Job summary
Are you are a caring, compassionate and committed Healthcare Assistant looking for an exciting role within a well-established GP Service? Our service offers an interesting and varied patient caseloads, and a fantastic work-life balance.
The role is based at St Luke's Health Centre, working with a large, friendly, and professional practice team to lead and provide high quality services to the 6800 patients. The clinical system is system one. Opening hours are Monday 08.00 - 18.30 to Friday 0800-1830.
St Lukes Health Centre is based in Southend-on-sea, Essex. We believe that general practice can be a fun and supportive environment for Healthcare Assistant, and we ensure this through highly developed systems and processes, and support from GPs and allied healthcare professionals, such as our pharmacists and ANPs.
Main duties of the job
Your days will be fulfilling and rewarding and some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Health Checks - Blood Pressure, Height, Weight, BMI
- NHS Health Checks including referrals
- Referrals to health trainers and other community based services
- Health and Well-being -Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies and encourage principles of self-care
- Offer holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an on-going plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care
- Weight Management & Advice
- Minor Surgery - Assist GP in providing minor-surgery sessions, coil fits and implant fittings
- Chronic Disease management - Undertake appropriate investigation, clinical observations and interventions following agreed guidelines for patients with chronic diseases CHD, Diabetes and Hypertension.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued as a part time Healthcare Assistant at HCRG Care Group, at our St. Luke's Health Centre, Southend-On-Sea. You will receive access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary up to £21,500.00, dependent on experience and access to our Group Pension
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location.
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
Essential
- Minimum of 1 yrs recent primary and / or community health care assistant experience
- Must hold a Care Certificate
- Knowledge of local and national promotion strategies, health policies and public health issues
- Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy
- Knowledge of clinical governance issues in primary care
- To develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- To work as a positive and supportive team member
- Knowledge of needs of patients with long-term conditions
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face
Desirable
- Knowledge of EMIS Web and Adastra Clinical Systems
- Good standard of general education
Other requirements:
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued as a part time Healthcare Assistant at HCRG Care Group, at our St. Luke's Health Centre, Southend-On-Sea. You will receive access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary up to £21,500.00, dependent on experience and access to our Group Pension
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location.
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
Essential
- Minimum of 1 yrs recent primary and / or community health care assistant experience
- Must hold a Care Certificate
- Knowledge of local and national promotion strategies, health policies and public health issues
- Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy
- Knowledge of clinical governance issues in primary care
- To develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- To work as a positive and supportive team member
- Knowledge of needs of patients with long-term conditions
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face
Desirable
- Knowledge of EMIS Web and Adastra Clinical Systems
- Good standard of general education
Other requirements:
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Desirable
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Desirable
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
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.
