Job Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and dedicated Sexual Health Healthcare Assistant to join our Coventry and Warwickshire Sexual Health Service.
You'll provide support and assistance to the Coventry and Warwickshire Sexual Health hub by conducting non-invasive clinical tasks such as taking patient histories, collecting and processing samples, and providing information and advice on sexual health issues.
You'll also play a key role in maintaining patient confidentiality, ensuring a safe and respectful environment, and supporting patients in accessing appropriate care and treatment. Overall, the job purpose for this role is to contribute to the delivery of high-quality sexual health services that meet the needs of patients and promote their sexual well-being.
We are looking for someone who has had previous experience working in a health or social care setting as a healthcare assistant. Previous experience in a Sexual Health Clinic would be ideal.
At HCRG Care Group we are dedicated to enhancing health and care services. With a commitment to constant improvement and innovation, we are shaping the future of healthcare.
The service encompasses the provision of integrated specialised sexual health services and delivery of the C-card scheme, with a particular focus on the use of IT to support access to, and delivery of, services.
This post is based at our Leamington Spa Base however travel across all four of our sites (Coventry, Leamington Spa, Nuneaton and Rugby) is required. As a result a full UK driving license and access to a vehicle is required.
We are able to be flexible and discuss part-time as well as full-time working.
Main Responsibility
As a healthcare assistant, your responsibilities will include:
- Follow all policies and protocols pertaining to role, reporting any concerns or issues to lead nurses/administration manager
- Provide first point of contact to patients assessed as requiring asymptomatic screening management
- Undertake necessary tests including phlebotomy, urinalysis and instruction to patients regarding self- testing for STI
- Assist with the correct collection and recording of specimens
- Offer advice and education to patients regarding safe sex practices and offer information regarding further help and advice
- Perform condom demonstration to clients and understand the importance of education
- Perform pregnancy testing and urinalysis following instruction from Clinical colleagues
- Assist Clinical staff as necessary including recording of blood pressure, height, weight and BMI.
- Undertake chaperone training and be able to offer proactive chaperone skills with positive outcome for patients and colleagues
A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will have / will be:
- Qualified NVQ level 2 in Health & Social Care
- Able to communicate effectively with patients, relatives and multi-disciplinary team
- Able to provide individualised care and empathy
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of equality and diversity
- Able to demonstrate an awareness of the important of confidentiality / privacy and dignity
- Able to plan and prioritise own workload
- Recent experience of working in a patient setting or customer-facing
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Healthcare Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £22,308 with access to our group pension
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the 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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