# Enhanced Access HCA

**Company**: East End Health Network
**Location**: London
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Enhanced Access Healthcare Assistant plays a key role in supporting the delivery of safe, effective, and patient-centred healthcare services during evening and weekend clinics across the Primary Care Network.

Working under the supervision of GPs, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, the post holder will provide clinical and administrative support to help improve patient access to primary care services outside of core practice hours.

The HCA will undertake delegated clinical tasks such as taking observations, performing venepuncture, recording ECGs, supporting long-term condition monitoring, and assisting with health promotion activities, contribute to infection prevention and control, and accurately record information within the clinical system.

The role requires excellent communication and organisational skills, a compassionate approach to patient care, and the ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team across multiple practice sites.

**Main duties of the job**

- Undertake basic clinical procedures including observations, venepuncture, ECGs and health checks.

- Support clinicians in delivering Enhanced Access clinics and long-term condition reviews.

- Accurately record patient information in clinical systems.

- Promote patient health, wellbeing and self-care.

- Maintain high standards of infection control, confidentiality and patient safety.

- Escalate clinical concerns appropriately and work within own competence.

- Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team across PCN sites during evening and weekend sessions.

**Person Specification**

- Essential Criteria:

+ Care Certificate or equivalent healthcare qualification.   + Evidence of healthcare assistant training.   + Venepuncture competency (or willingness to undertake training).

- Desirable Criteria:

+ Previous experience working within GP practices or PCNs.   + Experience supporting chronic disease management clinics.   + NHS Health Check training.   + Knowledge of EMIS Web and/or SystmOne.   + Understanding of Enhanced Access service specifications.

**Additional Requirements**

- Ability to travel between Enhanced Access sites across the PCN where required.

- Commitment to ongoing professional development and mandatory training.

- Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and bank holidays in line with service needs.

## Skills

### Required
- venepuncture
- ECG
- health promotion
- infection control
- patient care
- communication
- organisational skills

### Nice to have
- NHS Health Check training
- EMIS Web
- SystmOne
- chronic disease management

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