Job Description
Job overview
We are looking for an Advanced Healthcare Assistant to join our friendly multidisciplinary HIV team at Barking Community Hospital. We are looking for someone who can provide holistic, person-centred care to our diverse cohort of patients in North East London, recognising the medical, psychological and social complexities that can affect people living with HIV, including stigma, co-morbidities, safeguarding needs and wider vulnerabilities. As an Advanced Healthcare Assistant, you would be an integral part of our team, your time will be spent in direct patient contact, undertaking phlebotomy, vital signs, point-of-care tests, supporting risk assessments and health promotion within our outpatient HIV clinic. You will also help keep the clinic rooms safe and well-stocked, maintaining infection-prevention standards and at times you may be asked to assist with chaperoning, supporting reception and basic administrative tasks so that the clinic runs smoothl...