Primary Care Careers

GP Healthcare Assistant

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Job summary

Sundon Medical Centre has a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic healthcare assistant to join our existing small, hardworking, friendly team on a full-time basis, 8:30am - 4:30pm, Monday - Friday.

The role of HCA is an essential part of our GP practice team who provide the full range of NHS primary medical services.

You will be working alongside our friendly and patient focused clinical and management teams, providing an essential support function and delivering the best care to all our patients. You must work with autonomy and a high degree of confidentiality, sensitivity, discretion, empathy and tact. This is a great opportunity for some one that really wants to have an impact on people's lives, to join a supportive and patient committed team.

Main duties of the job

  • Undertakes task and duties delegated by the clinical and management teams.
  • Ordering supplies and equipment
  • Sterilisation of equipment
  • Undertaking procedures such as NHS Health checks, New patient registration checks (if requested), including completing any necessary templates and referrals within the practice.
  • Assisting with minor surgery
  • BP monitoring
  • Urinalysis
  • Phlebotomy
  • Weight monitoring
  • Ensure specimens are labelled and bagged ready for collection with the necessary paperwork completed
  • Ensure clinical waste collection runs smoothly
  • Stocking rooms
  • Ensure sharps bins are ready for collection.

Please see the attached job description for further information.

About us

We are a supportive partnership, at the heart of our local community in north Luton near to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, with a dispensing branch surgery in Harlington village. The practice currently has 5 GP partners, 2 salaried doctors, 2 nurses, HCAs and mental health liaison worker. We are a training practice that aims to deliver quality general practice and develop new models of care for our practice population.

If you are interested in this role and would like to come and visit our surgery for an informal visit and discussion, please dont hesitate to get in contact. We look forward to welcoming you to our team.

We would encourage interested applicants to contact us for a chat or informal visit to the practice 01582 509088. Our practice manager's email is sharlene.clarke@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

22 June 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

7648

Job locations

142-144 Sundon Park Road

Luton

Bedfordshire

LU3 3AH


Job description

Job responsibilities

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Successful completion of the Care Certificate, or willingness to undertake, as indicated by the CQC
  • Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care, or equivalent

Desirable

  • A qualification in phlebotomy/venepuncture.

Experience

Essential

  • An understanding of general practice
  • Basic literacy and numeracy skills
  • Basic computer experience
  • Strong clinical skills - confidence and competence in all HCA duties required for the post
  • Experience within primary care or another healthcare setting
  • Excellent patient-facing communication and interpersonal skills;
  • Consistently confidential manner, as well as a compassionate and respectful approach, placing a high value on the dignity of patients, relatives, carers and colleagues;
  • Ability to work independently and determine own workload priorities, as well as working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Strong organisational and time management skills.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Successful completion of the Care Certificate, or willingness to undertake, as indicated by the CQC
  • Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care, or equivalent

Desirable

  • A qualification in phlebotomy/venepuncture.

Experience

Essential

  • An understanding of general practice
  • Basic literacy and numeracy skills
  • Basic computer experience
  • Strong clinical skills - confidence and competence in all HCA duties required for the post
  • Experience within primary care or another healthcare setting
  • Excellent patient-facing communication and interpersonal skills;
  • Consistently confidential manner, as well as a compassionate and respectful approach, placing a high value on the dignity of patients, relatives, carers and colleagues;
  • Ability to work independently and determine own workload priorities, as well as working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Strong organisational and time management skills.

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

Primary Care Careers

Address

142-144 Sundon Park Road

Luton

Bedfordshire

LU3 3AH


Employer's website

https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Care Careers

Address

142-144 Sundon Park Road

Luton

Bedfordshire

LU3 3AH


Employer's website

https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Recruitment Team

Sundon Medical Centre

enquiries@eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk

01206918760

Details

Date posted

22 June 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

7648

Job locations

142-144 Sundon Park Road

Luton

Bedfordshire

LU3 3AH


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