Sexual Health Healthcare Assistant

Job Type:
Permanent
Job Sector:
Health, Medicine
Region:
West Midlands
Location:
Coventry
Salary:
£22,369.30 to £23,000 per annum
Salary Description:
£22,369.35 - £23,000
Posted:
02/10/2024
Recruiter:
HCRG Care Group
Job Ref:
HCRGCG/TP/25229/11930

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Sexual Health Healthcare Assistant to join our team at the Coventry and Warwickshire Sexual Health Hub. As a Healthcare Assistant, you will play a vital role in supporting the delivery of high-quality sexual health services to our diverse patient population. Your responsibilities will include conducting non-invasive clinical tasks, such as taking patient histories, processing samples, and offering valuable information and advice on sexual health matters. You will also be instrumental in maintaining patient confidentiality, ensuring a safe and respectful environment, and helping patients access appropriate care and treatment.

This is a full-time position requiring travel to various locations across Coventry and Warwickshire. A full UK driving licence and access to a car are essential for this role.
Package DescriptionAs a Healthcare Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team in Coventry.

You will feel valued as a Healthcare Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 


£22369.35 - £23,000 with group pension
Free tea and coffee at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main ResponsibilitiesAs a Healthcare Assistant you will:


Follow all policies and protocols pertaining to role, reporting any concerns or issues to lead nurses/administration manager
Provide first point of contact to patients assessed as requiring asymptomatic screening management
Undertake necessary tests including phlebotomy, urinalysis and instruction to patients regarding self- testing for STI
Assist with the correct collection and recording of specimens 
Offer advice and education to patients regarding safe sex practices and offer information regarding further help and advice
Perform condom demonstration to clients and understand the importance of education 
Perform pregnancy testing and urinalysis following instruction from Clinical colleagues
Assist Clinical staff as necessary including recording of blood pressure, height, weight and BMI.
Undertake chaperone training and be able to offer proactive chaperone skills with positive outcome for patients and colleagues


Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.
The Ideal CandidateThe ideal candidate will have / will be:


Qualified NVQ level 2 in Health & Social Care
Able to communicate effectively with patients, relatives and multi-disciplinary team
Able to provide individualised care and empathy
Able to demonstrate knowledge of equality and diversity
Able to demonstrate an awareness of the important of confidentiality / privacy and dignity
Able to plan and prioritise own workload
Recent experience of working in a patient setting or customer-facing

About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. 


Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

 

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.


As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.


Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy. 

Contact Details:
HCRG Care Group
Tel: 03002471111
Contact: Careers Team (NW)
Email:

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