NHS Jobs
Job role: Healthcare Assistant
Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 448-AMB-8310510
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About the Job:
- To welcome patients and obtain relevant personal and clinical details as appropriate, treating all such information as confidential.
- Following training, and once signed off as competent, to act as a chaperone and assist nurses/doctors to undertake intimate examinations/procedures and/or sexual health screening on patients.
- Following training, provide a phlebotomy service for patients attending the services.
- To undertake non-clinical duties in support of the admin team, for example, undertake call taking and reception cover, including 0300 number answering, registering patients and booking, support data collection and/or general patient and non-patient administration.
- Following training, undertake, read, and interpret microscopy slides as directed by clinicians and appropriately document and communicate the associated findings, if required by the clinical service.
- To be non-judgmental to all client groups regardless of age/ethnicity/religion.
- Where local services require it, following training and sign-off, provide a service for asymptomatic patients requesting a routine sexual health screen.
- Following training and being deemed competent to do so, administer prescribed vaccines in accordance with service guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures, if required by the clinical service.
- Hold the Care Certificate and deliver the associated standards of care or undertake the training at the earliest opportunity upon recruitment to post.
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