Paramedic Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job summary:

• The role will provide a specialist Paramedic resource for health care professionals and service users, working in collaboration with other members of the Multidisciplinary Team.

• To work within the community, as a Paramedic Practitioner, in the provision of a holistic approach for individuals including assessment, diagnosis and treatment, to deliver quality patient services.

• The post holder will use advanced clinical skills to provide education to service users, promoting self-care and empower them to make informed choices about their treatment.

• The post holder must own vehicle for home visits with expensed remunerated in overall financial package.

• To work within the practice to compile outcome data though-out the 6 month pilot.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Hold a BSc in a training programme approved by the College of Paramedics
• Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Hold or working towards a non-medical prescribing qualification
• Hold a full UK driving license.

Desirable

• Experience of working within Primary Care
• Completion of the FCP programme

Experience

Essential

• A minimum of 3 years experience working as a paramedic (in Primary or Secondary care) or a band equivalent role.
• Experience in managing a designated caseload using theoretical and practical experience, completing assessments, planning, implementing interventions, and evaluating outcomes aligned to care plans
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• Exercise a critical understanding of personal scope of practice and to identify when a patient needs referring on
• Through patient assessment and working in partnership with patients and their carers, make decisions about the best pathways of care, informed by the urgency and severity of patient need, patient acuity and dependency, and the most appropriate deployment of resources.
• Manage risk in unpredictable, uncertain situations to uphold patient safety, including by referring on to other primary care team members and to specialist services
• Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies / procedures and codes of conduct.
• Involves patients in decision making and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance.
• Able to write comprehensive clinical notes and use clinical coding

Desirable

• Experience of working in primary care.
• Experience of working with primary care clinical systems including EMIS, Docman etc.
• An awareness and understanding of the HEE (Health Education England) Primary Care Paramedic Roadmap to Practice.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Woodley Centre Surgery

Address

6 Headley Road

Woodley

Reading

RG5 4JA

Employer's website

https://www.woodleycentresurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)