Healthcare Assistant (HCA)

To provide nursing support to the Practice Nurse and General Practitioners to ensure the efficient and effective provision of the full range of nursing services to the patients of the practices with appropriate training. To work across all sites both in the North and South as required.

Assist with the preparation and cleaning of treatment rooms and treatment room equipment.

To maintain adequate clinical stock levels and medical stationery.

Main duties of the job

Health and Safety

To comply with the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.

To take responsibility for their own health and safety and that of other persons who may be affected by their own acts or omissions.

To undertake and be fully trained and conversant with fire regulations and health and safety and understand what to do in an emergency.

Equality and Diversity

To carry out at all times their responsibilities in line with Equal Opportunities Policy and Procedure.

Risk Management and Clinical Governance

To work within the Clinical Governance Framework of the practice, incorporating Risk Management and all other quality initiatives and all aspects of CQC implementation.

Confidentiality

To maintain confidentiality of information relating to patients, clients, staff and other users of the services in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 including outside of the work environment.Any breach of confidentiality may render an individual liable for dismissal and/or prosecution.

Safeguarding

Whilst in post, staff are expected to acquire and update their knowledge on safeguarding as per the intercollegiate document requirements and MMP policies.

Midlands Medical Partnership is a Birmingham super-partnership currently caring for 72,000 Birmingham Cross-City CCG patients across North and South Birmingham operating out of 11 sites. The partnership was established in April 2009 and continues to grow as a single integrated primary care provider, alongside collaborative working with other similar organisations in our region as part of its strategic forward view. The vision behind the creation of MMP is to improve and develop all that is excellent about traditional GP services local GPs leading and working in local surgeries to provide long-term doctor/patient relationships based on the established values of trust and personalised care, whilst at the same time being part of a larger, more corporate business structure, allowing our practices and patients to benefit from the resources of a larger organisation, enabling us to improve the range and quality of patient services, improve access and patient responsiveness and
improve learning across our organisation. MMPs core purpose is to work within a culture of quality to constantly improve the care and service we give our patients. This dynamic partnership with a team of over 250 clinicians and staff is managed by a single executive board, with centralised organisational functions, strong leadership and clinical governance structures.