# Crays PCN - Health Care Assistant

**Company**: Bromley GP Alliance Ltd
**Location**: St Pauls Cray
**Salary**: £13.17 to £14.05
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Crays Collaborative PCN is a network of 6 GP surgeries seeking an experienced, motivated, and flexible Healthcare Assistant (HCA) to support the delivery of high-quality care to housebound patients across Crays Primary Care Network (PCN).

The postholder will work collaboratively across 6 GP practices, providing both routine clinical care and support for PCN-led projects and initiatives. A significant element of the role will involve visiting housebound patients in their own homes to undertake clinical reviews, monitoring, health checks, and preventative care interventions, helping patients maintain their independence and improve their overall health and wellbeing.

**Main Duties of the Job**

The Healthcare Assistant (HCA) will support the delivery of high-quality care to housebound patients across Crays PCN, working flexibly across member practices and within patients' homes. The role will involve undertaking routine clinical procedures, supporting long-term condition management, delivering preventative healthcare interventions, and contributing to PCN service developments and projects.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Conducting home visits to housebound patients

- Supporting routine clinical care across PCN practices

- Undertaking wound care and dressing changes

- Removing sutures and clips

- Performing phlebotomy

- Carrying out NHS Health Checks

- Supporting Long-Term Condition (LTC) reviews

- Undertaking diabetic foot examinations

- Monitoring blood pressure and other clinical observations

- Administering Vitamin B12 injections (where competent and authorised)

**About Us**

BGPA is a federation of all 43 Bromley practices working collaboratively to enhance the health and wellbeing of Bromley residents, covering over 350,000 patients, 100% of the Bromley population.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £13.17 to £14.05 per hour dependent on experience

**Person Specification**

**Essential Skills:**

- Effective interpersonal skills to work one to one with patients

- Ability to communicate with healthcare professionals and patients

- Ability to deal with potentially challenging patients

- Effectiveness verbal and nonverbal communication skills dealing with face-to-face contact

- Good communication skills

- Ability to work within a team and independently

- Wound care

- Stitch/suture removal

- NHS Health Checks

- Long-Term Condition reviews

- Diabetic foot checks

- Blood pressure monitoring

- Administration of B12 injections

- Knowledge of safeguarding procedures

**Qualifications:**

- NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care (or equivalent experience)

- Care Certificate

- Phlebotomy competency

- Evidence of relevant clinical training

**Abilities:**

- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use

- Ability to travel independently across the PCN locality

- Flexible approach to working across multiple practice sites

**Experience:**

- Previous experience working as a Healthcare Assistant within General Practice, Community Services or Primary Care

- Experience undertaking phlebotomy

- Experience supporting patients with long-term conditions

- Experience of working independently within clinical protocols

- Experience of maintaining accurate clinical records

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## Skills

### Required
- wound care
- stitch/suture removal
- NHS Health Checks
- Long-Term Condition reviews
- diabetic foot checks
- blood pressure monitoring
- administration of B12 injections
- phlebotomy
- safeguarding procedures

### Nice to have
- basic IT knowledge
- excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively
- competent IT skills and use of clinical systems
- experience of working within a PCN
- experience supporting vulnerable or housebound patients
- experience using EMIS Web

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