Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Assist registered staff in clinic – bring patients to and from waiting are perform and accurately record patient observations, provide patient with refreshments, cleaning down of equipment between patient 

Performing venepuncture either within clinic setting and domiciliary visits

·         Communicate effectively with all patients and their relatives

  Communicate with team members and feeding back to coordinator to ensure coordinated care, this may also include the wider MDT ( eg, haematology, gastroenterology, AAT)

  Stock management – maintaining adequate stock levels, ordering stock via NHS supplies and Integra ordering systems.

·        Assist with admin where necessary, in particular, during annual leave of team admin (LE2, CIVICA, preparation of notes, preparation for clinic)

·        To provide support to the team leader, team coordinator, and other members of the team as appropriate and necessary. This will include supporting the flow of discharge from hospital to the IV Team, this may include printing of notes in absence of admin, stock equipment for new patient visit

 Collection of medication from pharmacy, either to be brought back to base or delivered at patients home

·         Documentation – effectively documenting patients notes, and updating of clinic records

   To support the daily running’s of the team but to work only within scope of practice at all times

  To provide support Admission Avoidance team where necessary through collaborative working