Job description

Job responsibilities

Long Term Conditions & Health Checks

• Provide a range of clinical diagnostic skills in order to provide annual health checks, recording onto the patients record and providing onward care and information.
• Provide a full health check including diagnostics and phlebotomy.
• Provide Patients with Immunisations both seasonal and long term.
• Attend the MDTs, recording and following up actions within defined timescales agreed during the meeting.
• Work with members of the primary care teams, to develop and implement proactive and reactive care and ensure data collection systems are completed accurate and in a timely matter.
• Raise awareness within the PCN to shared decision making and decision support tools.

There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will depend on factors such as workload and staffing levels:

Job responsibilities

Long Term Conditions & Health Checks

• Provide a range of clinical diagnostic skills in order to provide annual health checks, recording onto the patients record and providing onward care and information.
• Provide a full health check including diagnostics and phlebotomy.
• Provide Patients with Immunisations both seasonal and long term.
• Attend the MDTs, recording and following up actions within defined timescales agreed during the meeting.
• Work with members of the primary care teams, to develop and implement proactive and reactive care and ensure data collection systems are completed accurate and in a timely matter.
• Raise awareness within the PCN to shared decision making and decision support tools.

There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will depend on factors such as workload and staffing levels:

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with the general public & patients
• Experience of working in a healthcare setting or in the leisure industry / public / voluntary sector
• Experience of working with vulnerable and elderly people in their own homes

Desirable

• Experience of working in primary care

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
• NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care or other relevant professional academic qualification (Health Care Assistant)
• Qualified in Phlebotomy

Desirable

• Health & Well-being qualification

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Strong IT skills
• Knowledge of a Patient appointment and record system
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
• Effective time management (planning and organising)
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Problem-solving & analytical skills
• Ability to follow policy and procedure

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with the general public & patients
• Experience of working in a healthcare setting or in the leisure industry / public / voluntary sector
• Experience of working with vulnerable and elderly people in their own homes

Desirable

• Experience of working in primary care

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
• NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care or other relevant professional academic qualification (Health Care Assistant)
• Qualified in Phlebotomy

Desirable

• Health & Well-being qualification

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Strong IT skills
• Knowledge of a Patient appointment and record system
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
• Effective time management (planning and organising)
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Problem-solving & analytical skills
• Ability to follow policy and procedure

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

St Paul’s Primary Care Network

Address

St Pauls Medical Centre

121 Swindon Road

Cheltenham

Gloucestershire

GL50 4DP

Employer's website

https://www.stpaulspcn.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)