Healthcare Assistant

About the Role

• Wound care.
• Venepuncture.
• Administering of medicines and vaccines if trained to do so (training for this will be made available if so desired).
• Health checks such as new patient checks or pre-diabetes information gathering.
• Re-stocking and stock rotation of surgical equipment and vaccines.
• 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 surgery.
• Providing valuable health promotion and education for service users, their families and carers.

About the Candidate

• be a dynamic, confident, self-motivated individual able to work autonomously and as part of the clinical team.
• have excellent communication skills.
• be able to work safely and effectively to guidelines.

About Us

We are a dispensing practice operating out of a purpose built surgery covering the North of Colchester and the surrounding villages. We continue to grow annually with new developments and currently have a list size of over 16,000. We regularly achieve excellent QoF achievement and patient feedback. We are also rated as Good across all domains by our latest CQC inspection. We are a SystmOne practice.

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.