We are looking for Healthcare Assistants to join the team
The organisation actively promotes a healthy and safe working environment and ensures all staff adheres to organisation health and safety policies and procedures. All staff are supported to take responsibility for their own health and safety in the workplace, ensuring that all relevant documentation is completed accurately and within 24 hours.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

You’ll follow clinic policy and procedures, and work under direction and delegation of a registered health professional.
With knowledge, skills and understanding to carry out the duties in a caring and compassionate way.
Assist registered professionals by completing personal care and other activities that do not require specialist nursing knowledge, judgement or skill.
Improve utilisation of limited resources within the general practice, and patient care, education, and nurse-led clinics.

See more patients and pursue medical interests, and shorter waiting times for patients.

• Act as chaperone as required
• Manage patient recall system
• Quality Improvement tasks/auditing
• Stocktake, stock management and rotation
• Ordering supplies and medications (excluding vaccines and controlled medications)
• Maintaining/ordering small equipment and other supplies (excluding emergency medication/equipment)
• Whanau Ora referrals as requested
• Minor surgery setup, assist and clean up
• Surgical equipment sterilisation and stock management
• Maintaining the stocking of essential supplies in the Practice Nurse, Nurse Practitioner and General Practitioners exam rooms including the monitoring of the surgical trolley supplied
• Linen changes and ensuring the weekly/PRN collection of the laundry
• Interrelationship with the team and their roles
• Basic patient recordings – temperature, pulse, respiratory rate, blood pressure, urinalysis, height and weight – routine follow ups only – not for triage or initial assessment
• Complete basic administration tasks if required