Job summary
You will work with the Sexual Health Service clinicians to promote the
general, emotional, and sexual health needs of the Sheffield community.
Working under the direct supervision and with agreed protocols you will assist
clinicians to promote and deliver long acting reversable contraception (LARC).
A diverse your role, it may include history taking, acting as a
chaperone, assisting the clinician with appropriate examinations and tests, and
offering support to patients undergoing LARC fit.
You will have some responsibility for the administration and rotation of
stock.
As an integral part
of our Sexual Health team, you will work strictly in accordance with local and
national protocol (such as safeguarding legislation) and engage with continuing
professional development opportunities.
Main duties of the job
Duties and responsibilities:
- To assist
registered clinician during IUS and Coil fits.
- Setting up the equipment for clinical procedures.
- To tidy away and
clean the clinical area before, between and after procedures.
- To be able to
carry out routine Uranalysis Screening.
- To assist in the
event of medical emergency.
- To act as a chaperone
and advocate for the patient.
- To be able to
carry out routine observations such as height, weight and BMI measurements.
- To ensure as
safe, clean environment in line with infection control guidance.
- To monitor stock
levels, informing managers when stock levels drop.
To count in and put away
stock deliveries
About us
Primary Care Sheffield (PCS) is a GP-led organisation. Our shareholders
are 75 GP practices in Sheffield covering over 600,000 patients. As well as
providing a unified voice for general practice in the city, we play an active
role both within our Accountable Care Partnership (ACP) and the wider South
Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System (ICS).
General practice working at scale through PCS enables us to:
Provide
community sexual & reproductive health and gynaecology services outside of
hospital
Lead on
the response to Covid-19 within primary care, including hosting the Sheffield
Community Testing Service.
Improve
the quality of GP referrals into secondary care with the provision of education,
support and referral guidance to practices across ten outpatient specialities.
Provide
evening and weekend appointments, with GPs, nurses, physiotherapists and
phlebotomists at sites around the city.
Deliver
workforce solutions, including first contact physiotherapists
Operate
community Long Acting Reversable Contraceptive clinics and vasectomy clinics.
Provide
governance and support to practices to enable them to work together in neighbourhoods
Were ambitious for our shareholders and so we continue to work hard,
both with providers and commissioners, to find new ways of maximising positive
patient outcomes and experiences.
Job description
Job responsibilities
About us
Primary Care Sheffield (PCS) is a GP-led organisation. Our
shareholders are 75 GP practices in Sheffield covering over 600,000 patients.
As well as providing a unified voice for general practice in the city, we
play an active role both within our Accountable Care Partnership (ACP) and
the wider South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System (ICS).
General practice working at scale through PCS enables us to:
Provide
community sexual & reproductive health and gynaecology services outside
of hospital
Lead
on the response to Covid-19 within primary care, including hosting the
Sheffield Community Testing Service.
Improve
the quality of GP referrals into secondary care with the provision of education,
support and referral guidance to practices across ten outpatient
specialities.
Provide
evening and weekend appointments, with GPs, nurses, physiotherapists and
phlebotomists at sites around the city.
Deliver
workforce solutions, including first contact physiotherapists
Operate
community Long Acting Reversable Contraceptive clinics and vasectomy clinics.
Provide
governance and support to practices to enable them to work together in neighbourhoods
Were ambitious for our shareholders and so we continue to work hard,
both with providers and commissioners, to find new ways of maximising
positive patient outcomes and experiences.
About the role
You will work with the Sexual Health Service clinicians to promote the
general, emotional, and sexual health needs of the Sheffield community.
Working under the direct supervision and with agreed protocols you
will assist clinicians to promote and deliver long acting reversable contraception
(LARC).
A diverse your role, it may include history taking, acting as a
chaperone, assisting the clinician with appropriate examinations and tests, and
offering support to patients undergoing LARC fit.
You will have some responsibility for the administration and rotation of
stock.
As an integral
part of our Sexual Health team, you will work strictly in accordance with local
and national protocol (such as safeguarding legislation) and engage with continuing
professional development opportunities.
3. MAIN DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES
Duties and responsibilities:
- To assist
registered clinician during IUS and Coil fits.
- Setting up the equipment for clinical procedures.
- To tidy away
and clean the clinical area before, between and after procedures.
- To be able
to carry out routine Uranalysis Screening.
- To assist
in the event of medical emergency.
- To act as a
chaperone and advocate for the patient.
- To be able
to carry out routine observations such as height, weight and BMI measurements.
