NHS

Health Care Assistant


PayCompetitive
LocationLeeds/England
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: A1815-25-0000?language=en&page=1291&sort=publicationDateDesc

      Job summary

      A great opportunity to drive clinical excellence within an innovative NHS GP practice.

      We are recruiting a Health Care Assistant to work alongside our established team to provide high class clinical care to our patient population.

      As a vital member of our team, you will play a pivotal role providing and delivering prescribed programmes of patient care.

      Main duties of the job

      Duties and Responsibilities

      • New patient health checks
      • ECG recording
      • Phlebotomy
      • Spirometry
      • Wound care, ulcer care and Doppler
      • Influenza, Pneumonia and B12 injections
      • Ear syringing
      • Hypertension and CVD risk assessments, inc 24 hour BP monitoring
      • Chaperoning duties
      • Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs/Nurses
      • Maintenance of surgical equipment
      • Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording
      • Surgical equipment and vaccine re-stocking and stock rotation
      • Clearing and re-stocking consulting rooms
      • Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions including assisting GPs during the performance of minor operations
      • Assisting in the assessment and surveillance of patients health and well-being
      • Undertaking specific clinical activities for named patients that have been delegated and taught specifically in relation to that individual
      • Helping to raise awareness of health and well-being and how it can be promoted
      • Assisting with the collection and collation of data on needs related to health and well-being

      About us

      Health Care First Partnership (HCF) is a partnership formed by a group of high-quality practices: Dr Bance & Partners, Ferrybridge Medical Centre, Queen Street Surgery and FMC Health Solutions Limited (t/a Park View Surgery). We came together to deliver modern services that are high quality and will meet the needs of our patients into the future.

      HCF is a General Practice Partnership open to all patients living within our practice boundary within Methley, Castleford, Ferrybridge, Airedale, Normanton and surrounding villages. We work in partnership with our patients and our Patient Forum to provide medical care for our patients.

      We are a Personal Medical Services (PMS) practice offering Primary Care Services for the diagnosis and prevention of disease. We help patients to manage their health and prevent illness. Our GPs assess, diagnose, treat and manage illness. They carry out screening for some diseases and promote general health and wellbeing. Our GPs act as a patients advocate, supporting and representing a patients best interests to ensure they receive the best and most appropriate health and/or social care.

      The Practice has a current list size of 31,500 patients and we are part of the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (formerly NHS Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group).

      Date posted

      09 January 2025

      Pay scheme

      Other

      Salary

      Depending on experience

      Contract

      Permanent

      Working pattern

      Full-time, Compressed hours

      Reference number

      A1815-25-0000

      Job locations

      Pinfold Surgery

      Pinfold Lane

      Leeds

      West Yorkshire

      LS26 9AA


      Doctors Surgery

      Queen Street

      Normanton

      West Yorkshire

      WF6 2BU


      8-10

      High Street

      Knottingley

      West Yorkshire

      WF11 8NQ


      Elizabeth Court Surgery

      Elizabeth Drive

      Castleford

      West Yorkshire

      WF10 3TG


      Castleford Health Centre

      Welbeck Street

      Castleford

      WF10 1HB


      Job description

      Job responsibilities

      Please refer to the Supporting Information for a full copy of the Job Description and Person Specification.

      Job description

      Job responsibilities

      Please refer to the Supporting Information for a full copy of the Job Description and Person Specification.

      Person Specification

      Qualifications

      Essential

      • Preferably educated to NVQ level 3
      • GCSE, or equivalent, Grade C or above including Maths, English and a Science subject
      • Phlebotomy Certificate
      • The Care Certificate, or to complete within 6 months of joining

      Desirable

      • Leg Ulcer Management Certificate
      • Foundation Degree Spirometry Certificate
      • ECG Performance Certificate
      • Asthma and COPD HCA Certificate
      • Influenza, Pneumonia and B12 Certificate

      Experience

      Essential

      • Experience in a clinical environment
      • Basic health care assessment experience, ie Blood tests, Blood Pressure and ECG

      Desirable

      • Familiar with primary care setting
      • Familiar with SystmOne

      Knowledge and Skills

      Essential

      • Clinical performance certificates
      • Communication skills, both written and verbal
      • Negotiation and conflict management skills
      • Resource management skills
      • Work as part of team member and on own initiative
      • Good time management and flexibility
      • Intermediate clinical practice skills
      • Co-management of patients with long term conditions
      • Management of patients with complex needs
      • Accountability for own role
      • Local and national health policies and guidelines
      • Information governance issues in primary care
      • Patient specific direction and associated policies
      • Self motivating and self confident, able to work with minimal direction
      • Adaptable and innovative
      • Enthusiasm, with energy and drive
      • Trustworthy, honest, caring and sympathetic
      • Strategic thinking with vision
      • Hard working, reliable and resourceful
      • Willing to work flexible hours as necessary
      • Considered, steady approach
      • Diplomacy

      Desirable

      • Diversity and Equality issues
      • Health and Social awareness issues
      • Ability to travel
      Person Specification

      Qualifications

      Essential

      • Preferably educated to NVQ level 3
      • GCSE, or equivalent, Grade C or above including Maths, English and a Science subject
      • Phlebotomy Certificate
      • The Care Certificate, or to complete within 6 months of joining

      Desirable

      • Leg Ulcer Management Certificate
      • Foundation Degree Spirometry Certificate
      • ECG Performance Certificate
      • Asthma and COPD HCA Certificate
      • Influenza, Pneumonia and B12 Certificate

      Experience

      Essential

      • Experience in a clinical environment
      • Basic health care assessment experience, ie Blood tests, Blood Pressure and ECG

      Desirable

      • Familiar with primary care setting
      • Familiar with SystmOne

      Knowledge and Skills

      Essential

      • Clinical performance certificates
      • Communication skills, both written and verbal
      • Negotiation and conflict management skills
      • Resource management skills
      • Work as part of team member and on own initiative
      • Good time management and flexibility
      • Intermediate clinical practice skills
      • Co-management of patients with long term conditions
      • Management of patients with complex needs
      • Accountability for own role
      • Local and national health policies and guidelines
      • Information governance issues in primary care
      • Patient specific direction and associated policies
      • Self motivating and self confident, able to work with minimal direction
      • Adaptable and innovative
      • Enthusiasm, with energy and drive
      • Trustworthy, honest, caring and sympathetic
      • Strategic thinking with vision
      • Hard working, reliable and resourceful
      • Willing to work flexible hours as necessary
      • Considered, steady approach
      • Diplomacy

      Desirable

      • Diversity and Equality issues
      • Health and Social awareness issues
      • Ability to travel

      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

      Health Care First Partnership

      Address

      Pinfold Surgery

      Pinfold Lane

      Leeds

      West Yorkshire

      LS26 9AA


      Employer's website

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

      Employer details

      Employer name

      Health Care First Partnership

      Address

      Pinfold Surgery

      Pinfold Lane

      Leeds

      West Yorkshire

      LS26 9AA


      Employer's website

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

  • About the company

      National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.