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Job Description
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- Dressings and Wound care
- ECGs
- Phlebotomy
- Spirometry
- Health Checks
- Chaperoning duties
- Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GP/Nurses
- Vaccine/cold chain storage, monitoring and recording
- New patient health checks
- Clearing and re-stocking consulting rooms
- Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions, including assisting GPs
- Helping to raise awareness of health and well-being and how it can be promoted
- Phlebotomy
- Undertake ECG measurement
- Undertake dressings
- Carry out Dopplers and compression bandaging
- Removal of sutures
- Carry out BP checks and Hypertension checks
- Pill checks
- Chronic disease Care planning appointments to include foot checks
- Ambulatory blood pressure measurements
- Anti coag monitoring in surgery and home visits
- H Pylori testing
- Maintain accurate records and update all patient information as required, manually and by using the surgery computer as appropriate
- Ensure specimens are sent to laboratory
- Consulting rooms
- Purchase and room stocking of consulting room equipment
- Management of equipment (including forms)
- Clinical Waste and Infection control
- B12/ Pneumococcal/ Flu immunisation
- Assisting GPs with coil fits and implant
- Chaperoning
- NHS Health Checks
- Support training for staff learning venepuncture skills
- Attend training courses to develop skills appropriate to the requirement of the practice
- Be prepared to impart information to any trainee doctor or other healthcare professional about the system and protocols of any aspect of the work when required
- Phlebotomy
- Undertake ECG measurement
- Undertake dressings
- Carry out Dopplers and compression bandaging
- Removal of sutures
- Carry out BP checks and Hypertension checks
- Pill checks
- Chronic disease Care planning appointments to include foot checks
- Ambulatory blood pressure measurements
- Anti coag monitoring in surgery and home visits
- H Pylori testing
- Maintain accurate records and update all patient information as required, manually and by using the surgery computer as appropriate
- Ensure specimens are sent to laboratory
- Consulting rooms
- Purchase and room stocking of consulting room equipment
- Management of equipment (including forms)
- Clinical Waste and Infection control
- B12/ Pneumococcal/ Flu immunisation
- Assisting GPs with coil fits and implant
- Chaperoning
- NHS Health Checks
- Support training for staff learning venepuncture skills
- Attend training courses to develop skills appropriate to the requirement of the practice
- Be prepared to impart information to any trainee doctor or other healthcare professional about the system and protocols of any aspect of the work when required
- Experience of working as a Health Care Assistant in General Practice.
- Hold the relevant qualifications
- Experience of working as a Health Care Assistant in General Practice.
- Hold the relevant qualifications
Job summary
The Swan Practice are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced Health Care Assistant at their busy NHS GP practice.
The successful applicant must have a good range of skills and be able to work on their own initiative. Good communicational skills are essential .
The Swan Practice use the Emis web computer system and provide high quality care for their patients.
The ideal candidate will already have worked as a Health Care Assistant in General Practice and hold the relevant qualifications and experience.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will already have worked as a Health Care Assistant in General Practice and hold the relevant qualifications and experience.
Main duties include:
Assisting with the collection and collation of data on needs related to health and well-being.
About us
The successful candidate will be part ofour nursing team which includes long term condition nurses, practices nurse, health care assistants and phlebotomists, all working across our three sites.
Swan Practice is one of the largest practices in Buckinghamshire and serves the historic market town of Buckingham and surrounding villages.
The Swan Practice is caring and progressive striving to provide the highest quality person-centred-care enabled by teamwork, learning and innovation
Details
Date posted
24 June 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£12.57 to £13.25 an hour Dependant on experience, experienced Phlebotomists can apply
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
A0325-25-0011
Job locations
Masonic House
High Street
Buckingham
Buckinghamshire
MK18 1NU
North End
High Street
Buckingham
MK18 1NU
Verney Close
Buckingham
MK18 1JP
2 Vicarage Lane
Steeple Claydon
Buckingham
MK18 2PR
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
The main duties and responsibilities of our Health Care Assistant role are
Job responsibilities
The main duties and responsibilities of our Health Care Assistant role are
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Additional informationDisclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
The Swan Practice
Address
Masonic House
High Street
Buckingham
Buckinghamshire
MK18 1NU
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
The Swan Practice
Address
Masonic House
High Street
Buckingham
Buckinghamshire
MK18 1NU
Employer's website
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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