Job summary
Join Our Diabetes Specialist Team Make a Difference!
Diabetes Healthcare Assistant - 22.5 Hours per week
Base - Chippenham covering North and East PCNs
Are you passionate about healthcare and eager to learn new skills? This is your chance to be part of a dedicated multi-disciplinary Diabetes Service, supporting patients in community, hospital, and domiciliary settings across Wiltshire. Working closely with Diabetes Specialist Nurses and Dietitians, you'll assist with essential care, digital diabetes technology, and structured education like Xpert courses. Full training and accreditation provided! Help empower people with diabetes by delivering guidance on glucose monitoring systems, mobile apps, and digital tools.
Main duties of the job
This list is intended to summarise the key responsibilities and is not intended to cover every task that may be required of the role:
To work within own sphere of competence.
To undertake agreed clinical activities with patients under the direct and indirect supervision of the DSN.
To work within agreed protocols.
To work at the pace of the patient with explanation in understandable language.
Flexible response to patient difficulty with technology or equipment.
To record all activity in the patient records according to HCRG policy.
To facilitate or supervise the insertion of sensors via sterile procedure .
To demonstrate and support the setup of glucose monitoring systems,
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* £24,486 (pro rata to hours worked) with access to our group pension
* Free tea and coffee at your base location
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
* Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
The ideal candidate will have:
NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
Grade A-C in English
Ability to undertake training when in post
Good interpersonal skills
Good communication skills
Experience of working with mobile phones, apps, email
Deep understanding and knowledge of all IT systems able to use IT systems with ease and without support
Experience of working in a nursing environment
Experience of working with people of all ages Experience of demonstrating/ teaching new skills to patients
Previous experience as a healthcare assistant
Delivery of talks to large groups (public speaking)
Ability to use a computer
Ability to use a mobile phone & Apps
Ability to use multiple smartphones and understand the operating systems of each
Ability to work as part of an MDT
Must have a valid UK driving licence, use of a vehicle for business purposes and have business Insurance on the vehicle used.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* £24,486 (pro rata to hours worked) with access to our group pension
* Free tea and coffee at your base location
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
* Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
The ideal candidate will have:
NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
Grade A-C in English
Ability to undertake training when in post
Good interpersonal skills
Good communication skills
Experience of working with mobile phones, apps, email
Deep understanding and knowledge of all IT systems able to use IT systems with ease and without support
Experience of working in a nursing environment
Experience of working with people of all ages Experience of demonstrating/ teaching new skills to patients
Previous experience as a healthcare assistant
Delivery of talks to large groups (public speaking)
Ability to use a computer
Ability to use a mobile phone & Apps
Ability to use multiple smartphones and understand the operating systems of each
Ability to work as part of an MDT
Must have a valid UK driving licence, use of a vehicle for business purposes and have business Insurance on the vehicle used.
Person Specification
General Requirements
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Person Specification
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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
HCRG Care Group
Address
HCRG Care Group
Chippenham
Wiltshire
SN15 2AJ
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