Our Clinical Support Team
Charlotte Williams
Nurse Associate
Lianne Wileman
Health Care Assistant
Nicola Manhi
Trainee Nurse Associate
Ella Russell
Health and Wellbeing Advisor
Loay Al Salamat
Health and Wellbeing Advisor
Our Care Coordinators and Community Connectors
Stefania Wigelsworth
Care Coordinator
Stephanie Coulson
Care Coordinator
Liz Denbury
Community Connector
Healthcare Assistants (HCA)
Healthcare assistants or HCAs are not registered healthcare professionals, but HCAs employed since 2015 are expected to complete the Care Certificate and will have qualified to a level 3 healthcare qualification. HCAs in training may be referred to as ‘Trainee HCA’.
HCAs can:
Collect blood samples
Measure and record blood pressure
Collect specimens such as urinalysis
Perform lung-function tests and peak-flow tests
Undertake new patient health checks including checking diabetic feet
Record ECGs
Provide health promotion advice such as smoking cessation
Support the nursing team with dressing changes and vaccinations
HCAs can advance their career to a Nurse Associate as a Trainee Nurse Associate Apprenticeship role
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General Practitioner Assistants (GPA)
General Practitioner Assistants or GPAs are not registered healthcare professionals, but have achieved GPA specialist training at a foundation degree level.
Their role is to support the GPs both administratively and with simple clinical tasks as well as act as a point of contact between patient and doctor.
GPAs can:
Collect blood samples and measure and record blood pressure
Collect specimens such as urinalysis
Record ECGs
Provide health promotion advice such as smoking cessation
Take a patient history and relay this to the GP
Help patients to understand and comply with a plan of care which has been previously agreed by a GP
Act as point of contact between GP and patient to enhance patient care
Carry out administrative duties on behalf of the GP
Trainee Nurse Associate (TNA) and Return to Practice Nurses (RTP)
A nursing associate is a member of the practice nursing team who’s registered with the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC). A Trainee NA is working towards this qualification in an Apprenticeship role, with full support from an external training provider and the Nursing team.
A return to Practice Nurse is a previously registered nurse who has let their NMC pin lapse. They are undertaking a return to practice nurse course and are working in placement at the Practice to regain their nursing skills.
A Trainee Nurse Associate and Return to Practice Nurse can:
Promote health and give information about preventing ill health
Carry out baseline observations – blood pressure, temperature and pulse
Collect clinical specimens including blood
Undertake ECGs
Support patients and their families following unwelcome diagnoses
Carry out a range of clinical tasks including some immunisations and dressings
Patford House Partnership Staff Wellbeing
At Patford House Partnership we want to encourage our team to be the best that they can be through mentorship and coaching. We have an employee assistance program which helps our employees to live happy and healthy lives not just inside work but in their home and social lives as well. Staff wellbeing is taken very seriously and our Staff Wellbeing Coach offers weekly breathing, meditation and yoga classes to our employees to help them live their best lives. If you are interested in joining our team and want to know about the benefits of working at Patford House Partnership please contact us here for details of our current vacancies.