Healthcare Assistant

Specific responsibilities subject to appropriate training and

supervision could include the following range.

General

1 To provide a professional service to our multilingual diverse

practice population using available resources including interpreters to aid

effective communication.

Clinical

1 New Patient Checks

2 Other Health Checks including blood pressure checks,

urinalysis and height/weight etc for different groups of patients

3 Lifestyle advice

including smoking cessation, weight management

4 Foot checks for Diabetic

patients

5 Phlebotomy

6 Flu/Pneumococcal

vaccinations

7 B12 injections

8 Stitch and clip removals

/ Simple dressings

9 ECGs

10 Maintain infection control

standards

Admin

1 Medical records

summarising

2 Call and recall letters

for nurse clinics

3 Ordering of stocks,

supplies and stationary

4 Monitoring of vaccines

and other drug stocks

5 Ordering health promotion

literature and organising displays

6 Carrying out other admin

duties that may be required

Other

1 Maintain confidentiality

at all times

2 Act as a chaperone, (after appropriate training), during intimate

examinations as and when necessary in line with the practice chaperone policy

documenting every occasion in the patients records using the practice

chaperone template.

3 Attend and participate in practice meetings and communicate

effectively outside of meetings

4 Maintain health and

safety at all times

Training

• 1 You will need to engage in ongoing training to learn the
• skills required of this developing role as well as mandatory training relevant
• to the practice team.
• Please note this job description could change as the needs of the
• practice and service changes.