Job summary
- Main area
- Primary Care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 363-PC6422344
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingsway and Bramingham Medical Centre
- Town
- Luton
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2024 23:59
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Health Care Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 3
Our Primary Care Offer
What matters to our primary care team at ELFT is delivering care to our patients in partnership with both our patients and the other organisations we work with. By doing this we are able to provide high quality care that is easy to access; the care we would want for the people we love. We are working with our patients, our teams and our partner organisations to transform our services so that they not only do a great job now but also long into the future. To achieve this we work differently, try new things and constantly learn and evolve.
The primary care services we provide vary from specialist services, providing care to vulnerable and homeless populations, to more mainstream general practice and we work across East London and Bedfordshire. The Long Term Plan sets out a vision for primary care to lead on population health improvement and we work in partnership with mental health, community services, acute services, social care, the voluntary sector and ambulance services to help our local populations stay well.
Working As A Team
We are always looking to find people who share our passion for providing the kind of care we would want for the people we love. We also want to find talented people who want to work as part of a diverse team, provide leadership and try new things. The role of clinicians and administrators in primary care is evolving, as a part of our primary care team you will use your skills to help contribute to peoples care. Any job in primary care is a challenging job and for our teams to work together our GP’s, nurses, allied health professionals and our administrators all need a system designed to support everyone, so that we can do the best for our patients.
About ELFT
ELFT has been recognised as a centre of excellence for Primary Care and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Our primary care directorate team are developing and working on several exciting new concepts to strengthen and provide resilience to general practice. Tackling health inequalities, involving patients, using quality improvement and being a ‘good neighbour’ to the other organisations we work with are all part of how we work every day. The successful candidate will be part of a team helping to achieve our aim to improve the lives of those we serve.
We invest in our people and have two key areas of focus- the well-being of the people we work with and developing our team. Our dedicated well-being champion and our primary care skills academy help us to achieve our aims of having a happy team that feel cared for, respected and included.
Job overview
East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) provides a wide range of mental health, community and primary care services across East London, Outer North East London, Bedfordshire and Luton. The trust has an overarching vision to improve the quality of life for all we serve by focusing our efforts on improving population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and value. The trust has been rated outstanding by CQC and as a trust we do everything we can to embody our values of 'we care, we respect, we are inclusive'. ELFT's vision to improve the quality of life for all those we serve has drawn us into new areas of work, including primary care. As we move forwards to provide more primary care services it is an exciting time to be part of truly transformational change across the whole health and care system. As part of the new primary care directorate within ELFT our team will be involved in leading triple aim population health quality improvement work. Quality of care is our top priority. It is at the forefront of all that we do and is firmly embodied in our mission to provide the highest quality primary, community and mental health care in England by 2020. Being the best requires continual improvement- always seeking to do things better. Sometimes it involves fundamental change in the way things are done, with everyone working together sharing the same passion and commitment.
Main duties of the job
- Under the direction of the Practice Nurses and ACPs, undertake basic nursing and technical tasks to provide a comprehensive nursing service for Practice patients.
- Liaise with the Diabetic Team and be responsible for the administration of diabetic care plans.
- To provide a phlebotomy service for the practice population
- Undertake routine diagnostic nursing tasks such as, ECGs, blood pressure checks, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, blood glucose monitoring, routine heights, weights and urinalysis
- Undertake spirometry (if trained to do so)
- Use patient contacts as opportunities to promote health education, including education on practice systems such as obtaining a blood result.
- Participate in health promotion projects such as No Smoking Day
- Take responsibility for the administration of diabetic care planning, coordinating patient results and clinical observations and ensuring the care plan is sent to the patient in time for their annual review
- To participate and administer the NHS Health Check Programme
- Provide vaccination to relevant cohorts (if trained to do so)
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The organisation and delivery of primary care services in ELFT is being re-visioned to reflect an aspiration to deliver services in a more integrated manner in collaboration with internal and external partners. To this end the portfolio of primary care services provided directly by the Trust is expanding and the model of service delivery is changing to include more direct participation of service users. Directly provided primary care services range from specialist homeless practices to mainstream general practices and are located across a wide and diverse geography including London, Bedfordshire and Luton.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Healthcare Qualification (e.g. BTEC, NVQ)
- Phlebotomy Qualification
Desirable criteria
- Additional training in long term conditions
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to perform phlebotomy
- Ability to perform ECGs
- Ability to perform foot checks, BMI and BP checks
- Experience working in Primary Care recently
Desirable criteria
- Ability to perform spirometry
- Experience in assisting with minor ops/LARC fittings
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Commitment to working in primary care
- Good IT skills
- Good interpersonal skills
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Christina Guevara
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Nursing and AHPs
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07879 801806
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