NHS
Healthcare Assistant - GP Practice - Part Time (24 hours per week)
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Job Description
- Req#: A0838-25-0000?language=en&page=689&sort=publicationDateDesc
- Enrolment to the NHS Pension Scheme
- Competitive salary
- Management support
- Free access for all staff and their family to our Health and Wellbeing support programme
- Personal and professional development opportunities
- Open, caring and positive culture
- Friendly, supportive team
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- New patient medicals, including height, weight, BP, pulse
- Chaperone procedure
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
- Wound care/removal of sutures and staples
- Experience of working with the general public
- Experience of working in a healthcare setting
- Experience of working in primary care
- Healthcare qualification (level 3 or 4) or working towards gaining equivalent level
- Previous completion of the HCA Care Certificate
- Phlebotomy certification
- Vaccination certification
- Strong IT skills
- Clear, polite telephone manner
- Effective time management (planning and organising)
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
- Ability to work as part of as team
- Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
- EMIS/DOCMAN user skills
- Polite and confident
- Flexible and cooperative
- Motivated
- Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
- High levels of integrity and loyalty
- Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
- Ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations
- Able to communicate effectively and understand the needs of the patient
- Commitment to ongoing professional development
- Effectively utilise resources
- Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort
- ECGs
- Venepuncture
- New patient medicals, including height, weight, BP, pulse
- Chaperone procedure
- Ability to record accurate clinical notes
- Wound care/removal of sutures and staples
- Experience of working with the general public
- Experience of working in a healthcare setting
- Experience of working in primary care
- Healthcare qualification (level 3 or 4) or working towards gaining equivalent level
- Previous completion of the HCA Care Certificate
- Phlebotomy certification
- Vaccination certification
- Strong IT skills
- Clear, polite telephone manner
- Effective time management (planning and organising)
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
- Ability to work as part of as team
- Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
- EMIS/DOCMAN user skills
- Polite and confident
- Flexible and cooperative
- Motivated
- Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
- High levels of integrity and loyalty
- Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
- Ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations
- Able to communicate effectively and understand the needs of the patient
- Commitment to ongoing professional development
- Effectively utilise resources
- Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort
Job summary
To support the Practice In all Clinical areas, delivering healthcare services to our patient population. Supporting the Nursing and Multi-disciplinary teams with the delivery of Quality Healthcare. Working as part of the practice multi-disciplinary team, you will be delivering care within your scope of practice to the patient population of this practice
The Healthcare Assistant will deliver and assist clinical staff in the provision of treatment, preventative care, health promotion and patient education whilst also ensuring all documentation is updated and correct as practice policy
Main duties of the job
The following are the core responsibilities of the Healthcare assistant. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
Undertake patient health checks
Support the practice nurse with health promotion programmes
Carry out baseline observations such as pulse rate and rhythm , blood pressure, temperature and saturations, recording findings accurately and reporting any concerns to a clinician
Facilitate routine and 24-hour BP monitoring, advising patients accordingly
Undertake wound care
Support the practice nurse with the management of chronic disease clinics
Carry out weight management checks as directed
Chaperone patients and gynae clinics as required
Perform venepuncture as per request
Carry out ECGs as requested and report results to a clinician
Ensure specimens are tested and recorded and ready for onward transportation
Provide support during minor procedures as required
Ensure all clinical rooms are adequately stocked and prepared for each session and expiry dates monitored of all stock
Ensure fridges are cleaned and monitored as per VMC policy
Ensure clinical waste is disposed of as per waste management policy and IPC guidelines
Participate in vaccination programmes
About us
About Victoria Medical Centre
We are now settled into our ultra-modern purpose-built premises post-merger - built in 2021. We are a training practice for Foundation doctors and GP trainees, with 30,000 patients, 33 consulting rooms, 2 operating suites and a private suite. We also have a training academy, daily training huddles, clinical meetings, an active PCN. A branch surgery and separate open access mental health hub in the Foundry, both located in the towns main shopping centre.
Our aim is to improve accessibility to healthcare, working with a variety of Health Care professionals within VMC and our Primary Care Network. If you would like to work in a modern GP Practice, enjoy working with technology and keen to improve the future of Healthcare, this is the role for you.
Benefits of working at Victoria Medical Centre:
Details
Date posted
30 June 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
A0838-25-0000
Job locations
Victoria Medical Centre
Victoria Drive
Eastbourne
East Sussex
BN20 8NH
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Full job description available upon request - main duties of the Heathcare Assistant position are detailed above.
Job responsibilities
Full job description available upon request - main duties of the Heathcare Assistant position are detailed above.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Clinical knowledge and skills
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Skills
Essential
Desirable
Personal Qualities
Essential
Clinical knowledge and skills
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Skills
Essential
Desirable
Personal Qualities
Essential
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
Victoria Medical Centre
Address
Victoria Medical Centre
Victoria Drive
Eastbourne
East Sussex
BN20 8NH
Employer's website
https://www.greenstreetclinic.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Victoria Medical Centre
Address
Victoria Medical Centre
Victoria Drive
Eastbourne
East Sussex
BN20 8NH
Employer's website
https://www.greenstreetclinic.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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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