Health Care Assistant

Overview

Join the Health Care Assistant role at TieTalent with Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership, a collaborative delivery of substance use treatment and recovery services across Lincolnshire by Turning Point, Framework and Double Impact. The partnership combines Turning Point’s national experience with Double Impact’s lived experience and Framework’s expertise supporting service users with complex issues. The Recovery First model underpins everything, with lived experience recovery fully integrated and visible throughout. Lincolnshire residents benefit from a highly integrated and localised approach supporting multiple issues across the county. As a Health Care Assistant, you will help develop personal, flexible and realistic support and care packages to help people turn things around. A tailored induction and training package dependent on your experience will be offered.Responsibilities

To support and undertake substance misuse interventions and clinical procedures where trained, including triage assessments and screenings, urine analysis, healthy living assessments, physical observations, blood borne virus screening, ECG recording and venepuncture where necessary (with appropriate training).Ensuring appropriate entries are made on patients\'' computerised medical records.Undertake administrative tasks for example, clinical audit data collection, clinical intervention appointment scheduling and pro-active treatment engagement contact attempts.Supporting stock usage and stock control management.Monitoring fridge temperatures and fridge logs and taking action when appropriate.Recording in Controlled Drugs (CDs) registers and taking appropriate action when required.Maintaining equipment and dispensing areas and ensuring they are kept in a clean and orderly manner.Support the provision of opiate and alcohol detoxifications, undertaking physical detox observations including BP and reporting any concerns to the health and wellbeing nurse or nurse prescriber/medic.Supporting and assisting the delivery of nurse health and wellbeing and prescribing clinics.Supporting and assisting the delivery of needle exchange and harm reduction services.Participating in the safe and secure storage of medicines in accordance with all medicines legislation, Turning Point SOPs and Turning Point policies.Reporting critical incidents using DATIX.Participating in late, weekend and statutory holiday rotas and extended hours as required.Qualifications

Essential: NVQ Level 3 or equivalent.Excellent interpersonal skills at all levels to engage, build relationships and influence colleagues and service users.Demonstrable experience of working effectively within a multi-professional healthcare team.Plain English skills – both verbal and written.Ability to tailor messages to the audience and convey clinical assessment information to wider staff.Ability to deliver against agreed objectives and targets.Ability to communicate effectively with community and prison colleagues using a variety of mediums.Demonstrates commitment to improving quality of service to service users and understanding of confidentiality.Understanding of safeguarding procedures and knowledge of medicines legislation related to medicines usage.Recognises barriers to understanding, particularly within patient groups.Ability to utilise medical equipment to gather physical observations and convey these to clinical staff (e.g., blood pressure).Must hold a full driving licence and be able to travel across multiple locations as required.Benefits

25 days’ paid holiday a year plus Bank Holidays, increasing with service length up to 27 days plus Bank Holidays. Option to buy additional holidays.Details of comprehensive benefits available via Turning Point Benefits.Attachments

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