Healthcare Assistant

Minimum 3 shifts per week | Evenings & weekends | Potential to extend

Want regular HCA shifts without committing to a permanent role? Bring your phlebotomy and ECG skills to an established, GP-led urgent-care service.

Leaders in Care is recruiting a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) to support patients redirected from A&E into an urgent primary-care pathway.

Working across Redditch and Worcester, you’ll join GPs and experienced clinical colleagues, with regular work over an initial six-month period. You’ll need to commit to at least three shifts per week, with flexibility around the days you can offer within the available shift patterns.

Why this role?
 

• £15 per hour
• Regular, ongoing temporary work over six months, with potential to extend
• A choice of available evening and weekend shifts
• Varied clinical work using your phlebotomy, ECG and patient-observation skills
• An established service with experienced clinical colleagues
• Dedicated support from Georgia at Leaders in Care throughout registration, compliance and placement

• Monday–Friday: 3.30pm–10pm
• Saturday–Sunday: 9.30am–4pm or 3.30pm–10pm

• Carry out phlebotomy and venepuncture
• Complete ECG recordings
• Take and accurately document full clinical observations
• Use NEWS2, recognise deterioration and escalate concerns promptly
• Provide basic wound care where appropriate
• Maintain clear electronic patient records
• Follow infection prevention and safeguarding procedures

• Must have experience using EMIS.
• Recent HCA experience in general practice, a PCN, urgent care, community services or a comparable clinical setting
• Recent, formally signed-off phlebotomy/venepuncture competency
• Recent practical competency in ECG recording
• Experience taking clinical observations and providing basic wound care
• A sound understanding of NEWS2, deterioration and escalation
• Confidence using electronic patient records
• Availability for three or more shifts per week across Redditch and Worcester

EMIS experience is highly desirable. Suture removal, Steri-Strip application, Care Certificate completion and additional primary-care competencies are welcomed but not essential.

Interested? Speak to Georgia.

Apply with your CV, email georgia@leadersincare.co.uk or call 07828 873089.

Tell us about your clinical experience and availability, and we’ll talk you through the role and next steps.

Refer a friend: Know an HCA with phlebotomy and ECG experience? You could receive a £500 referral bonus following a successful placement. Contact Georgia for details.