Healthcare Assistant

Job summary Welcome to FCMS! Post: Health Care Assistant Pay: £13.26 depending on qualifications and experience Hours: Bank Accountable to: Head of Clinical Workforce Base: Newfield House, Blackpool. * Please note that our roles are not being considered for sponsorship currently* Overview of Role : We are looking for individuals with a passion and enthusiasm to work with some of the most vulnerable and complex people within our community. The right candidate should be approachable and display excellent communication skills, compassion and a non-judgemental attitude. We are looking for a Health care assistant to join the team on a bank basis, covering all the services within Inclusion Health. Main duties of the job Compass Medical Practice is a GP practice for those who are difficult to manage in mainstream practice. Patients are either consulted via telephone/ video link or face to face. When a face-to-face appointment is required, a risk assessment is undertaken to assess what support the clinician requires. Consultations are supported with the use of patient liaison officers and consultations are carried out in our mobile clinic van or in an agreed prebooked venue. Compass Medical Practice also provides medical cover to temporary patients residing at Thornton House. These are short term patients that are residing at Thornton house for either rehab, rest or recouperation. There is a weekly ward round and multidisciplinary team meeting. Compass Medical practice also offers medical support throughout the week, outside of the ward round, during opening hours. Our homeless health service is nurse led and is operates on a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from the Salvation Army in central Blackpool. The nursing team take a multidisciplinary approach, often working with wider services to meet the needs of a complex patient cohort who are facing multiple disadvantage. The targeted demand management service offers a wound care service in Fleetwood on weekly basis, and a health care assistant led health check service every two weeks. About us The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health and wellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremely effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the ability to strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services. Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do. Come and be a part of our amazing team! We offer NHS Pension Cycle to Work Scheme Career Development Opportunities Attendance Bonus Staff Benefit Scheme Free Tea & Coffee Eye Care Contributions Details Date posted 15 September 2026 Pay scheme Other Salary £13.26 an hour Contract Bank Working pattern Part-time Reference number U0051-26-0063 Job locations Newfield House Vicarage Lane Blackpool Lancashire FY4 4EW United Kingdom Job description Job responsibilities We are looking for individuals with a passion and enthusiasm to work with some of the most vulnerable and complex people within our community. The right candidates will be approachable and display excellent communication skills, compassion, tolerance, and a non-judgemental attitude. Day to Day Duties to include, but not exhaustive: Support the Management team to ensure all QOF Targets are met Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures Prioritise, organise, and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality Deliver care according to local and national guidelines Obtain and document consent for any treatment undertaken and keep the patient at the centre of his/her own care, ensuring full participation in decision making Work within all relevant policies and procedural guidelines e.g., infection control, chaperoning and risk management Safeguarding responsibilities for adults and vulnerable groups, reporting concerns appropriately at the correct time and engaging with services as needed. Clinical practice: To support qualified clinicians in supporting patients seen within the Complex Lives services To provide advice for patients with presenting conditions with support of qualified clinicians To provide Wound Care, undertake ECGS, Observations and Venepuncture to support the trained clinicians. Patient education and health promotion Work to attain the service KPIs and targets. Ensure all patient contact is recorded in a timely manner on the IT systems to enable tracking of patient outcomes, both in real-time to support ongoing intervention planning and retrospectively to under