Healthcare Assistant- Birmingham Division

Job Overview

Modality Partnership Birmingham Division has a full time vacancy for a Health Care Assistant. The postholder will be a high performing HCA working at Enki Medical Practice. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.

This job is suitable for individuals who enjoy interacting with patients, delivering high quality patient care, and look forward to working closely with the nursing team and wider practice team.

The job is not suitable to people who are not resilient to working in a fast-paced environment, working flexibly in line with ever changing demands in Primary Care and the wider NHS.

As an employee with us you can benefit from:

Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme

Minimum 27 days annual leave, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata

Employee discounts and benefits scheme

Employee assistance programme (EAP)

Education and career pathways

If you are interested in learning more, please read on.

Please Note: The Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time during the advertising period.

Main duties of the job

This is a hands-on patient facing role; we are seeking individuals to join our team who are caring, compassionate and confident, who demonstrate effective communication, excellent customer service skills, good IT skills and the ability to support patients with interventions and/or queries. The postholder will be a key member of the practice team, responsible for undertaking patient health checks inc. BP / ECG monitoring / height and weight, taking blood samples, health and wellbeing advice and promotion.

Overview of your organisation

We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly within the healthcare team and support us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of skills in primary care with career advancing opportunities.

Job Description

Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.

You will love this job if you are seeking career development opportunities that can help you grow and build your nursing career. you have a passion for supporting patients by promoting health and well-being within the practice population, and you are able to carry out all relevant tests required to ensure patients such as those with long term conditions, or those that require tests as part of other medical conditions or referrals are supported.

You will not enjoy this job if you do not work well working as part of a wider multidisciplinary team of established practice nurses.

If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.

As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.

*PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL APPLICANTS THAT ARE INVITED FOR INTERVIEW MUST PROVE THEIR RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK AT THE INTERVIEW STAGE*

Person Specification: What are the minimum requirements all candidates need to meet?

Qualifications and Experience:

We require high performing team members to join our team with:

Knowledge:

Basic IT knowledge and skills

Demonstrates understanding of person-centred care

Willing to develop clinical skills and competency relevant to the role

Skills:

Good interpersonal skills

Good oral and written communication skills

Good organisational skills

Ability to work within a team

Ability to work alone

Ability to manage situations and environments

24 hour ABPM

BP checks

Pulse checks

ECG recording

Phlebotomy/advanced

Spirometry/Peak Flow

Chaperoning duties

Basic wound care

Ear care/irrigation

B12/Flu/Pneumococcal vaccinations

Health promotion

Personal Qualities:

Professional approach to work

Strong team player

Smart appearance

Exercises tact and discretion at all times

Demonstrates initiative to handle any unforeseen events during a shift

Demonstrates flexibility towards new working practices and towards working hours

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £10.42-£12.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Cycle to work scheme
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking

Work Location: In person