Healthcare Assistant

About Lakeside

LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest ‘true’ partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire. Joining our team presents an opportunity to be part of a large organisation that is changing the way primary care is delivered today.

Living and breathing our values at Lakeside Healthcare

Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do. We strive to ensure we connect and respond to all needs with compassion, care and respect to improve the lives and wellbeing of the communities we serve.

Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.

About the Practice

Lakeside St Neots is in a lovely town location with around 21,000 patients. We are a diverse and dynamic team of GPs, Pharmacists, Physios, Social Prescribers, Practice Nurses, Health Care Assistants, Nursing Associates, Emergency Care Practitioners and ANPs.

Job Introduction

We are looking for a Healthcare Assistant to join our team providing general practice services including; Phlebotomy, ECGs, wound care/simple dressings, Administering Injections such as Flu and Pneumonia, long term condition reviews, such as diabetes, asthma, NHS Health checks, INR clinics, Learning disabilities, smoking cessation etc.

The successful candidate will be highly motivated and enthusiastic in delivering high quality care to our patients.

Experience managing chronic disease reviews is essential.

Experience of using system one or similar system is desirable.

What you will do

All aspects of Healthcare assistant care, with potential to develop skills in line with the needs of the business and your personal interests

We are looking to upskill our team with appropriate skills in Chronic Disease management

Essential Criteria

• English and Maths at grade C or above
• Willingness to undertake training to enhance the team and services we offer to our patients
• Self-motivated and a good team player ability to priorities and organize workload with good time management.
• Previous primary care experience
• Experience of chronic disease reviews, diabetes, asthma
• HCA training or care certificate

What we offer you (Benefits)

• Generous holidays (additional long service entitlements)
• NHS pension and continuous service entitlements
• NHS Discounts (Blue light card)
• Development opportunities
• Great team environment
• Lakeside Healthcare is proud to be a Living Wage employer

Application process – candidate information

We encourage candidates to not delay their application as we retain the right to close the advert early should the volume of applications become very high.

We anticipate that shortlisting will commence one week after closing and will advise of interview arrangements if successful however this timeline is dependent on the number of applications.

We also aim to communicate with all candidates on the status of their application. If you require full job description and person spec this can be provided to you at interview, or you can contact our central HR team.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application stage or interview, please contact our central HR team (details can be found on our website www.lakesidehealthcare.co.uk)

Website

Please check out our website for everything you want to know about who we are.

https://www.lakesidestneots.co.uk/

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We value diversity and we're committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and to reach their full potential, and we actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, and cultures. We believe that a diverse workforce will help us to care for and support our patients and employees better. Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18 yrs. so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

Equal Opportunities

Lakeside Healthcare is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to ensuring that all our staff and job applicants are protected from unlawful discrimination. All employees and job applicants will be treated equally, fairly and with respect. We will endeavour, through appropriate training, to ensure that our hiring teams making selection and recruitment decisions will not discriminate, whether consciously or unconsciously, in making these decisions throughout our recruitment and selection processes and follow recognised industry best practice.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Store discount

Application question(s):

• Do you have the right to work in the UK? (Yes/No) – If you answered Yes you must be able to provide sufficient evidence upon interview.

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 21/04/2024