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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.

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