Senior Health Care Assistant
Health & Beyond - Woodcross Health Centre
15 hours per week - Salary £13.57 an hour
Job Responsibilities:
• Venepuncture
• Blood pressure recording
• Administer:
• Influenza vaccines
• Pneumococcal vaccines
• Shingles vaccines
• Administer B12 vaccines
• Collection of specimens as directed
• Urinalysis
• Height and weight measurement
• 24 Hr Blood Pressure monitoring
• Spirometry, peak flow measurements and nebulizing
• Performing ECG and recording
• Basic wound care including 2 layer bandaging
• Removal of sutures/clips etc.
• Assistance in the minor operating suite
• Clinical fridge maintenance & cold chain
• Smoking Cessation and other Health Promotion Activities
• To Assist in routine Child Health Surveillance
• To assist in Chronic Disease Clinics, including monitoring inhaler technique and foot pulses
• To perform NHS Health Checks and New patient checks
• To provide examination of ears and ear syringing in line with protocol
• To support delivery of clinical Quality & Outcomes Framework and QOF+
Undertake the following basic administrative activities as necessary
• Answering the telephone, receiving and transmitting messages
• Filing in forms
• Arranging patient appointments
• Liaise with other health care professionals
• Ordering of equipment and other supplies
• Filing and record keeping as necessary
• To order, monitor and manage clinical supplies
• To ensure clinical supplies are replaced/rotated across all clinical rooms
• To support other Health Care Professionals in the various chronic disease management clinics
• Any clinical tasks as deemed appropriate and supported by individual training
• To record appropriate information in patient held records, clinic records and the practice computer system to comply with legal and professional requirements.
• To maintain confidentiality at all times
• To comply with all appropriate practice policies, clinical practices and protocols
• To comply with health and safety fire regulations and to report accidents/ incidents to the relevant colleagues as soon as practical.
