Healthcare Assistant in Grantham

St John\'s Medical Centre has an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to join our enthusiastic and supportive Practice Team. The successful candidate must be organised, motivated and caring to ensure the highest levels of care are delivered to our patient population.

The role is for 37.5 hours a week. Pay is dependant on experience.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a dedicated Healthcare Assistant to join our dynamic primary care team. The successful candidate will deliver high-quality care to patients in a general practice setting. This role also includes home visits and phlebotomy.

About us

St John\'s Medical Centre is a large, fast paced GP surgery located in Grantham, offering excellent transport links with easy assess to the A1 and on the mainline for London. Two notable Grammar schools in Grantham are Kesteven and Grantham Girls School and The Kings School. We currently have circa 13,000 patients registered at the Surgery and retained our \'Good\' rating in our latest CQC Regulatory Review. We are a Training Practice and regularly welcome GP Registrars, Nursing Placements and Work experience from Colleges/ Schools in the local area.

In working for the Practice, you can benefit from the following:

• Free Staff Parking
• Generous Annual Leave Entitlement
• NHS Discounts at Retailers/ Restaurants
• Full training & support
• Supportive team environmnet.
• Mileage reimvursement for home visits.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible

Job responsibilities

PrimaryDuties and Areas of Responsibility

Perform routine patient health checks such as NHS Health Checks

• Support the Practice Nursing Team with healthpromotion programmes
• Carry out baseline observations such as pulse oximetry, blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate, recording findings accurately in the patients health care record using our Primary Care software system, SystmOne.
• Facilitate routine and 24-hour BP monitoring, advising patients accordingly
• Run chronic disease clinics such as Hypertension Reviews and Diabetic Foot Checks
• Carry out BMI checks as directed
• Act as a chaperone as required
• Undertake venepuncture
• When trained administer vaccinations within competencies
• Carry out 24 hour ECG as requested
• Ensure clinical waste is removed from clinical areas and sharps bins replaced in accordance with the practice IPC policy
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
• Ensure when significant events are identified, they are recorded appropriately on GP Team Net.

Skill & Attributes:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong organisational and time-management abilities.
• Commitment to patient-centred care and clinical excellence.
• IT literacy and familiarity with clinical systems.
• Must have the ability to travel locally for home visits, which includes having access to own vehicle with the relevant business insurance.

Person Specification

Requirements

• Flexibility to cover annual leave and sickness when required.
• Full clean UK driving licence, access to a vehicle and appropriate business insurance.

Qualifications

• NVQ level 3 or 4 Social and Healthcare qualification.

Experience

• Evidence of continues professional development.
• Knowledge of current NHS policies, frameworks and clinical guidelines.
• Experience of working in general practice.

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.