Healthcare Assistant
Higherland Surgery
Newcastle, ST5 2UEView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
Negotiable
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
31 October 2026
33 days leftJob description
HEALTHCARE ASSISTANT VACANCY A position has become available for a part-time Healthcare Assistant to join our friendly and supportive team at Higherla...
Main duties of the role include
- Phlebotomy
- ECG's
- Minor wound care
- Vital Signs including blood pressure checks
- Urine testing
- Hypertension reviews
- Assisting GP with minor surgery procedures
- Assisting GP with coils/implants
- Chaperoning
- Maintaining stock levels and ordering supplies
JOB TITLE: HealthCare Assistant
REPORTS TO: Practice Manager
The purpose of the role is to
Assist the Practice Nursing Team in providing investigations and support within the appropriate level of competence. To ensure compliance with all practice protocols and procedures.
The duties and responsibilities to be undertaken may include any or all of the items in the following list. Duties may be varied from time to time under the direction of the Senior Practice Nurse, dependent on current and evolving practice workload and staffing levels and include home visits, where required:
- Wound Care
- Vaccinations
- ECG recording
- Blood pressure recording and lifestyle documentation and advice
- BP and ECG domiciliary visits, as required
- FENO Testing
- Diabetic foot screening
- Glucose machine teaching use of
- Appointments for demonstration and loaning of BP home monitor
- Urinalysis
- Weight management
- Assist with minor operations/IUD as required
- New patient checks following health template
- Dementia care plans
- Collect and package laboratory specimens
- To maintain stock control system for all disposables in all clinical/treatment rooms
- To maintain agreed standards of hygiene in all clinical/treatment rooms
- To chaperone patients as necessary
- To check and record fridge temperatures daily, and act accordingly
- To maintain and check appropriately:
o Emergency boxes and resuscitation equipment
o Oxygen cylinder
- To collect and deal with clinical waste bags and sharps boxes in line with local policy
- With support from the Practice Nurse to keep health education notice boards up to date
- Maintain stock levels in all clinical rooms
- To communicate appropriately with senior nurse on duty
- Other healthcare related tasks depending on training
- To organise flu home visits
- To organise flu lists
- To undertake clerical duties as required by the nursing team
- To utilise the computer to operate the appointment system and to record relevant patient information
- Action computerised practice notes
- Keep accurate and up to date records
- To work within the practices guidelines, policies and procedures
- To be aware of the health and safety of others in the working environment. To comply at all times with the practices health and safety policies and procedures/infection control procedures
- To ensure confidentiality on all matters relating to patients and information obtained during the course of employment
- To identify training needs of self and participate in relevant education/training programmes
- To attend meetings as required
- To undertake such duties as may be required from time to time as are consistent with the responsibilities of the grade and the individuals level of competence
- Involved in teaching activities within the practice
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting potential risks identified.
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Surgery is a busy GP practice located on the outskirts of Newcastle-under-Lyme
town centre. Our clinical team currently includes 3 part-time GP
Partners, 1 full-time Practice Nurse and 1 part-time Healthcare Assistant,
supported by our wider practice team.
are a training practice caring for over 5,000 patients. As a training practice, Higherland Surgery has
the opportunity to work with Keele
University medical students, Foundation Year 2 (FY2) doctors and GP registrars. This creates a positive learning environment
where education, professional development and sharing knowledge are valued
across the whole practice team
Qualifications
Essential: - NVQ qualification in Health and Social Care
Desirable: - Previous experience working as a healthcare support worker; - Previous experience working in a general practice setting
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
17 September 2026
Last checked
21 September 2026
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