Health Care Assistant
| Posting date: | 31 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £14.10 to £14.75 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £14.10 - £14.75 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 May 2026 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX4 1XD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A3856-26-0003 |
Summary
Professional/Clinical: Assess problems presented opportunistically by patients. Provide a safe, high quality and accessible phlebotomy service to the practice population. Blood pressure monitoring. Health prevention screening such as NHS Health Checks. Diabetes assessments. Processing of urine samples. Properly label, store, and prepare specimens for laboratory testing and transportation. ECG recordings. Assist with patient wound dressing and provide wound management advise. Assist with clerical duties, such as scheduling appointments and updating patient records. Ensure infection control guidelines are maintained. Communicate effectively with other members of the primary health care team. Preserve confidentiality. Any other duties considered relevant to the post. Managerial: Assist patients to identify their health needs. Responsible for the maintenance of equipment and stock control. Manage and organise individual patient consultations. Attend staff meetings. Effectively manage own time, workload and resources. Preserve confidentiality of information gained at all times. Educational: Identify personal development and training needs in conjunction with the Nurse Manager. Participate in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and or professional development. Health and Safety: The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include: Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines. Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks. Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards. Reporting potential risks identified. Equality and Diversity: The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include: Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation. Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues. Behaving in a manner which is welcoming of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights. Confidentiality: The post holder must maintain confidentiality of information in accordance with professional and PML policy. The post holder may access information only on a need-to-know basis in the direct discharge of duties and divulge information only in the proper course of duties. Safeguarding: To recognise that promoting the welfare and safeguarding children, young people and adults is everyone's business and access training and supervision as appropriate to the role. To support the organisation in ensuring service users are protected from abuse or the risk of abuse and their human rights are respected and upheld. To ensure concerns are responded to appropriately in line with the organisations Safeguarding Adults Policy and the Child Protection Policy and interagency safeguarding procedures. Personal/Professional Development: The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include: Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development. This may mean study in staff members own time. Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work. This job description seeks to outline the key duties and responsibilities of the post holder and is not a definitive document and does not form part of the main statement of terms and conditions. This job will be reviewed periodically, and changes may be made in consultation with the post-holder.