Job role:Health Care Assistant
Company name:NHS Jobs
Salary: N/A
Job Reference: A3646-25-0004
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About the Job:
Job summary
The healthcare assistant will deliver safe, high-quality primary care services to our patients and assist the nursing and clinical team in the provision of treatment, preventative care, health promotion and patient education, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to our patients.
Main duties of the job
* Maintain agreed standards of safety and hygiene within the treatment room and consulting rooms.
* Weight, height, waist circumference and Body Mass Index Measurement of legs for compression hosiery
* Phlebotomy
* Process and management of laboratory samples requested by clinical team
* Undertake vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording
* Prepare and maintain environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions
* Venepuncture, wound care/dressings, ABPM, ECGs, Urinalysis, NHS health checks, etc.
* Routine blood pressures/blood glucose
* Flu, pneumococcal, shingles vaccinations, B12 injections
* Long Term Condition (LTC) clinic reviews
* Assist clinicians in carrying out minor clinical procedures including cleaning and maintenance of medical equipment
* Assist the nursing team in their clinical and administrative duties when necessary
About us
Lister Medical Centre is based in Harlow, Essex.
We are a well-established, friendly teaching practice, and our dedicated team includes 8 GPs, 4 Emergency Care Practitioners, 3 Practice Nurses, 2 Nursing Associates, 2 Physician Associate, 4 HCAs and 17 admin/support staff. We have been providing a full range of GP services for over 30 years and have a patient list size of over 21,000 patients.
As a teaching practice, we have Foundation Doctors and Students from Cambridge University based with us.
We are situated in a purpose-built health centre close to local amenities.
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