Healthcare Assistant
Job Description
Job summary
About the Role
As a Healthcare Assistant, you will support the clinical team in delivering high-quality care and health interventions to service users. Working within a multidisciplinary environment, you will provide practical healthcare support, contribute to assessments and care planning, promote harm reduction, and help individuals improve their overall health and wellbeing. You will play an important role in ensuring service users receive safe, person-centred care while maintaining high standards of confidentiality, professionalism, and infection control.
Main duties of the job
- Support service user care plans, assessments, and clinical reviews.
- Undertake clinical procedures within your level of training and competency, including health observations, venepuncture, vaccinations, ECGs, and Fibroscans.
- Monitor and support community alcohol detoxification programmes.
- Deliver harm reduction advice, including overdose prevention, wound care awareness, and naloxone education.
- Support Hepatitis C testing and referrals for treatment.
- Conduct healthcare assessments for new and existing service users.
- Work across outreach services, needle and syringe programmes, and other community-based interventions.
- Maintain clean, safe clinical environments and follow infection prevention and control procedures.
- Accurately record service user information and maintain confidentiality at all times.
- Support clinical audits and contribute to continuous service improvement.
About us
About Waythrough
Waythrough was formed in 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Together, weve created one of the largest mental health and social support charities in England.
Every year, we support around 125,000 people through nearly 200 services and its all made possible by our 3,500 brilliant staff and volunteers.
Job responsibilities
About the Role
As a Healthcare Assistant, you will support the clinical team in delivering high-quality care and health interventions to service users. Working within a multidisciplinary environment, you will provide practical healthcare support, contribute to assessments and care planning, promote harm reduction, and help individuals improve their overall health and wellbeing. You will play an important role in ensuring service users receive safe, person-centred care while maintaining high standards of confidentiality, professionalism, and infection control.
Key Duties- Support service user care plans, assessments, and clinical reviews.
- Undertake clinical procedures within your level of training and competency, including health observations, venepuncture, vaccinations, ECGs, and Fibroscans.
- Monitor and support community alcohol detoxification programmes.
- Deliver harm reduction advice, including overdose prevention, wound care awareness, and naloxone education.
- Support Hepatitis C testing and referrals for treatment.
- Conduct healthcare assessments for new and existing service users.
- Work across outreach services, needle and syringe programmes, and other community-based interventions.
- Maintain clean, safe clinical environments and follow infection prevention and control procedures.
- Accurately record service user information and maintain confidentiality at all times.
- Support clinical audits and contribute to continuous service improvement.
Person Specification
About You
Essential
- You will ideally have:
- Maths and English qualifications.
- NVQ Level 2 in Health & Social Care (or equivalent).
- Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office.
- An understanding of confidentiality and data protection requirements.
- Knowledge of infection prevention and control principles.
- The ability to carry out delegated clinical procedures following training and competency assessment.
- Awareness of the challenges associated with drug and alcohol misuse and the impact on individuals and communities.
- Strong communication, organisational, and record-keeping skills.
- Desirable:
- Training in phlebotomy and vaccination administration.
- Experience using clinical databases or electronic patient record systems.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Waythrough
Address
Magdalene House
Grendon Road
Exeter
EX1 2NU
United Kingdom
