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Healthcare Assistant

Lakeside Healthcare Group

The closing date is 11 May 2025

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Job summary

We are looking for a Healthcare Assistant join our team providing general practice services including; Phlebotomy, Administering Injections such as Flu and Pneumonia, long term condition reviews, simple dressings, NHS Health checks etc.

Main duties of the job

All aspects of Healthcare assistant care, with opportunity to develop skills in line with the needs of the business and your personal interests and career aspirations.

About us

LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire.

Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.

Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.

About the Practice/Department/Team

Lakeside Healthcare at Yaxley is a well-established surgery with a list size of over 20,000, which is growing. We usually achieve full QOF points and have been awarded the RCGP Quality Practice Award twice. The practice adopted a Doctor First access system in 2012 for all GP and Nurse Practitioner/Emergency Care Practitioner appointments.

Lead by a GP Partner and Lead AHP, you would be one of an overall Nursing Team of 18, including Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Practitioners, Emergency Care Practitioners, Practice Nurses and HCAs, all working together to provide first class primary care.

Date posted

28 April 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12.21 an hour Negotiable depending on skills and experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A3007-25-0075

Job locations

Lakeside Healthcare

Landsdowne Road

Yaxley

Peterborough

PE7 3JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

The purpose of the post is to assist the GPs and nurse team in the delivery of safe, high quality primary care services to the practice population. The post holder will undertake delegated tasks and duties under indirect supervision of members of the nurse team. The post holder will work within clear parameters and lines of accountability after appropriate training and assessment of competence. The requirements of the post are linked to the Health Education England: District and General Practice Nursing Service Education and Career Framework.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The purpose of the post is to assist the GPs and nurse team in the delivery of safe, high quality primary care services to the practice population. The post holder will undertake delegated tasks and duties under indirect supervision of members of the nurse team. The post holder will work within clear parameters and lines of accountability after appropriate training and assessment of competence. The requirements of the post are linked to the Health Education England: District and General Practice Nursing Service Education and Career Framework.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Desire to work within care profession
  • Can work to a high standard of care under supervision

Desirable

  • Experience within a health care setting and/or primary care

Qualifications

Essential

  • Basic English and Maths GCE level c and above (new grade 4 and above)
  • Care Certificate Award
  • Qualified to NVQ level 2 Healthcare and/or
  • NCFE CACHE level 2 Certificate in Healthcare
  • Support Services
  • Other recognised form of educational attainment

Desirable

  • Previous healthcare experience in Primary Care clinical role
  • Qualified to NVQ level 3 or
  • NCFE CACHE level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support
  • Specialist qualification in advanced role
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Desire to work within care profession
  • Can work to a high standard of care under supervision

Desirable

  • Experience within a health care setting and/or primary care

Qualifications

Essential

  • Basic English and Maths GCE level c and above (new grade 4 and above)
  • Care Certificate Award
  • Qualified to NVQ level 2 Healthcare and/or
  • NCFE CACHE level 2 Certificate in Healthcare
  • Support Services
  • Other recognised form of educational attainment

Desirable

  • Previous healthcare experience in Primary Care clinical role
  • Qualified to NVQ level 3 or
  • NCFE CACHE level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support
  • Specialist qualification in advanced role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Lakeside Healthcare Group

Address

Lakeside Healthcare

Landsdowne Road

Yaxley

Peterborough

PE7 3JL


Employer's website

https://www.lakesidehealthcaregroup.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Lakeside Healthcare Group

Address

Lakeside Healthcare

Landsdowne Road

Yaxley

Peterborough

PE7 3JL


Employer's website

https://www.lakesidehealthcaregroup.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Date posted

28 April 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12.21 an hour Negotiable depending on skills and experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A3007-25-0075

Job locations

Lakeside Healthcare

Landsdowne Road

Yaxley

Peterborough

PE7 3JL


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