iCaSH Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon - Healthcare Assistant 30hrs per week (0.8wte)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, committed and experienced Healthcare Assistant to provide high quality services to the community who use the Integrated Contraception and Sexual Health (iCaSH) services across Cambridgeshire. You will be based at our site in Huntingdon.

You have, ‘front of house’, experience, with a demonstrable ability to develop a warm and welcoming rapport with people who use our services.

You have a keen eye for detail and have an understanding of the sensitivity and confidentiality involved in the delivery of a contraception, sexual health and HIV service.

You are required to hold a Care Certificate qualification, be trained to provide both phlebotomy, microscopy and chaperone duties, or demonstrate a willingness to undertake training.

Working Pattern

• On a rota - Mon/Tue/Wed/Thurs - 8.30am to 6pm

Responsibilities

• To welcome patients and obtain relevant personal and clinical details as appropriate treating all such information as confidential.
• Following training, and once signed off as competent, to act as a chaperone and assist nurses/doctors to undertake intimate examinations/procedures and or sexual health screening on patients.
• Following training, provide a phlebotomy service for patients attending the services.
• To undertake non-clinical duties in support of the admin team, for example undertake call taking and reception cover including 0300 number answering, registering patients and booking, support data collection and or general patient and non-patient administration.
• Following training, undertake, read and interpret microscopy slides as directed by clinicians and appropriately document and communicate the associated findings, if required by the clinical service.
• To be non-judgemental to all client groups regardless of age/ethnicity/religion.
• Where local services require and following training and sign off, provide a service for asymptomatic patients requesting a routine sexual health screen.
• Following training and being deemed competent to do so, to administer prescribed vaccines in accordance with service guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures, if required by the clinical service.
• Hold the Care Certificate and deliver the associated standards of care or undertake the training at the earliest opportunity upon recruitment to post.