Health Care Assistant (HCA)
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 September 2025 |
| Location: | Dartford, DA1 1QY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A5072-25-0001 |
Summary
Phlebotomy is essential. The role can include other HCA patient tasks such as ECG, ABPM, wound care depending on training. HCA job is to deliver basic patient care recover, monitoring conditions of patients, screening and health prevention activities. A HCA works collaboratively with general practitioners to provide assessment, treatment, education, and care to all kinds of patients, ranging from infants to elderly people. Assessing and providing care to patients with uncomplicated wounds. Taking urine and blood samples Performing routine procedures like BP, Height and Weight, treating wounds, and applying or removing dressings is desirable. Providing advice or offering specialist information in areas like blood pressure, heart conditions, giving up smoking, weight control. Administering injections. Restocking and maintaining consulting and clinical areas. Taking accurate and comprehensible notes regarding patients consultations and treatments. Updating details about patients and their treatments in the clinical computer system.