• Fridge and Infection Control procedures
• Support and co-ordinate health promotion programmes and chronic disease management
• When trained carry out ear irrigation, vaccinations and smears
• Work with, and at times within, the Vulnerable Patient Team to pro-actively support our more vulnerable patients
• Provide support in Minor Surgery
• Chaperoning

About us

Rowcroft Medical Centre sits in the heart of Stroud and provides care to over 12,000 patients from both the town and the surrounding villages.

Our ethos is based on a solid belief that the better we appreciate and care for our team the better they care for our patients. We have a strong family (and pet!) focus and understand the pressures of modern-day life on our colleagues. As such we promote flexible working, team support, home working where practical, a broad range of training and development options and a friendly and welcoming environment to work in.

We are led by four GP Partners, all pay a proactive role in running the surgery, all have young families and are passionate about the health and wellbeing of our staff and patients.

Our patient base is exceptionally supportive. Whilst we are unable to provide everyone with everything they need, on the whole, our patients are happy with their care and extremely supportive of our staff. At our last CQC inspection we achieved a rating of Good with the team that has now developed into our Vulnerable Patient Team being rated as excellent.