Healthcare Assistant

Job summary

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice, based in Colchester, has a fantastic opportunity for a healthcare assistant to join their busy team on a full-time basis.

Working alongside our existing HCAs and practice nurses, the primary role of the HCA will involve caring for patients with long-term conditions, managing wounds, and ensuring infection prevention and control.

You will work alongside our practice nurses, HCAs, GPs, ANPs, pharmacist, and other healthcare professional within our primary care network. The role will offer you the opportunity to build on your experience, skills and competence, requiring you to work effectively within a multidisciplinary healthcare team. If you are an experienced healthcare assistant looking for a fresh and exciting challenge, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The healthcare assistantwill be able toapply their clinical skills and knowledge to carry out high quality practice within designated clinical areas such as:

• Provide general and specific screening to practice patients.
• Assist with managing and developing care programmes for individual patients within specific long term condition group.
• Participate in quality audit initiatives, enhanced services and vaccinations, to include in annual home visits for housebound patients.
• Plan and implement health campaigns.
• Carry out immunisations, chronic disease management, e.g. diabetes.
• Give advice on healthy living.
• Conduct NHS health checks and managing INRs.
• General clinical work including; blood pressure checks, wound care and phlebotomy.

About us

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice is a friendly, long-established, award-winning, progressive GP practice. We are based over two surgery sites within 10 minutes of each other, serving the population of Stanway and Prettygate in Colchester, Essex. We are a training practice and offer services to a population of over 14,500 patients.

We hold monthly meetings and training sessions and have a diverse team of clinicians, including first contact physio, pharmacists, ANP/NP, care coordinator, social prescriber, health coach, GP assistant and an award-winning team of mental health workers. Benefits include:

• Competitive salary.
• Company pension.
• On-site parking.