# Healthcare Assistant

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Asplands Medical Centre.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthcare-assistant/955d4ee4-0512-4bb0-884a-b3fb09923291
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/healthcare-assistant/955d4ee4-0512-4bb0-884a-b3fb09923291.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Asplands Medical Centre
- **Location:** Asplands Close, Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes, MK17 8QP, United Kingdom; Eleanor Close, Woburn, Milton Keynes, MK17 9QU, United Kingdom
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Healthcare assistant
- **Salary:** Negotiable
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part-time
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-09T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26T12:30:23.800Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A0444-26-0004
- **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/application/A0444-26-0004/pre-application-questions-pause?referrer=jobadvert&ref=A0444-26-0004
- **Employer website:** https://www.asplandsmedicalcentre.co.uk

## Job Content

### Job summary

PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU HAVE APPLIED PREVIOUSLYWe are looking for an experienced HCA to join our team for 14 hours per week, ideally working on a Wednesday, thursday, Friday.

The role of the HCA is an essential part of our GP Practice team who work as a multidisciplinary team to provide a full range of Primary Medical Services.

You will be working alongside our friendly and patient focused nursing team in the delivery of nursing services, delivering care within your scope of practice to the patient population. The healthcare assistant will deliver and assist clinical staff in the provision of treatment, preventative care, health promotion and patient education.

### Main duties of the job

The main responsibilities for our HCA team is to support the practice team in providing:

- Wound care - some complex so experience is a must with leg ulcers and complex wounds
- Phlebotomy
- Long Term Condition management - mainly diabetes checks so evidence of training in foot checks is a must
- Health promotion and NHS Healthchecks
- Vaccinations - ideally has attended the 2 day immunisation training and is competent
- recording of medical observations

this list is an example and not exhaustive

### About us

Asplands Medical Centre is a semi-rural surgery on the edge of Milton Keynes with a branch surgery in Woburn. We value both our patients and our staff, offering high quality care and support to patients. This has been rewarded by our patients voting us in the top two practices in Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire.

We work with two other practices from Milton Keynes to form Ascent PCN where we have a shared vision to give the best care we can to our patients and help them to create healthy lifestyles.

### Details

- Date posted: 26 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: Depending on experience
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: A0444-26-0004
- Job locations: Asplands Close, Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes, MK17 8QP, United Kingdom, Asplands Close, Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes, MK17 8QP, United Kingdom, Eleanor Close, Woburn, Milton Keynes, MK17 9QU, United Kingdom

### Job responsibilities

The role of HCA involves:

- Phlebotomy
- ECG recording
- Performing routine and opportunistic BP checks, height, weight, BMI & urinalysis
- Undertake NHS Healthchecks
- Basic wound management including dressings and removal of stitches and clips.
- Provide adult vaccinations including influenza, covid, shingles and pneumococcal.
- support practice nurses in providing services for patients with long term conditions including diabetes and foot checks, CVD, mental Health and Learning Disability Health Checks.
- Support the practice nurse with health promotion programmes with the opportunity to be involved in group consultations.
- Stock ordering.

The role will include home visits.

A more experienced HCA will also be involved with:

- Doppler assessment.
- Chronic wound management including leg ulcers
- INR Star monitoring
- Spirometry

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience in a primary care setting.
- Experience of NHS Health checks.
- Trained in phlebotomy.
- Ability to read and record essential readings such as BP, weight and height.
- Experience and ability to dress basic wounds and remove stitches and clips.
- Experience of Chronic wound management.
- Access to a car for home visits.

**Desirable**

- Experience in general practice
- Trained in INR Star.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- GCSE in Maths and English
- Basic training in Healthcare including phlebotomy and basic dressings, vaccinations and long term condition's management.

**Desirable**

- NVQ Level 2/3 in Healthcare.

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