Job summary
Why Might You Be Interested?
Fresh Perspectives: Embrace the latest diagnostic equipment. Offer modern healthcare, with traditional values.
Purposeful Work: Experience the daily reward of helping your local community. Play your part in local peoples diagnostic journey towards their needed treatment.
Genuine Team Spirit: Team up with dedicated colleagues, attending to patients referred directly from our member GP practices and Hospital colleagues.
Why Join Us?
Yes, we offer competitive pay. But beyond that, imagine the joy of being part of a close-knit team, linking closely with Practices across Morecambe Bay. Plus, you will learn, grow, and make a real difference in people's lives.
Main duties of the job
Assist the service team to deliver effective implementation of management of patients and their needs.
Managing the requirements of the patients, following set protocols and delivery of specified actions. This includes using the practice computer systems for input of information for recall and screening purposes. Accurate and efficient input of data for contract purposes is also required
Aid the service team with implementation of new initiatives in the delivery of Community Diagnostic procedures.
Encourage the development of integrated services within Primary Care to include integrated practice-based teams and multidisciplinary working.
Recognise the opportunities for working in partnership with the Primary Health and secondary care teams.
Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
Deliver opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient diagnostics.
Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side effects and interactions
About us
Be Part of Something Truly Special in Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay Primary Care Collaborative is not just any NHS service provider. Rooted in a genuine care for our local community, we operateon a "not-for-profit" basis, tirelessly committed to the well-being of every patient in Morecambe Bay.
What's Happening?
We'reon the brink of unveiling our new Community Diagnostic Centres. First up is our spoke site in Heysham, with Barrow soon to follow next year. As part of the NHS's flagship Community Diagnostic Centre programme, we'reproud to collaborate with the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust to directly benefitour local community.
Envision this: state-of-the-art, user-friendly equipment, perfectly tailored rooms, hassle-free appointments, and the unwavering promise of making a tangible difference for patients awaiting diagnostic tests.
Who Are We Looking For?
From seasoned professionals to newcomers looking to break into healthcare, if your heart is set on community care and you'reintrigued by diagnostics, we would love to hear from you.
Our openings include:
Job description
Job responsibilities
Post:Community Diagnostics Health Care Assistant
Accountable to:
Reports to:
Salary: £11.70 per hour
Hours: 37.5
Base: Heysham CDC Clinic
Job Purpose:
Morecambe Bay Primary Care Collaborative are involved in the delivery of Community Diagnostics, the role is to support patients through a diagnostic pathway. Community Diagnostics is a group of diagnostic test and procedures that require skills and competencies to provide the diagnostics interpret results and direct patients to next stages.
To support the Community Diagnostic Services in the delivery of services, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population.
The Health Care Assistant will support and deliver required and specific clinical tests, observations and interventions to patients.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
Assist the service team to deliver effective implementation of management of patients and their needs.
Managing the requirements of the patients, following set protocols and delivery of specified actions. This includes using the practice computer systems for input of information for recall and screening purposes. Accurate and efficient input of data for contract purposes is also required
Aid the service team with implementation of new initiatives in the delivery of Community Diagnostic procedures.
Encourage the development of integrated services within Primary Care to include integrated practice-based teams and multidisciplinary working.
Recognise the opportunities for working in partnership with the Primary Health and secondary care teams.
Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
Deliver opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient diagnostics.
Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side effects and interactions
Clinical skills will include some or all of the following (this list is not exhaustive):
General treatment room skills
Urinalysis
Spirometry
Warfarin (INR) monitoring
Phlebotomy
ECG
BT, BP and Weight
Hypertension
Diabetes
Asthma/COPD
This job description is neither definitive nor exhaustive and may be reviewed in the light of changing circumstances at a personal or organisational level. Any changes will be made in consultation with the post holder through the appraisal and review process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Post:Community Diagnostics Health Care Assistant
Accountable to:
Reports to:
Salary: £11.70 per hour
Hours: 37.5
Base: Heysham CDC Clinic
Job Purpose:
Morecambe Bay Primary Care Collaborative are involved in the delivery of Community Diagnostics, the role is to support patients through a diagnostic pathway. Community Diagnostics is a group of diagnostic test and procedures that require skills and competencies to provide the diagnostics interpret results and direct patients to next stages.
To support the Community Diagnostic Services in the delivery of services, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population.
The Health Care Assistant will support and deliver required and specific clinical tests, observations and interventions to patients.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
Assist the service team to deliver effective implementation of management of patients and their needs.
Managing the requirements of the patients, following set protocols and delivery of specified actions. This includes using the practice computer systems for input of information for recall and screening purposes. Accurate and efficient input of data for contract purposes is also required
Aid the service team with implementation of new initiatives in the delivery of Community Diagnostic procedures.
Encourage the development of integrated services within Primary Care to include integrated practice-based teams and multidisciplinary working.
Recognise the opportunities for working in partnership with the Primary Health and secondary care teams.
Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
Deliver opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient diagnostics.
Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side effects and interactions
Clinical skills will include some or all of the following (this list is not exhaustive):
General treatment room skills
Urinalysis
Spirometry
Warfarin (INR) monitoring
Phlebotomy
ECG
BT, BP and Weight
Hypertension
Diabetes
Asthma/COPD
This job description is neither definitive nor exhaustive and may be reviewed in the light of changing circumstances at a personal or organisational level. Any changes will be made in consultation with the post holder through the appraisal and review process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Healthcare qualification or equivalent level
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with the general public
- Experience of working in a healthcare setting
Desirable
- 6 months relevant experience working in a primary care environment in the last 2 years
Clinical Knowledge and Skills
Desirable
- Wound Care, Removal of sutures and staples
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- New patient medicals including height, weight, BP, pulse
- Chaperone procedure
- Spirometry
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
General Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
- Strong IT skills
- Clear, polite telephone manner
- Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
Desirable
- Competent in the use of patient record management systems
- Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Polite and confident
- Flexible and cooperative
- Motivated
- High levels of integrity and loyalty
- Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
- Ability to work under pressure / in stressful situations
- Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
- Commitment to ongoing professional development
- Effectively utilises resources
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Healthcare qualification or equivalent level
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with the general public
- Experience of working in a healthcare setting
Desirable
- 6 months relevant experience working in a primary care environment in the last 2 years
Clinical Knowledge and Skills
Desirable
- Wound Care, Removal of sutures and staples
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- New patient medicals including height, weight, BP, pulse
- Chaperone procedure
- Spirometry
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
General Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
- Strong IT skills
- Clear, polite telephone manner
- Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
Desirable
- Competent in the use of patient record management systems
- Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Polite and confident
- Flexible and cooperative
- Motivated
- High levels of integrity and loyalty
- Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
- Ability to work under pressure / in stressful situations
- Effectively able to communicate and understand the needs of the patient
- Commitment to ongoing professional development
- Effectively utilises resources
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
Morecambe Bay Primary Care Collaborative
Address
Heysham Primary Care Centre
Middleton Way
Heysham
Morecambe
Lancashire
LA3 2LE
Employer's website
https://mbpcc.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
