Job Summary

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Healthcare Assistant to join our clinical team; someone with excellent communication skills, a strong sense of empathy, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment. If you're passionate about making a positive impact on patients' lives and are ready to contribute to a hardworking, collaborative clinical team, we'd love to hear from you.

We regularly review applications, and reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications for the role.

Main Duties of the Job

You will work closely with our well established clinical team to help provide clinical care and manage acute demand, seeing patients with a variety of conditions.

About the Candidate: Attention to detail, a willingness to learn and a commitment to providing high quality patient care are essential in this role. Our practice spans three sites across Milton Keynes, so the successful applicant will need their own transport.

About Us

Our ethos is to treat patients as we would expect our family members to be treated. We are proud of our caring and supportive team approach and it is important that the successful applicant fits well within our team. We pride ourselves on being a modern, forward thinking general practice whilst retaining traditional values. As [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], our three sites are within Stony Stratford, Great Holm and Shenley Church End. We are part of the Watling Street Primary Care Network and have a community team including nurses, social prescribers and social work assistant supporting our patient populations.

Job Responsibilities

• New patient health checks
• ECG recording
• Phlebotomy
• Chaperoning duties
• Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs/nurses
• Sterilising, cleansing and maintenance of surgical equipment
• Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording
• Surgical equipment and vaccine re-stocking and stock rotation
• Clearing and re-stocking consulting rooms
• Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions, including assisting GPs during the performance of minor operations
• Assisting in the assessment and surveillance of patients health and well-being
• Undertaking specific clinical activities for named patients that have been delegated and taught specifically in relation to that individual
• Helping to raise awareness of health and well-being and how it can be promoted
• Assisting with the collection and collation of data on needs related to health and well-being

Person Specification

Essential Experience

• Phlebotomy
• NHS Health Checks
• Capillary Blood Tests (Fingerprick Tests)
• Minor Ops Clinics / Family Planning Assistance
• Dressings
• Removal of Sutures
• B12 Injections
• Vaccinations
• Blood Pressure Checks
• Sample Management
• LTCs
• ECGs

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Employer Details

Employer name: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

Address: Kensington Drive, Great Holm, Milton Keynes MK89HN; Burchard Crescent, Shenley Church End, Milton Keynes MK56EY

Employer's website: https://www.watlingstreetpractice.com/

Contact: Recruitment Coordinator Jacobi Maro, [contact hidden], [contact hidden]