We are looking for a Health Care Assistant to support our SMIPhysical Health Check Improvement Project. The role involves completing physicalhealth checks for people with severe mental illness across all of Havering.
Main duties of the job
The role involves completing physical health checks for people with severe mental illness across all of Havering.
About us
We are a GP Federation that brings together Havering's GP practices to support General Practice in the provision of innovative, high-quality and responsible health care services for the residents and Primary Care professionals in Havering.
Havering's population has growing workforce needs across Primary Care; with most ARRS staff members recruited by the Federation, we continue to provide high quality recruitment and support services to our practices and PCNs, whilst promoting development, training, and progression for all of our staff members.
Job responsibilities
* Carry out basic physical observations (BP, pulse, height/weight, etc.)
* Co-ordinates with the patients GP to ensure completion of said health check
* Support patients with guidance around their physical health
* Record information accurately
Experience:
* Experience as an HCA ideally working in general practice currently
* Experience completing SMI Physical health checks
* Able to complete and record the relevant elements of the physical health check
* Able to work flexibly and independently
This is an ad-hoc bank role with extremely flexible hours which can be completed across Havering Hub sites.
Note that we reserve the right to close this advert early
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience as an HCA ideally working in general practice currently
* Experience completing SMI Physical health checks
* Able to complete and record the relevant elements of the physical health check
* Able to work flexibly and independently
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.
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