Health Care Assistant

Job Description

Perform Phlebotomy duties including INRs

Perform and record biometric measurements ( BP readings,

pulse rate and rhythm, temperature, height, weight)

Provide NHS Health Checks in accordance with the service

specification

Perform ECGs

• Administer Flu, Pneumococcal and B12 vaccines
• Assist GP during Minor Surgery
• Perform basic dressing changes
• Undertake home visits as appropriate to competence
• adhere to infection control guidelines
• assist with womens health clinics and minor surgery as
• required

While seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow

us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other

matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will

respect their privacy and act appropriately.

In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job

Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information

relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare

workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a

business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded

as strictly confidential.

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other

healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to

authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures

relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.