Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Undertake new patient health checks
• Support the practice nursing team with health promotion programmes
• Support the practice nursing team with the management of chronic disease clinics
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
• Carry out baseline observations such as pulse oximetry, blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate, and recording findings accurately
• Carry out electrocardiograms (ECGs)
• Facilitate routine BP monitoring, advising patients accordingly
• Carry out home visits to housebound patients
• Carry out BMI checks as directed
• Act as a chaperone as required
• Undertake venepuncture
• Administer flu vaccinations
• Ensure specimens are recorded and ready for onward transportation
• Ensure all clinical rooms are adequately stocked and prepared for each session
• Ensure fridges are cleaned routinely in accordance with extant guidance
• Recording and monitoring of fridge temperatures
• Assist in minor ops clinic
• Ensure clinical waste is removed from clinical areas and sharps bins replaced in accordance with the practice IPC policy
• Monitor and order stock for nursing team
• Any other duty commensurate with the role

Confidentiality:

• 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.

Health & Safety:

• 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.

Equality and Diversity:

• The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
• Acting in a way that recognises 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.

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Undertake new patient health checks
• Support the practice nursing team with health promotion programmes
• Support the practice nursing team with the management of chronic disease clinics
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
• Carry out baseline observations such as pulse oximetry, blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate, and recording findings accurately
• Carry out electrocardiograms (ECGs)
• Facilitate routine BP monitoring, advising patients accordingly
• Carry out home visits to housebound patients
• Carry out BMI checks as directed
• Act as a chaperone as required
• Undertake venepuncture
• Administer flu vaccinations
• Ensure specimens are recorded and ready for onward transportation
• Ensure all clinical rooms are adequately stocked and prepared for each session
• Ensure fridges are cleaned routinely in accordance with extant guidance
• Recording and monitoring of fridge temperatures
• Assist in minor ops clinic
• Ensure clinical waste is removed from clinical areas and sharps bins replaced in accordance with the practice IPC policy
• Monitor and order stock for nursing team
• Any other duty commensurate with the role

Confidentiality:

• 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.

Health & Safety:

• 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.

Equality and Diversity:

• The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
• Acting in a way that recognises 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.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a healthcare setting
• Experience of working with the general public

Desirable

• Experience of working as a Health Care Assistant in Primary Care

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to GCSE grade A-C in English and Maths or equivalent
• Hold a full valid UK driving licence

Desirable

• Qualified in Phlebotomy

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a healthcare setting
• Experience of working with the general public

Desirable

• Experience of working as a Health Care Assistant in Primary Care

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to GCSE grade A-C in English and Maths or equivalent
• Hold a full valid UK driving licence

Desirable

• Qualified in Phlebotomy

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Library House Surgery

Address

Avondale Road

Chorley

Lancashire

PR7 2AD

Employer's website

https://www.libraryhousesurgery.com/ (Opens in a new tab)