Health Care Assistant

Modality Partnership Birmingham Division has a full-time vacancy for a Health Care Assistant at Hillcrest Surgery. The postholder will be a high performing HCA, working across Modality Birmingham Division. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.

This job is suitable for individuals who enjoy interacting with patients, delivering high quality patient care, and look forward to working closely with the nursing team and wider practice team.

The job is not suitable to people who are not resilient to working in a fast-paced environment, working flexibly in line with ever changing demands in Primary Care and the wider NHS.

As an employee with us you can benefit from:

· Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme

· Minimum 27 days annual leave, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata

· Employee discounts and benefits scheme

· Employee assistance programme (EAP)

· Education and career pathways

If you are interested in learning more, please read on.

Please Note: The Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time during the advertising period.

Main duties of the job

This is a hands-on patient facing role; we are seeking individuals to join our team who are caring, compassionate and confident, who demonstrate effective communication, excellent customer service skills, good IT skills and the ability to support patients with interventions and/or queries. The postholder will be a key member of the practice team, responsible for undertaking patient health checks inc. BP / ECG monitoring / height and weight, taking blood samples, health and wellbeing advice and promotion.

Overview of your organisation

We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly within the healthcare team and support us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of skills in primary care with career advancing opportunities.

Job Description

Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.

You will love this job if you are seeking career development opportunities that can help you grow and build your nursing career. you have a passion for supporting patients by promoting health and well-being within the practice population, and you are able to carry out all relevant tests required to ensure patients such as those with long term conditions, or those that require tests as part of other medical conditions or referrals are supported.

You will not enjoy this job if you do not work well working as part of a wider multidisciplinary team of established practice nurses.

If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.

As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.

*PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL APPLICANT WHO ARE INVITED TO AN INTERVIEW WILL NEED TO PROVE THEIR RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK AT INTERVIEW STAGE*

Person Specification: What are the minimum requirements all candidates need to meet?

Qualifications and Experience:

We require high performing team members to join our team with:

Knowledge and experience

· Working in a primary or secondary care setting

· Data input, Information gathering, Confidentiality

Essential Criteria-

· Recent previous experience in direct patient care.

· Phlebotomy skills

· Proficient in Blood pressure monitoring

· Urine testing

· Excellent communication skills

· Ability to follow guidelines and protocols.

Preferable Criteria

· ECG recording

· EMIS / SYSTEM1 proficient

· Suture/staple removal

· Wound care

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: From £9.52 per hour

Benefits:

• Cycle to work scheme
• Sick pay
• Wellness programme

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Birmingham, B44 0NN: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Healthcare: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 24/02/2023