Assistant Practitioner – Health and Wellbeing
Role: Assistant Practitioner – Health and Wellbeing
Location: Brighton
Full time: 37.5 hours per week
Shift times: Monday to Friday
Contract: Permanent
Salary – £27,222 to £31500 depending on experience
About HCA UK Corporate Healthcare
HCA Healthcare UK is a leading provider of Corporate Healthcare services, delivering high-quality, personalised care directly within the workplace. We embed our clinical teams inside some of the UK’s most prestigious organisations including global banks, insurers, and professional services firms ensuring their employees have direct access to exceptional healthcare support.
The Opportunity
We’re seeking an experienced Assistant Practitioner – Health and Wellbeing to join our Primary Care team at a high-profile corporate client site in Brighton. This is a rewarding role where you’ll provide health and wellbeing clinical care, and health screening assessments to employees, working closely with GPs, fellow nurses, and the client’s internal health and wellbeing teams. This is a unique opportunity to deliver impactful care, to a professional adult population, coaching and supporting their health and wellbeing, lifestyle choices in their fast-paced, high-performing working environment.
Additionally you’ll be part of HCA UK’s wider Primary Care network, benefiting from our clinical governance and support structures and wider HCA Hospital group, for onwards treatment and care if required.
What you'll do:
This role focuses on delivering high-quality health assessments, wellbeing evaluations, and personalised lifestyle support directly onsite at one of our Corporate Clients. Under direction of the team lead guide patients in understanding lifestyle choices that impact their long-term health, including nutrition, physical activity, sleep quality, and stress management
Carry out accurate and professional health checks as directed by the Health Screening Team Lead, this may include:
Observations; temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, weight and height, urine output. Capillary blood testing (near-patient testing for cholesterol, blood glucose, and HbA1c). BMI, and waist-to-hip ratio measurements.
Foster a collaborative approach where the patient is actively involved in planning and maintaining their own wellbeing journey.
Promote preventative healthcare and encourage ongoing monitoring where appropriate.
Educate patients on the meaning and implications of their health screening results in clear, accessible language.
What you'll bring
NVQ level 4 or diploma-level qualification in Health Science or a related healthcare discipline such as physiology.
Minimum Level 2 Safeguarding Course
Previous Experience in a similar Corporate setting, or Primary Care setting, Hospital, or Health and Wellbeing clinic / services.
Knowledge and experience of the anatomy and body physiology.
Confident in delivering both assessments and lifestyle behaviour change. Awareness of remit and understanding of clinical assessment escalation boundaries.
Strong relationship building skills, ability to coach and influence appropriately.
Why HCA UK?
Originally founded over 50 years ago by Dr Thomas Frist, HCA has gone on to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers. In the UK, we’re one of the largest providers of privately funded healthcare and have invested over £500 million in the latest treatments, technology, techniques, medication and facilities. Being part of a large multisite, established healthcare group we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression through internal and external courses, as well as working conditions that prioritise both your mental and physical wellbeing.
We believe that by caring for our employees, we empower them to provide exceptional care for our patients. That’s why we offer a host of flexible benefits that reflect the invaluable contribution they make every day. As a Senior Healthcare Assistant you’ll be eligible for:
25 days holiday each year (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with option to buy or sell leave to suit you
Private Healthcare Insurance for treatment at our leading hospitals
Private pension contribution which increases with length of service
Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme
Group Life Assurance from day one
Critical illness cover
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
Corporate staff discount for all facilities including Maternity packages at The Portland
Comprehensive range of flexible health, protection and lifestyle benefits to suit you
Discounts with over 800 major retailers
Culture and values
At HCA UK we believe exceptional care starts with our people. We celebrate the unique perspectives and different experiences each of us bring as we know that when you feel seen, heard and supported you can be at your best for our patients, and each other.
Our mission is simple, above all else we’re committed to the care and improvement of human life, a clear statement that extends to both our patients and colleagues. To achieve this, we live and breathe four core values:
Unique and Individual: We recognise and value everyone as unique and individual
Kindness and compassion: We treat people with kindness and compassion
Honesty, integrity and fairness: - We act with absolute honesty, integrity and fairness
Loyalty, respect and dignity: We trust and treat one another as valued members of the HCA UK family with loyalty, respect and dignity
Reasonable adjustments
We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their full self to work and be afforded the same opportunities. As a Disability Confident committed organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to suit your needs as well as offer reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, and in the workplace, to anyone that needs them.
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