- To ensure as
safe, clean environment in line with infection control guidance.
- To monitor stock
levels, informing managers when stock levels drop.
- To count in
and put away stock deliveries.
4. SCOPE AND RANGE
- The post
holder will be supervised by a clinical colleague when assisting with procedures
but will be expected to act independently exercising sound judgement and
be pre-emptive of the clinician and patients needs.
- The post
holder will have to be able to act autonomously in some areas of their
work seeking advice when necessary
The post holder will have regular 1:1s
with line mangers to support ongoing development and review performance.
Confidentiality
- While
seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather,
sensitive information in relation to their health and other
matters. They do so in
confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their
privacy and act appropriately
- In the
performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the
post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to
patients and their carers, PCS staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to
information relating to PCS as a business organisation. All such
information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
- Information relating to
patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business
of PCS may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the
practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the
protection of personal and sensitive data
Health & Safety
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range
of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and
infection control. This will include (but will not be limited to):
- Using
personal security systems within the workplace according to PCS
guidelines
- Awareness
of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and
regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice
guidelines
- Responsible
for the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including
collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers,
storage and transport arrangements
- Management
and maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the practice,
including provision, ordering, availability and ongoing correct usage by
staff
- Maintain
hand hygiene measures.
- Work to
infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation
of those protocols across the service.
- Active
observation of current working practices across the service in relation
to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that
procedures are followed, and weaknesses / training needs are identified,
escalating issues as appropriate
- Identifying
the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in
a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
- Making
effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate
and manage the training of others across the full range of infection
control and patient processes
- Monitoring
practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control,
ensuring that provision of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc are
sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of
facilities to be escalated as appropriate.
- Follow safe
management of sharps procedures including training, use, storage and
disposal
- Use
appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a
tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of
remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible
management
- Actively
identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and
infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping
own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile,
identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas
within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of
general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation
(where appropriate) with other sector managers
- Undertaking
periodic infection control training.
- Routine
management of own team areas, and maintenance of workspace standards
- Waste
management including collection handling, segregation, container
management, storage and collection
- Spillage
control procedures, management and training
- Decontamination
control procedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance
- Maintenance
of sterile environments
- Demonstrate
due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
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 recognises 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 that is
welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their
circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional development
- Participation in an annual individual
performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a
record of own personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own
development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and
activities to others who are undertaking similar work
Quality
The post-holder
will strive to maintain quality within the Hubs, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of
quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take
accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of
the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions
on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in
other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload
and resources
Job description
Job responsibilities
About us
Primary Care Sheffield (PCS) is a GP-led organisation. Our
shareholders are 75 GP practices in Sheffield covering over 600,000 patients.
As well as providing a unified voice for general practice in the city, we
play an active role both within our Accountable Care Partnership (ACP) and
the wider South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System (ICS).
General practice working at scale through PCS enables us to:
Provide
community sexual & reproductive health and gynaecology services outside
of hospital
Lead
on the response to Covid-19 within primary care, including hosting the
Sheffield Community Testing Service.
Improve
the quality of GP referrals into secondary care with the provision of education,
support and referral guidance to practices across ten outpatient
specialities.
Provide
evening and weekend appointments, with GPs, nurses, physiotherapists and
phlebotomists at sites around the city.
Deliver
workforce solutions, including first contact physiotherapists
Operate
community Long Acting Reversable Contraceptive clinics and vasectomy clinics.
Provide
governance and support to practices to enable them to work together in neighbourhoods
Were ambitious for our shareholders and so we continue to work hard,
both with providers and commissioners, to find new ways of maximising
positive patient outcomes and experiences.
About the role
You will work with the Sexual Health Service clinicians to promote the
general, emotional, and sexual health needs of the Sheffield community.
Working under the direct supervision and with agreed protocols you
will assist clinicians to promote and deliver long acting reversable contraception
(LARC).
A diverse your role, it may include history taking, acting as a
chaperone, assisting the clinician with appropriate examinations and tests, and
offering support to patients undergoing LARC fit.
You will have some responsibility for the administration and rotation of
stock.
As an integral
part of our Sexual Health team, you will work strictly in accordance with local
and national protocol (such as safeguarding legislation) and engage with continuing
professional development opportunities.
3. MAIN DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES
Duties and responsibilities:
- To assist
registered clinician during IUS and Coil fits.
- Setting up the equipment for clinical procedures.
- To tidy away
and clean the clinical area before, between and after procedures.
