Paramedic

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will use advanced clinical skills to provide education to patients and service users, promoting self-care and empower them to make informed choices about their treatment. The post holder will assess, diagnose, treat, refer or signpost patients and or service users who attend the surgery with undifferentiated or undiagnosed conditions relating to minor illness or minor injury. The post holder will coordinate telephone triage, taking clinical responsibility for all patients who have requested an urgent appointment. The post holder will perform any other clinical and clinical administrative duties where trained and determined safe to do so by the organisation. This may include assisting with medical reports, safeguarding, and clinic support.

Key responsibilities

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

1. Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment or make necessary referrals to other members of the PCN or practice team.

2. Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to other community or voluntary services and to self-care.

3. Be able to:

i. perform specialist health checks and reviews

ii. perform and interpret ECGs; alongside other results as appropriate

iii. perform investigatory procedures as required

iv. undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, etc.

v. perform investigatory procedures needed by patients and those requested by GPs and the wider PCN

vi. perform a domicillary (home) visit

4. Support the delivery of anticipatory care and end of life care plans and lead certain community services (e.g. monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients living in sheltered housing).

5. Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day home visits for the PCN and undertake clinical audits.

6. Communicate at all levels across PCNs and other organisations, ensuring effective, patient-centred service.

7. Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required and accepting referrals and referring to specialist services where appropriate.

8. Prescribe, issue and review medications as appropriate following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways. This will be done in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice N.B relevant if possesses prescribing qualification only.

9. Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment and or interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis, and patients with complex needs within the clinical and domiciliary setting.

10. Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly

11. Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.

12. Take an active part in achievement of contractual markers.

13. Implement and participate in vaccination programmes as appropriate.

Quality Requirements

14. Enhance own performance through continuous professional development, keep up to date with current evidence-based practice, and impart own knowledge and skills to PCN colleagues to meet the needs of the service.

15. Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the HCPC and College of Paramedics.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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Desirable

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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).

Employer details

Employer name

Five Elms Primary Care Network

Address

Norheads Lane Surgery

14a Norheads Lane

Biggin Hill

Kent

TN16 3XS

Employer's website

https://www.fiveelmspcn.com (Opens in a new tab)