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Paramedic

St Peter’s Hill Surgery

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Job summary

Join our dynamic GP practice team as a Paramedic. We're seeking a skilled and compassionate paramedic to provide exceptional clinical care and support within our practice. If you're dedicated to delivering high-quality patient care and thrive in a collaborative environment, we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

  • Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) within St Peters Hill Surgery.
  • Conducting patient assessments, managing minor illnesses, administering treatments and collaborating closely with our GPs and healthcare team.
  • Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and asappropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team
  • Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to the organisations social prescribing service and, where appropriate, other community or voluntary services

About us

At St Peters Hill Surgery, our mission is to provide compassionate, patient-centred healthcare that empowers individuals and promotes community well-being. We are dedicated to delivering high-quality medical services with integrity, professionalism, and a commitment to the highest standards of care. Our goal is to be the trusted healthcare partner for our patients, offering comprehensive, accessible, and personalised healthcare solutions to enhance the health and quality of life for all those we serve

Date posted

26 March 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A2574-24-0008

Job locations

15 St. Peters Hill

Grantham

Lincolnshire

NG31 6QA


Job description

Job responsibilities

Perform specialist health checks and reviews within their scope ofpractice and in line with local and national guidance

Perform and interpret ECGs

Perform investigatory procedures as required and undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs and other samples within their scope of practice and within line of local and national guidance

Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain services (e.g., monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients)

Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day GP home visit for the practice

Communicate at all levels across organisations ensuring that an effective, person-centred service is delivered

Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the MDT, attending and contributing to meetings as required

Maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient healthcare and registration with the organisation.

Communicate effectively with patients and, where appropriate, family members and their carers, where applicable, complex and sensitive information regarding their physical health needs, results, findings and treatment choices.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Perform specialist health checks and reviews within their scope ofpractice and in line with local and national guidance

Perform and interpret ECGs

Perform investigatory procedures as required and undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs and other samples within their scope of practice and within line of local and national guidance

Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain services (e.g., monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients)

Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day GP home visit for the practice

Communicate at all levels across organisations ensuring that an effective, person-centred service is delivered

Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the MDT, attending and contributing to meetings as required

Maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient healthcare and registration with the organisation.

Communicate effectively with patients and, where appropriate, family members and their carers, where applicable, complex and sensitive information regarding their physical health needs, results, findings and treatment choices.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level in paramedicine or equivalent experience
  • Registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council as a paramedic

Desirable

  • Post graduate qualifications in minor injury/illness and advanced patient assessment

Experience

Essential

  • Completed two-year Consolidation of Learning period when a newly qualified paramedic
  • Experienced in triage
  • Experienced in dealing with a range of clinical conditions

Desirable

  • Experience of working in a primary care environment

Other requirements

Essential

  • Willingness to work flexible hours when required to meet work demands
  • Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
  • Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality when required, including to visit people in their own home

Desirable

  • Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
  • Has previously worked in a primary care setting or a Primary Care Network
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level in paramedicine or equivalent experience
  • Registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council as a paramedic

Desirable

  • Post graduate qualifications in minor injury/illness and advanced patient assessment

Experience

Essential

  • Completed two-year Consolidation of Learning period when a newly qualified paramedic
  • Experienced in triage
  • Experienced in dealing with a range of clinical conditions

Desirable

  • Experience of working in a primary care environment

Other requirements

Essential

  • Willingness to work flexible hours when required to meet work demands
  • Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
  • Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality when required, including to visit people in their own home

Desirable

  • Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
  • Has previously worked in a primary care setting or a Primary Care Network

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.

UK Registration

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

Additional information

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

St Peter’s Hill Surgery

Address

15 St. Peters Hill

Grantham

Lincolnshire

NG31 6QA


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

St Peter’s Hill Surgery

Address

15 St. Peters Hill

Grantham

Lincolnshire

NG31 6QA


Employer's website

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

For questions about the job, contact:

Management Assistant

Sarah Lamb

sarah.lamb13@nhs.net

01476850123

Date posted

26 March 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A2574-24-0008

Job locations

15 St. Peters Hill

Grantham

Lincolnshire

NG31 6QA


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