Healthcare Assistant

Job summary

We are looking to recruit a full time Healthcare Assistant to work across both sites of our busy practice. The Healthcare Assistant is an important member of the Primary Care team, delivering high-quality, patient focused care within the surgery.

Please note - this role will be based across both of our sites, one in the City Centre of Newcastle and in Westerhope.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role will involve:

• New Patient Health Checks
• ECGs
• Phlebotomy
• Height/Weight/BP
• Chaperoning Duties
• Urinalysis
• B12/Influenza Vaccines
• Diabetic Foot Checks
• First Part Chronic Disease Reviews
• Processing and Management of Lab samples as requested by the GPs/Nurses

Please see the job description for further information.

About us

SAVILLE MEDICAL GROUP is a large and friendly Practice in the centre of Newcastle with a branch surgery at Newbiggin Hall.

We care for approximately 42,500 patients with a high proportion of students in the City Centre and a more typical population in the branch surgery. The workforce consists of 7 GP Partners, 25 Salaried GPs and an extensive Nursing team. In addition, we have a medicines management team including 3 Clinical Pharmacists and over 40 skilled staff members.

We also offer an expanding wellbeing team of 9 staff members with experience in mental health, dementia, children's charities, homelessness, substance misuse, domestic abuse and any patient who struggles to engage with services and needs more support than GPs alone can provide.

Our Primary Care Network is led by one of our GP Partners and Practice Manager enabling us to collaborate with numerous key partners including the CCG, Newcastle Hospital Trust, LMC and our Federation. This helps the practice to remain highly proactive in integrating the latest healthcare policy and digital systems, which makes every day challenging and rewarding.