Weare currently seeking a Health Care Assistant (HCA) to join our friendlyand supportive team at West Moors Village Surgery. This opportunity has arisenfollowing the restructure of our Frailty and Nursing team. Ideally we wouldexpect candidates to have experience as a HCA, although not necessarily in afrailty role, as more specific training can be provided. The focus of the role is ensuring the delivery of safeand effective care to our patient population.
Salarywill be dependent on experience and will be discussed at interview. As this isa new role for the practice, the hours below may be subject to change to suitthe needs of the role and may include afternoons. However, the total hours of18hrs per week will not change.
Monday:09:00 13: 30
Tuesday:09:00 13:30
Wednesday:Day off
Thursday:09:00 13:30
Friday:09:00 13:30
Main duties of the job
TheHCA role involves a variety of duties including Phlebotomy (venepuncture), vaccinations,ECGs, BPs, and urinalysis, long-term condition checks, Health checks and woundcare. (This list is not exhaustive and may change to the needs of the nursingteam).
Thefundamental part of the HCA Frailty role is to meet the primary care needs ofan identified group of people identified as frail and needing further supportin the community. You would be expected to undertake home visits in accordancewith the relevant protocols, support patients and families to help patientssafely stay at home.
About us
We are based in the heart of West Moors Village Surgery.Weare an established training practice and regularly have GP registrars. Our team consists of 6 GPs and a full quota of nurse and admin teams. We like to empower our workforce, supporting you to develop to your fullest potential, as well as partnering with patients to take shared responsibility for their healthcare.
Job responsibilities
Working underthe direct supervision of the Lead Frailty GP & ACP and strictly inaccordance with specific Practice guidelines and protocols, the generalpractice & community HCA will assist the Practice clinical team in theprovision and delivery of prescribed programmes of patient care:
The following are the coreresponsibilities of the generalpractice & community HCA.There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this willbe dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
Assisting in the assessment andsurveillance of patients health and well-being.
Perform annualclinical review in line with patients birthday months, or earlier asclinically indicated.
Perform routine blood tests, bloodpressures, ECGs, perform MUST procedures as required.
Perform memory screening signpostingto clinician for further assessments and/or referrals.
Wound care
Within the frailtyassessments provide treatment, preventative care, screening and education topatients
In conjunction withthe Frailty lead GP, undertake baseline geriatric assessments for patientsidentified as severely frail by providing a comprehensive health assessment
Enter any relevantinformation on to the Dorset Care Plan, meeting the Frailty registerguidelines as clinically indicated.
Discussing daily withthe duty team any patients on the sudden and serious list which you may beaware of, and where possible deal with their acute needs.
Do your utmost, withyour experience and skill of these patients, to prevent admission to hospitaland implement the patients wishes as highlighted in the Dorset Care plan
Attend and participate in practicemeetings as required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Healthcare qualification (level 3 or 4) or working towards gaining equivalent level
* Previous completion of the HCA Care Certificate - as detailed within
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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