- To be able
to carry out routine Uranalysis Screening.
- To assist
in the event of medical emergency.
- To act as a
chaperone and advocate for the patient.
- To be able
to carry out routine observations such as height, weight and BMI measurements.
- To ensure as
safe, clean environment in line with infection control guidance.
- To monitor stock
levels, informing managers when stock levels drop.
- To count in
and put away stock deliveries.
4. SCOPE AND RANGE
- The post
holder will be supervised by a clinical colleague when assisting with procedures
but will be expected to act independently exercising sound judgement and
be pre-emptive of the clinician and patients needs.
- The post
holder will have to be able to act autonomously in some areas of their
work seeking advice when necessary
The post holder will have regular 1:1s
with line mangers to support ongoing development and review performance.
Confidentiality
- While
seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather,
sensitive information in relation to their health and other
matters. They do so in
confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their
privacy and act appropriately
- In the
performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the
post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to
patients and their carers, PCS staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to
information relating to PCS as a business organisation. All such
information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
- Information relating to
patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business
of PCS may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the
practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the
protection of personal and sensitive data
Health & Safety
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range
of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and
infection control. This will include (but will not be limited to):
- Using
personal security systems within the workplace according to PCS
guidelines
- Awareness
of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and
regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice
guidelines
- Responsible
for the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including
collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers,
storage and transport arrangements
- Management
and maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the practice,
including provision, ordering, availability and ongoing correct usage by
staff
- Maintain
hand hygiene measures.
- Work to
infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation
of those protocols across the service.
- Active
observation of current working practices across the service in relation
to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that
procedures are followed, and weaknesses / training needs are identified,
escalating issues as appropriate
- Identifying
the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in
a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
- Making
effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate
and manage the training of others across the full range of infection
control and patient processes
- Monitoring
practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control,
ensuring that provision of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc are
sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of
facilities to be escalated as appropriate.
- Follow safe
management of sharps procedures including training, use, storage and
disposal
- Use
appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a
tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of
remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible
management
- Actively
identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and
infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping
own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile,
identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas
within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of
general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation
(where appropriate) with other sector managers
- Undertaking
periodic infection control training.
- Routine
management of own team areas, and maintenance of workspace standards
- Waste
management including collection handling, segregation, container
management, storage and collection
- Spillage
control procedures, management and training
- Decontamination
control procedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance
- Maintenance
of sterile environments
- Demonstrate
due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
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 recognises 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 that is
welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their
circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional development
- Participation in an annual individual
performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a
record of own personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own
development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and
activities to others who are undertaking similar work
Quality
The post-holder
will strive to maintain quality within the Hubs, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of
quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take
accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of
the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions
on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in
other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload
and resources
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a HCA in a general practice clinic room/theatre environment.
- Ability to undertake clinical skills relevant to primary care, such as Blood pressure monitoring and urinalysis.
Desirable
- Previous experience of working in sexual health services.
- Previous experience of assisting with IUD/IUS fits
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to communicate effectively with patients, carers, other service providers, GPs and colleagues
- Good organisation skills, able to work effectively under own initiative with the ability to plan and prioritise own workload
- Versatility and the adaptability to work with different clinicians at different sites.
- Willing to undertake further training to learn new skills and develop your role
- Demonstrate understanding and commitment to equal opportunities, tackling discrimination, inclusion, equality and diversity
- An understanding of local safeguarding processes adult and children
Desirable
- Experience of SystmOne
- Basic Knowledge of how different LARC systems work and LARC procedures.
- Previous Chaperone experience.
- Stock handling and management processes.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a HCA in a general practice clinic room/theatre environment.
- Ability to undertake clinical skills relevant to primary care, such as Blood pressure monitoring and urinalysis.
Desirable
- Previous experience of working in sexual health services.
- Previous experience of assisting with IUD/IUS fits
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to communicate effectively with patients, carers, other service providers, GPs and colleagues
- Good organisation skills, able to work effectively under own initiative with the ability to plan and prioritise own workload
- Versatility and the adaptability to work with different clinicians at different sites.
- Willing to undertake further training to learn new skills and develop your role
- Demonstrate understanding and commitment to equal opportunities, tackling discrimination, inclusion, equality and diversity
- An understanding of local safeguarding processes adult and children
Desirable
- Experience of SystmOne
- Basic Knowledge of how different LARC systems work and LARC procedures.
- Previous Chaperone experience.
- Stock handling and management processes.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
