Job role: Healthcare Assistant
Company name:NHS Jobs
Job Reference: A3705-25-0000
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About the Job:
Main roles will include but will not be limited to phlebotomy, spirometry, FeNO, ECG/ECG Holter tests, weight, and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.
* Healthcare Assistants work as part of the wider health and social care team and have direct contact with patients, service users or clients providing high quality and compassionate care.
* Healthcare Assistants have a more in-depth understanding about factors that influence health and ill-health.
* Healthcare Assistants will work in a variety of services and will develop additional skills and knowledge based on the service area in which they work.
* A Healthcare Assistant works under the supervision of a Registered Practitioner in accordance with organisational policy, protocols and standard operating procedures. The Registered Practitioner remains accountable for the appropriate and effective delegation of activities and must ensure that the
* Healthcare Assistant has the competency, confidence and expertise to carry out such activities.
* Having accepted the activity, the Healthcare Assistant is accountable for their actions. In a situation where the Healthcare Assistant feels they do not have the necessary skills or ability then they must alert the registered practitioner immediately.
* As an Healthcare Assistant you will have a basic understanding of: the principles and philosophy of health and social care; the physiology, organisation and function of the human body; lifespan developments and healthcare needs; research and development in the health and social care sector to inform and improve quality of care; provision and promotion of holistic person centred care and support, duty of care and safeguarding of individuals; the importance of the strategic environment in health and social care and the implications for the individual; the importance of current evidence based practice within scope of the role.
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