Minimum 3 shifts per week | Evenings & weekends | Potential to extend
Want regular HCA shifts without committing to a permanent role? Bring your phlebotomy and ECG skills to an established, GP-led urgent-care service.
Leaders in Care is recruiting a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) to support patients redirected from A&E into an urgent primary-care pathway.
Working across Redditch and Worcester, you’ll join GPs and experienced clinical colleagues, with regular work over an initial six-month period. You’ll need to commit to at least three shifts per week, with flexibility around the days you can offer within the available shift patterns.
Why this role?
- £15 per hour
- Regular, ongoing temporary work over six months, with potential to extend
- A choice of available evening and weekend shifts
- Varied clinical work using your phlebotomy, ECG and patient-observation skills
- An established service with experienced clinical colleagues
- Dedicated support from Georgia at Leaders in Care throughout registration, compliance and placement
Available shifts
- Monday–Friday: 3.30pm–10pm
- Saturday–Sunday: 9.30am–4pm or 3.30pm–10pm
You must be available for a minimum of three shifts each week.
What you’ll do
Working within your competencies and HCA scope of practice, you’ll:
- Carry out phlebotomy and venepuncture
- Complete ECG recordings
- Take and accurately document full clinical observations
- Use NEWS2, recognise deterioration and escalation promptly
- Provide basic wound care where appropriate
- Maintain clear electronic patient records
- Follow infection prevention and safeguarding procedures
This is a busy, patient-facing service where calm communication, sound judgement and knowing when to seek clinical support are essential.
What you’ll need
- Must have experience using EMIS.
- Recent HCA experience in general practice, a PCN, urgent care, community services or a comparable clinical setting
- Recent, formally signed-off phlebotomy/venepuncture competency
- Recent practical competency in ECG recording
- Experience taking clinical observations and providing basic wound care
- A sound understanding of NEWS2, deterioration and escalation
- Confidence using electronic patient records
- Availability for three or more shifts per week across Redditch and Worcester
EMIS experience is highly desirable.
Suture removal, Steri-Strip application, Care Certificate completion and additional primary-care competencies are welcomed but not essential.
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