Healthcare Assistant
Healthcare Assistant
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07-09-2025
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Job Description
Botesdale Health Centre are looking for a professional conscientious and highly effective healthcare support worker (HCA) to join our friendly team. The position is offered on a part-time basis working between 28-32 hours per week.
The primary focus of the role is to work as part of the nursing team and also as part of the wider practice team providing high quality and timely care to registered patients of the health centre. The post holder will be responsible for the treatment of patients within their level of competence supported by agreed protocols and agreement of the partners.
Duties will include:
- Undertake phlebotomy for both venous and INR patient testing.
- Blood pressure/weight/height/BMI checks.
- Wound dressings and suture and clip removals.
- Urine testing and analysis and submit samples to the laboratory following the practice protocol.
- Obtain specimens ensuring their maintenance under correct conditions and dispatch to the appropriate agency
- Perform ECGs.
- Promotion of health and wellbeing to individual patients by carrying out health checks and new patient checks.
- Make appropriate referral to GPs and other health and social care professionals.
- 24 hour BP monitoring and assisting patients with equipment queries for the ABPM.
- Support health promotion and prevention activities including smoking cessation weight management and lifestyle interventions.
- Assist the practice with vaccination and immunisation programmes.
- Any other procedures deemed reasonable within the scope of personal skills and within the post.
For further information please see the job description attached.
About the Candidate
The healthcare assistant role within general practice can be very different to the role within other settings and as such we are only looking for applications from those with previous primary care experience.
All applicants should have the following skills and qualifications:
- Care Certificate or equivalent qualification.
- Strong clinical skills including venepuncture/phlebotomy.
- Excellent patient-facing communication and interpersonal skills.
- Confidential manner with a compassionate and respectful approachplacing a high value on the dignity of patients relatives carers and colleagues.
- Ability to work independently determining own workload priorities as well as working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
About Us
We are a rural GMS 10000 patient surgery with 4 Partners 5 Salaried GPs and a fantastic clinical and practice team with an on-site Dispensary. We are located in a modern recently extended surgery with an X-ray suite and glorious surrounding countryside.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employment Type
Full-Time
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