Leuchars Medical CentreLeuchars Station St. Andrews Fife KY16 0JX
Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.
DPHC are looking for a dynamic, organised, and efficient Band 3 Healthcare Assistant who will be working within our team at the Medical Centre, Leuchars Station.
The successful candidate will provide an important service for patients (personnel and their dependants), carrying out procedures and supporting patients to live healthier lives. This role supports the strategy and mission statement for DPHC to ensure optimum health and well-being for patients and maximum deployability.
An important part of the service is clinical care including taking blood samples to be sent laboratory for testing, wound care, and health promotion. The Healthcare Assistant also supports the delivery of the service by providing some administrative support, such as ordering clinical supplies.
They will demonstrate safe care for patients within the medical facility (MF). They will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures.
Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:
Delivering a high standard of patient care as delegated by a registered practitioner, working within own competence and keeping up to date with relevant training highlighting any training needs or competency requirements to maintain role.
Supporting resupply administration functions within practice, maintaining medical stores, ordering stock and resupplying clinical areas. Ensuring practice equipment competencys and raise issues to the Practice Manager.
Providing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised patient care as delegated prioritising own workload and ensuring effective time management strategies are embedded in own practice.
Provision of a phlebotomy (blood-taking) service as requested by a registered practitioner.
Carrying out patient health checks, including health screening and measurements, and recording previous medical history, family history and current medications.
Maintaining accurate and contemporaneous records to relevant professional standards/guidelines.
Potential candidates should note that only applications submitted on the Civil Service Jobs website will be considered.Full details of the post can be found on the Civil Service Jobs website at:using reference 371211.
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