Healthcare Assistant

Would you like to join our friendly and resolute team of clinicians and non-clinicians at a large NHS general practice based in Slough, Berkshire?

We are seeking to appoint one fully trained
, motivated and enthusiastic Healthcare Assistant with excellent customer care experience to join our Clinical team within the practice. Healthcare Assistants report directly to one of our Partners. We offer, plus your salary, a good benefits package,as well as the opportunity to work in a supportive and collaborative environment with a diverse committed workforce from different ethnicbackgrounds ensuring the quality of our services to our patients are to a high standard.

The successful candidate will be an integratedmember of the Clinical and Clinical Administration Team of thirty staff, supporting the clinicians who work in partnership andour patients by conducting clinical support tasks, infection control tasks,restocking and stock rotation. The successful candidate will be based at Farnham Road Practice but would be expected totravel to our other three practices within Slough. The job description, person specification, and benefit package summary for the role areattached.

To perform the following tasks safely and efficiently working within agreed protocols.

• Venepuncture
• Ear Syringing
• Removal of sutures andclips
• ECGs
• Urine testing
• Blood pressuremeasurement and monitoring
• Follow up dressings
• Assist with setting upfor minor surgery procedures including dermatology, IUD insertion, removal,Implanon insertion and removal, and minor operations.
• Give advice on health promotion including new patient health checks for patients with long term conditions.
• Maintain accurate stock records, including liaison with Practice Nurse Team Leads by completing logs ofstock.

Farnham Road Medical Group (FRMG) started as one Practice with two sites and has grown over the years into an outstanding group of three training GP practices that are approved by Health Education England. With four clinical sites based in Slough,we now have a team of over 100 people looking after 38,730 patients. The practice is committed to innovation in providing high-quality health care forour patients and a protected working and learning environment for our staff.

Our team includes pharmacists, nurses, physician associates, paramedics, MSKpractitioners, Mental Health Practitioners, managers, social prescribers, andcare coordinators as well as GPs and a large Patient Services team. Thisresolute team provides an evolving healthcare and medical service to meet thevarying needs of our patients and, in turn, provides what we believe is asustainable model of modern General Practice. We have expanded our expertise and have transformed how we provide medical services to try to ensure we meetthe demands of Sloughs diverse population.

Our vision is simple:
Putting Patients First and providing services thattailor to their needs, which we strive to achieve through brilliant leadership,mentoring, teamwork, communication, problem sharing and solving, support,integrity, fun, training, education, and continued development.

To perform the following tasks safely & efficiently working within agreed protocols.

• Venepuncture
• Ear Syringing
• Removal of sutures & clips
• ECGs
• Urine testing
• Blood pressure measurement and monitoring
• Follow up dressings
• Arrange the lending of & teaching patients how to use home & 24hour blood pressure machines.
• Assist with setting up for minor surgery procedures including dermatology, IUD insertion and removal and implanon insertion and removal and minor ops.
• Teaching of inhaler technique.
• Assisting with annual diabetic reviews.
• Giving advice on health promotion including new patient health checks for patients with long term conditions.
• Act on yellow flag reminders where appropriate.
• Assisting with the recall of patients for review.
• Computerisation of letters & notes.
• Stock checks and reordering stock on a weekly basis.
• Record fridge temperatures and promptly report temperature variation from standard.
• Check stock in all clinical rooms as agreed.
• Order replacement stock and restock clinical rooms by liaising with Admin team.
• Maintain accurate stock records, including liaison with Practice Nurse Team Leaders by completing logs of stock .
• Sterilise the ear syringe monthly using a Milton tablet & record in the log book.

Recognise and work within own competence and in accordance with the national and local guidelines Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines
• Reporting on Significant Events
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records on EMIS Web.
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and SNOMED-coding patient data
• Participate in…