Job Introduction
As a Healthcare Assistant within HCRG Care Group, you’ll join a team who are focused on exceeding the needs of patients within the community of Cheshire West and Chester. You will support the delivery of care to a range of complex patients which will include meeting the clinical needs of patients, supporting busy clinics with rapid and professional care and managing your own blood and screening clinics, as well as supporting with microscopy. You will be based at The Fountains Health Centre in Chester, with regular travel to Ellesmere Port, Blacon, Neston, Winsford and Northwich.
The work is varied and interesting. Striving to successfully provide healthcare can be both challenging and rewarding and our services are developing to meet the needs of the local population.
Main Responsibility
Within this role, you will:
- Perform designated high quality clinical support tasks for patients in the clinic environment. Performance of clinical skills will be dependent on the competence and confidence of the individual.
- Report all matters pertinent to a patients’ condition and circumstances, including any changes, to relevant members of the Contraception & Sexual Health team
- Assist in specialist appointment clinic sessions as directed by qualified members of the team, for example IUD/IUS insertions, implant insertions and implant removals.
- Participate in asymptomatic screening clinics ensuring appropriate advice is given and advice is sort from colleagues as required. Refer patients to Nursing or Doctor colleagues when required
- Undertake Microscopy, sharing results with appropriate colleagues and seeking advice when needed
- To ensure that health promotional materials are available within the Contraception & Sexual Health clinics
- Maintain stock levels and ensure stock rotation and stock checks are carried out
- Assist clients as required within the clinics maintaining their privacy and dignity at all times. Advising on the principles of a healthy lifestyle, advising on the promotion of health and prevention of ill health, particularly relating to their sexual health.
- Support with administrative tasks that could include covering reception and supporting with administration results management.
The Ideal Candidate
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
This is an opportunity to put your care certificate, venipuncture and NVQ level 3 or equivalent/appropriate qualification/experience to great use. With strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.
In this role, you will need to be able drive and have access in your own car, allowing you to travel across our services in a timely manner.
It is a requirement that you are venepuncture trained.
Package Description
As a Bank Healthcare Assistant working in contraception and sexual health, you’ll be part of our valued team at The Cheshire West and Chester Integrated Contraception and Sexual Health Service.
As well as the attractive hourly rates of pay, at HCRG Care Group you will benefit from:
- Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
- Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
- HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
- Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
- Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
- Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
- Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
- Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
- Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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