Health Care Assistant or Nursing Associate

It is a varied role and all out HCAs and Nursing Associates offer a wide range of services, which would include Phlebotomy, ECGs, basic wound care alongside the registered nurses, health checks, smoking advice, annual reviews.

Health Care Assistant/Nursing Associate

Kennedy Way Surgery, Kennedy Way, Yate, Bristol BS37 4AA

Kennedy Way Surgery is looking to recruit a Health Care Assistant/Nursing Associate to join our well-established team for between 12 37 hours per week.

We are looking for a hardworking, reliable and well-motivated person to join our busy nursing team who strives to ensure that our patients receive the best possible care from the Practice.

You will a part of our friendly, welcoming and supportive team.

Kennedy Way Surgery is situated in the town of Yate with ample parking and amenities close by.

We serve the community of Yate and surrounding areas. Our patient population is 12,500 patients.

You will be part of a large multi-disciplinary team. We have 4 partners and 6 salaried GPs working alongside a paramedic, nursing team, pharmacy tech, physiotherapists, social prescriber, with a back-office team comprising of reception, secretarial and admin.

We consult using EMIS Web Clinical system with Ardens clinical decision support tool and docman as our document management system.

Job Description/Main Duties of the Job

New patient health checks

ECG recording

Urine testing/analysis

Blood pressure measurement/monitoring

Height and weight measurement

Wound Care.

Diabetic foot checks

Lifestyle advice

Phlebotomy

INR Monitoring

Chaperoning duties

Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs/nurses.

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.

There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be depending upon factors such as workload and staffing levels

Qualifications

Essential

Experience

Desirable

We are a friendly team who all try to to carry out their roles to the best of their ability. Everyone is willing and happy to help each other as and when required. We try to offer a same day service for GPs for both routine and urgent requests. We have 4 partners, 6 salaried GPs, working alongside a reception, secretarial and admin team, nurses, HCAs,nursing associate, pharmacy tech, paramedic, social prescriber, and physiotherapists.

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