Health Care Assistant - HCA

Job Summary

The Role: This is a dynamic, hands-on role where you'll work both in clinics and out in the community, helping to deliver prevention and early-intervention services to people who may not routinely access primary care. You'll support NHS Health Checks and Lung Cancer Screening pathways, Talk Wellbeing outreach in community settings, clinical tasks including phlebotomy, ECGs, and observations, healthy lifestyle conversations using MECC principles, and signposting to smoking cessation, wellbeing, and community services.

About You: You're friendly, motivated, and confident engaging with diverse communities, with a real interest in prevention and reducing health inequalities. Essential: Strong communication and interpersonal skills, flexible approach, understanding of confidentiality and professional boundaries. Desirable: NVQ Level 1 & 2 / Care Certificate, Phlebotomy competency, experience in prevention/screening/outreach, EMIS Web experience, full UK driving licence.

What We Offer: Training and development within a progressive organisation, supportive clinical supervision, and the opportunity to make a real difference across Herefordshire.

Main Duties of the Job

The role supports early intervention, disease prevention, and improved access to care. Main responsibilities include working within competence, following guidance, seeking supervision, accurately documenting consultations in EMIS Web, maintaining patient confidentiality. Diagnostic testing and monitoring: NHS Health Checks, blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate, height/weight/BMI, cholesterol fingerprick testing, phlebotomy, ECGs, urinalysis. Health promotion and patient support: provide healthy lifestyle advice. Early application encouraged.

About Us

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] was established in 2012 as the provider arm of the GP Federation serving 185,000 patients in Herefordshire. Benefits include NHS pension (23.78% employer contribution), 33-38 days annual leave, Employee Benefits Programme (Vivup) with counselling, salary sacrifice for cars/bikes, retail discounts, and Blue Light discount scheme. Due to current licence limitations, visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants must already hold the right to work in the UK. We reserve the right to close early.

Job Details

• Date posted: 07 May 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £24,996.93 to £28,405.60 a year (Full time equivalent - pro rata)
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: S0001-26-0040
• Job locations: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Ltd, Whitecross Road, Hereford, HR4 0DG

Job Responsibilities

Job Purpose: The Health Care Assistant (HCA) supports both urgent/extended access clinical services and planned prevention programmes. Under supervision, contributes to safe effective clinical care and preventative services including NHS Health Checks and Lung Cancer Screening. Requires flexibility, strong communication skills, and commitment to patient-centred care across weekdays, evenings, weekends, and bank holidays.

Key Responsibilities: Clinical care - work within competence, support clinicians, undertake phlebotomy, ECGs, urinalysis, specimen preparation, record physiological observations (blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate, temperature, height/weight/BMI), simple wound care, chaperoning, respond to emergencies. A full Job Description & Person Specification is attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential: NVQ Level 1 & 2 in Health and Social Care or Care Certificate.

Experience

Desirable: Experience of NHS Health Checks and/or screening programmes, Phlebotomy competency, Experience of EMIS Web.

Other Requirements

Essential: Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), ability to work flexibly across enhanced access and prevention services, manage competing priorities, understanding of confidentiality and professional boundaries, confidence working within a multidisciplinary team.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information see NHS Careers website.

Employer Details

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

Address: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Ltd, Whitecross Road, Hereford, HR4 0DG

Employer's website: www.herefordshiregeneralpractice.co.uk

Employer Contact Details

For questions about the job, contact: Recruitment Team at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]