Locum Health Care Assistant

Deliver NHS Health Checks to eligible patients in line with the NHS health check programme

o Height, weight, BMI and waist circumference

o Blood pressure measurement

o Lifestyle assessment (smoking, alcohol, physical activity, diet, QRISK,QDiabetes)

o Blood test (e.g. cholesterol, HbA1c)

Complete follow up telephone appointments

Accurately record all activity on the clinical system EMIS

Calculate and explain CVD risk scores in a clear and supportive way

Provide brief advice and signposting to lifestyle services

Escalate or refer patients appropriately in line with PCN protocols

Ensure informed consent, confidentiality, and data quality standards are met

Work across multiple practices as required by the PCN

Adhere to infection prevention, safeguarding, and information governance

Deliver bloods to hospital at the end of each clinic.

Participate in Health care assistant meetings to support the development.

Identify abnormal results (e.g. raised blood pressure, cholesterol, HbA1c) and

escalate appropriately in line with local protocols.

Deliver NHS Health Checks to eligible patients in line with the NHS health check programme

o Height, weight, BMI and waist circumference

o Blood pressure measurement

o Lifestyle assessment (smoking, alcohol, physical activity, diet, QRISK,QDiabetes)

o Blood test (e.g. cholesterol, HbA1c)

Complete follow up telephone appointments

Accurately record all activity on the clinical system EMIS

Calculate and explain CVD risk scores in a clear and supportive way

Provide brief advice and signposting to lifestyle services

Escalate or refer patients appropriately in line with PCN protocols

Ensure informed consent, confidentiality, and data quality standards are met

Work across multiple practices as required by the PCN

Adhere to infection prevention, safeguarding, and information governance

Deliver bloods to hospital at the end of each clinic.

Participate in Health care assistant meetings to support the development.

Identify abnormal results (e.g. raised blood pressure, cholesterol, HbA1c) and

escalate appropriately in line with local protocols.

Sutton Primary Care Networks is the collaborative vehicle for the four

Sutton PCNs and the former Sutton GP Federation, working together as a single

entity. We are a Community Interest Company that aims to reinvest surpluses

back into general practice and primary care for the benefit of our practices

and the people who form the communities we serve.

Sutton has four PCNs whose boundaries are based on historical

relationships and organisational groupings. There are some similarities in

residents' health and care needs that are unique to a particular PCN, and many

more that are shared across all four PCNs.

Our four PCNs represent all 21 GP surgeries in Sutton. Their collective

footprints cover the London Borough of Sutton and its residents, who can access

and benefit from the services and improvements offered by Primary Care

Networks.

Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are a key part of the NHS Long Term Plan,

with all general practices being required to be in a network by June 2019, and

CCGs/Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) being required to commit recurrent funding

to develop and maintain them.

The networks

will have expanded neighbourhood teams comprising a range of staff, including

GPs, pharmacists, district nurses, community geriatricians, dementia workers,

and Allied Health Professionals such as physiotherapists and

podiatrists/chiropodists, alongside social care and the voluntary sector.

Qualifications

Essential: - NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care (or equivalent experience)

Desirable: - Knowledge of local lifestyle / prevention services

Experience

Additional