Healthcare Assistant

Role: Healthcare Assistant Corporate Private GP

Location: Brighton

Full time: Part-Time 3 days per week 18.75 hours

Shift times: Monday, Thursday and Friday

Contract: Permanent

Salary – £27,222 to £31,500 depending on experience

About HCA UK Corporate Healthcare

HCA Healthcare UK is a leading provider of Corporate Healthcare services, delivering high-quality, personalised care directly within the workplace. We embed our clinical teams inside some of the UK’s most prestigious organisations including global banks, insurers, and professional services firms ensuring their employees have direct access to exceptional healthcare support. This role will be based onsite at one of our corporate clients in Brighton and will be part of a team which includes GP's, Psychologists and Physios

The Opportunity

We’re seeking an experienced Healthcare Assistant to join our Primary Care team at a high-profile corporate client site in Brighton. This is a rewarding role where you’ll provide health and wellbeing clinical care, and health screening assessments to employees, working closely with GPs, fellow nurses, and the client’s internal health and wellbeing teams. This is a unique opportunity to deliver impactful care, to a professional adult population, coaching and supporting their health and wellbeing, lifestyle choices in their fast-paced, high-performing working environment.

Additionally you’ll be part of HCA UK’s wider Primary Care network, benefiting from our clinical governance and support structures and wider HCA Hospital group, for onwards treatment and care if required.

What you'll do:

• This role focuses on delivering high-quality health assessments, wellbeing evaluations, and personalised lifestyle support directly onsite at one of our Corporate Clients. Under direction of the team lead guide patients in understanding lifestyle choices that impact their long-term health, including nutrition, physical activity, sleep quality, and stress management

• Carry out accurate and professional health checks as directed by the Health Screening Team Lead, this may include:

• Observations; temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, weight and height, urine output. Capillary blood testing (near-patient testing for cholesterol, blood glucose, and HbA1c). BMI, and waist-to-hip ratio measurements.

• Foster a collaborative approach where the patient is actively involved in planning and maintaining their own wellbeing journey.

• Promote preventative healthcare and encourage ongoing monitoring where appropriate.

• Educate patients on the meaning and implications of their health screening results in clear, accessible language.

What you'll bring

• Care Certificate

• Minimum Level 2 Safeguarding Course

• Previous Healthcare Assistant experience in a similar Corporate setting, or Primary Care setting, Hospital, or Health and Wellbeing clinic / services. 

• Confident in delivering both assessments and lifestyle behaviour change.

• Strong relationship building skills, ability to coach and influence appropriately.

Why HCA UK?

Originally founded over 50 years ago by Dr Thomas Frist, HCA has gone on to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers. In the UK, we’re one of the largest providers of privately funded healthcare and have invested over £500 million in the latest treatments, technology, techniques, medication and facilities. Being part of a large multisite, established healthcare group we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression through internal and external courses, as well as working conditions that prioritise both your mental and physical wellbeing. 

We believe that by caring for our employees, we empower them to provide exceptional care for our patients. That’s why we offer a host of flexible benefits that reflect the invaluable contribution they make every day. As a Senior Healthcare Assistant you’ll be eligible for:

• 25 days holiday each year (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with option to buy or sell leave to suit you

• Private Healthcare Insurance for treatment at our leading hospitals

• Private pension contribution which increases with length of service

• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme

• Group Life Assurance from day one

• Critical illness cover

• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay

• Corporate staff discount for all facilities including Maternity packages at The Portland

• Comprehensive range of flexible health, protection and lifestyle benefits to suit you

• Discounts with over 800 major retailers

Culture and values   

At HCA UK we believe exceptional care starts with our people. We celebrate the unique perspectives and different experiences each of us bring as we know that when you feel seen, heard and supported you can be at your best for our patients, and each other.   

Our mission is simple, above all else we’re committed to the care and improvement of human life, a clear statement that extends to both our patients and colleagues. To achieve this, we live and breathe four core values:   

• Unique and Individual: We recognise and value everyone as unique and individual  

• Kindness and compassion: We treat people with kindness and compassion  

• Honesty, integrity and fairness: - We act with absolute honesty, integrity and fairness  

• Loyalty, respect and dignity: We trust and treat one another as valued members of the HCA UK family with loyalty, respect and dignity  

Reasonable adjustments  

We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their full self to work and be afforded the same opportunities. As a Disability Confident committed organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to suit your needs as well as offer reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, and in the workplace, to anyone that needs them.  

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