NHS Jobs
Job role: Healthcare Support Worker
Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 348-CSS-12743
We also recommend: Staff Nurse needed at NHS Jobs
About the Job:
- Collect and process a variety of specimens.
- Perform venepuncture
- Undertake basic observations of patients, including blood pressure.
- Manage asymptomatic patients.
- Able to assist the clinician during IUD fittings
- Processes routine samples by labeling, recording, and storing appropriately
- Performs light microscopy for sexually transmitted infections
- Maintains stock levels and orders stock as necessary
- Travels to spoke clinics or other locations within sexual health
- Administrative duties as required, including reception tasks
- Develop rapport with patients and treat all patients, carers, and staff with dignity and respect
- Frequently use interpersonal and communication skills to de-escalate and reduce aggressive behavior if encountered from patients and carers
- Implement agreed standards of care provision in line with local Ward/Unit/community and Trust policies; adhere to all Trust Policies and Procedures
- Be aware of your own limitations, seek support when the need arises, and maintain professional boundaries at all times
- Act as patients’ chaperone, when required, for doctors and nurses during examinations and procedures, providing privacy and dignity
- Observe patients’ right to confidentiality, specifically in relation to contraception & sexual health
- Aware of the specific confidentiality rights of patients aged under 18 attending the service
To apply for this job please visit beta.jobs.nhs.uk.
