Vacancy - Health Care Assistant

The Role

As a Health Care Assistant at Frome Medical Practice, your primary job purpose is to support the delivery of high-quality clinical care as part of a multidisciplinary primary health care team.

The hours for this role are either:
25.5 Hours per week:
Monday 8am to 5pm
Thursday 8am to 5pm
Friday 8am to 5pm
30 min lunch breaks
Saturday hours are contractual overtime at a ratio of 12 occasions per annum x 4 hour shifts.
OR
22 Hours per week:
Monday 9am to 2.30pm
Wednesday 9am to 2.30pm
Thursday 9am to 2.30pm
Friday 9am to 2.30pm
Saturday hours are contractual overtime at a ratio of 12 occasions per annum x 4 hour shifts.

Main responsibilities

Your main responsibilities will include, but are not limited to;

• Conducting basic clinical procedures, such as
  • Blood samples, blood pressure, urine testing, ECGs, and INRs. 
  • Simple dressings and leg ulcer dressings including compression.
  • NHS health checks 
  • Diabetic foot checks
• Removal of sutures
• Maintaining accurate, objective, and timely health care records
• Actively participate in quality improvement projects
• Maintenance and calibration of equipment
• Maintaining stock when required

We have a supportive and collaborative team of over 20 GPs and 150 staff. We are a large and modern, purpose built practice with a patient population of just under 30,000 and operate as a single site Primary Care Network.

We are proud to have received National Awards for Sustainability and our Green Impact work and have also been nationally recognised for our outstanding Health Connections (social prescribing) programme, which is based within the practice. As a high-performing and successful practice we have been accepted to join the new PCN Pilot Programme working with NHSE which will also provide exciting opportunities to shape and develop clinical pathways.

The large number of GPs creates a collaborative and friendly atmosphere, and spending time together in daily coffee breaks, discussing cases in team meetings, and socialising is highly encouraged and ingrained in our work culture. This is supported by a dedicated complex care team which manages all home visits and hospital discharges, as well as nurse practitioners, a mental health nurse practitioner, a first contact physiotherapist, and a large dedicated pharmacy team.

Externally, we have strong relationships with our local community and local healthcare providers and are situated next to the local community hospital, where we collaborate in overseeing our community ward, as well as providing sessions for other local services such as fracture clinic.

We are a recognised Learning Organisation with a strong focus on GP Education and development which would be great support for a newly qualified GP.  We are also a GP Training practice where many of our registrars choose to stay on with us and benefit from our mentoring scheme.

We are a Disability Confident practice and registered Mindful Employer.

Benefits

• NHS pension available
• Free parking 
• NHS & local discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• In-house training
• Employee events
• Free eye test vouchers

Essential qualifications and experience:

Applications

Closing date for applications:  18 May 2025

Interview date: 27 May 2025

Apply online using our form