Job Description

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post



The Healthcare assistant role sits within the Community COPD team and will support the Matrons, Associate Matrons and Physiotherapists to assess and manage COPD patients as part of their ongoing care. They will also support the team Administrators in their role providing telephone response, urgent communication and diary management.



Job share with the band 3 healthcare assistant in post 2 days per week with administrative tasks and patient facing roles. Roles include measuring observations and managing a small caseload of patients, alongside supporting the physiotherapy team during the pulmonary rehabilitation sessions.



Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.



We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.



Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:



We're Kind



We're Fair



We Listen



We Care



To complete physical health observations, such as oxygen saturations weight and blood pressure

To complete home risk assessment for prospective oxygen patients

Picking up of microscopy samples and dropping to collection point

Using RIO (electronic system) to record and retrieve information on service users

Undertaking word processing for the provision of required reports, letters, summaries, etc. within the set standards

Respond to incoming calls and deal with enquiries in accordance with management procedures.

Undertake administrative duties to support clinicians.

Undertaking an assistant role in Pulmonary Rehabilitation classes to support clinicians.

Booking of appointments and maintaining clinicians' Rio diaries

Maintaining a database of team equipment and liaising with contractor for servicing