Healthcare Assistant
| Posting date: | 14 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £12.21 to £12.50 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £12.21 - £12.50 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 December 2025 |
| Location: | Ashford, TN27 0AW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A2922-25-0002 |
Summary
Main Responsibilities (according to training provided) To prepare consulting rooms, monitor, order and maintain clinical stock levels and manage stock rotation as agreed with the practice nurses. Health Checks Blood Pressure, Height, Weight, BMI Health screening of patients with Pre-Diabetes, undertaking Health checks, Blood glucose monitoring, venepuncture, and diabetic foot checks. ECGs Monitor fridge temperatures in accordance with practice policy Maintain necessary supplies in doctors rooms i.e. forms, specimen bottles etc. To test urine specimens using appropriate equipment, manage DART requests and record as requested Assist GPs and Nurses in providing minor-surgery sessions, coil fits and implanon insertions. Removal of stitches and support practice nurses in delivering wound management for patients with non-complex wound care To ensure that specimens brought in by patients or taken by doctors or nurses are ready for collection by the pathology service Phlebotomy