Healthcare Assistant - Apprenticeship Opportunity

About the role

Ready to kickstart your career in healthcare and make a real difference? 🚀 We're on the lookout for a super enthusiastic and compassionate Healthcare Assistant to join our awesome Health & Wellbeing Service! This is your chance to get involved in delivering top-notch physical healthcare in community clinics and help people smash their health and wellbeing goals. 🌟

You'll be a key part of a supportive team, getting hands-on with clinical tasks like taking blood (phlebotomy 💉), recording ECGs ⚡, and monitoring physical health, all under the guidance of experienced professionals. If you're keen on clinical work, love interacting with people, have a way with words 🗣️, and are all about providing safe, patient-focused care, this is the role for you!

✨ Apprentice Opportunity Alert! ✨

This position comes with a fantastic opportunity to complete a Level 3 apprenticeship qualification relevant to your role! As an RDaSH apprentice, you'll gain invaluable experience, learn essential work skills, and get all the tools you need to absolutely thrive. 🛠️ Your apprenticeship will include regular training with a college or training organisation, with about 20% of your working hours dedicated to learning and studying, leading to a nationally recognised qualification. Whether you're new to the NHS or already part of our team, apprenticeships are a brilliant way to build the skills and knowledge for a successful and rewarding career in health. 💯

What you'll be doing:

• Running venepuncture (phlebotomy) clinics safely and following all procedures. 🩸
• Accurately performing and recording 12-lead ECGs. 📈
• Completing and recording routine physical health observations. ✅
• Assisting with physical health assessments and health screening programmes. 📋
• Making patients feel welcome, preparing them, and supporting them during their visits to our clinics. 🤗
• Ensuring specimens are labelled, documented, and transported correctly. 📦
• Keeping patient records up-to-date using our electronic systems. 💻
• Managing and restocking clinic supplies. 📦
• Upholding the highest standards of infection prevention and control. 🧼
• Raising any concerns about patient health, safety, or wellbeing according to Trust procedures. 🚨
• Supporting individuals with mental health challenges with respect and dignity. 🙏
• Building positive relationships with service users, their families, and carers. ❤️
• Spotting signs of mental health distress, relapse, or worsening conditions and escalating concerns appropriately. 🧠
• Helping individuals stick to treatment plans, physical health monitoring, and wellbeing interventions. 🏃‍♀️
• Contributing to risk assessments by reporting your observations to registered staff. 📝
• Championing social inclusion, independence, and self-management where suitable. 🌻
• Supporting service users who might be experiencing anxiety, depression, severe mental illness, or emotional distress during clinic visits. 🎗️
• Showing you understand stigma and how mental illness can impact physical health. 💡

Before you apply: Please check out the attached job description and person specification for all the juicy details! 🤓

Apprentice Applicants: If you're applying via the apprenticeship route, please review the attached eligibility document to make sure you meet the requirements. ✅

We might close this vacancy early if we get a lot of applications, so don't wait too long! ⏳

Key responsibilities

• Undertake venepuncture (phlebotomy) clinics following Trust policies and procedures.
• Perform and accurately record 12-lead ECGs.
• Complete and record routine physical health observations.
• Support physical health assessments and health screening programmes.
• Welcome, prepare and support patients attending Health & Wellbeing clinics.

Entry requirements

Essential qualifications (Essential English and Maths at level 2 or equivalent (GCSE 9-4 or A*- C or functional skills level 2) NVQ Level 2 in a related subject NVQ level 3 in related subject or willingness to undertake a relevant Level 3 Apprenticeship)

Skills