# Health Care Assistant

**Company**: Woodcote Medical
**Location**: Purley, Surrey
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: Depending on experience
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for a friendly, experienced, and confident Health Care Assistant to join our supportive and welcoming GP practice on a part-time basis for 18 hours per week.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 1 year's experience in a GP surgery environment.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Undertake phlebotomy (blood samples)

- Carry out NHS health checks

- Administer vaccinations and injections

- Carry out observations such as pulse oximetry, blood pressure, temperature, and pulse rate, recording findings accurately

- Carry out ECGs as requested

- Carry out BMI checks

- Undertake diabetes pre-checks

- Ensure specimens are recorded and ready for onward transportation

- Act as a chaperone as required

- Provide support during minor operations and coil clinics as required

- Ensure all clinical rooms are adequately stocked and prepared for each session

- Ordering clinical supplies as necessary

- Ensure clinical waste is removed from clinical areas and sharps bins replaced in accordance with the organisation's IPC policy

- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate

- Work effectively as part of the wider multidisciplinary practice team.

**Person Specification:**

- Minimum 1 year's experience working as a Health Care Assistant in a GP surgery or similar healthcare setting

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage a busy workload

- A caring and empathetic approach to patient care

- Willingness to work across both branches (Purley and Coulsdon) as required.

**Qualifications:**

- Relevant healthcare qualifications (e.g., Care Certificate / NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care)

**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.

## Skills

### Required
- phlebotomy
- NHS health checks
- vaccinations
- injections
- pulse oximetry
- blood pressure
- ECGs
- BMI checks
- diabetes pre-checks

### Nice to have
- proficient in phlebotomy
- administering vaccinations
- conducting health checks

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