Senior Healthcare Assistant

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES To work as a member of the Team supporting & chaperoning health care professionals during intimate examinations/ procedures Act as patient advocate at all times To undertake appropriate training to prepare the clinical area To facilitate the smooth operation of the clinical session. Call the patients through to the clinical room as agreed with the clinician conducting the clinic. Ensure that the patient is made to feel welcome. Prepare the patient for the consultation, examination and appropriate testing Following training and assessment, perform simple nursing procedures eg. urinalysis, height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and blood pressure (BP). Record findings, reporting the results to the health care professional in line with departmental policy Following training perform Frax and Q-risk assessments on HIV patients and highlight to the healthcare professional results accordingly. Following training and assessment undertake venepuncture on a daily basis Offer and support asymptomatic patients to undertake self-taken samples (swabs and urine) Following training and with support from senior colleagues provide support to the patients attending the clinics. (Information relating to their care/ tests taken/ results and follow up procedures) Ensure that all specimens are appropriately labelled Ensure safe storage and transportation of all specimens to the testing laboratory as per departmental polic