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Health Care Assistant IV Therapy Team | Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 08 July 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £24,625 - £25,674 PA
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 07 August 2025
Location: Bolton, BL2 6NT
Company: Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 7257764/241-327-IC-25

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Summary


Band 3 Health Care Assistant, working with IV Therapy Team.

Successful candidate would be based at Breightmet Health Centre ( subject to change), clinics are based at Breightmet Health Centre, however, domiciliary visits are across the borough of Bolton, therefore successful candidate must have access to their own transport.

Venepuncture - in clinic and domiciliary visits

Clinic - Assisting with clinic, general duties within clinic setting, running bloods and weights clinic

Admin - assisting with admin where required

Stock - ordering stock and maintaining stock levels

Collecting medication from hospital, either taking to patients homes or returning to Breightmet Health Centre

Taking bloods to hospital

You will work in partnership with patients, carers and other health and social care agencies to promote independence and develop individual plans of care relevant to patient need within their limitations to practice



We value regular appraisal and supervision and ensure personal and professional development opportunities are available. Candidates will need to be able to travel to meet the needs of this post and will therefore need access to a vehicle for work.

You are encouraged to maintain your Covid vaccination status unless medically exempt and will be supported to access information and guidance, to inform decisions that supports vaccine confidence, protects yourself and patients.

Assist registered staff in clinic – bring patients to and from waiting are perform and accurately record patient observations, provide patient with refreshments, cleaning down of equipment between patient

Performing venepuncture either within clinic setting and domiciliary visits

· Communicate effectively with all patients and their relatives

Communicate with team members and feeding back to coordinator to ensure coordinated care, this may also include the wider MDT ( eg, haematology, gastroenterology, AAT)

Stock management – maintaining adequate stock levels, ordering stock via NHS supplies and Integra ordering systems.



· Assist with admin where necessary, in particular, during annual leave of team admin (LE2, CIVICA, preparation of notes, preparation for clinic)



· To provide support to the team leader, team coordinator, and other members of the team as appropriate and necessary. This will include supporting the flow of discharge from hospital to the IV Team, this may include printing of notes in absence of admin, stock equipment for new patient visit

Collection of medication from pharmacy, either to be brought back to base or delivered at patients home

· Documentation – effectively documenting patients notes, and updating of clinic records

To support the daily running’s of the team but to work only within scope of practice at all times

To provide support Admission Avoidance team where necessary through collaborative working


This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Jul 2025

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