Clinical Paramedic

Job summary

JOB SUMMARY

We are looking for paramedics who are keen to develop their skills, to join the Nexus team at one of our 9 practice sites in north Southwark. Paramedics will work in one of our multidisciplinary primary care teams running clinics in the surgery and home visits to our housebound patients. Our patient population is varied reflecting the diverse communities of Southwark and inner London with a mix of students, young families, different ethnic groups, asylum seekers and professionals. All our practices are training practices with experience in training a wide mix of practitioners.

WHY WORK FOR US?

We have worked with paramedics in our team for the last 3 years and understand the skills, experience and value you bring to general practice. You are highly capable and comfortable working outside of hospital and extending high quality patient assessment into peoples homes.

We are active in supporting professional development and personal interests within our team. Your GP supervisor will help you to develop a learning plan for your role or work towards accreditation as a First Contact Practitioner if interested.

Main duties of the job

Whether newly qualified or highly experienced, you will be exposed to the broad scope of general practice via assessment of patients in the surgery and in their own homes. Our paramedicstriage patients over the phone, provide face to face assessment in the practice or patients home, and use their diagnostic skills on a daily basis to help put together management plans under the supervision of our experienced GP team.

You should be a registered paramedic who has the ability and confidence to safely and comprehensively perform full systems assessments and, with senior colleague input, agree and implement a plan of care.

Your working week

• Morning clinic in surgery with GP supervision seeing patients with acute medical problems
• Afternoon home visits for housebound patients with acute medical problems for assessment or follow up. Review of those with long term conditions unable to get to the surgery.
• Liaison and referral to other primary health care services
• Weekly site based clinical meeting to discuss clinical cases, learning events and organisational developments.
• Tutorial with supervisor

About us

Nexus Health Group is the third largest single list provider of Primary Care Services in England.We look after a practice population of 76,000 patients spread across our 9 sites. The overall aim of Nexus Health Group is to provide a clinically excellent service to our patients, recognising the needs of our local population and to provide a learning and developmental environment for our staff. Our clinical approach is based on a foundation of clinical excellence, clinical leadership and clinical governance.

We have 9 GP Practices across north Southwark all geographically close and well served by local transport hubs at London Bridge, Elephant & Castle and Canada Water. We share one patient list but our patients are attached to a specific site and are looked after by the site based teams which include GPs, Nurses, Physicians Associates, Paramedics, ANPs and Pharmacists. These site-based teams are supported by centralised HR, IT, Clinical Administration and the Senior Management Team.

All our sites function as traditional practices with a Site Manager and GP partners working in the practice. All sites are involved in GP training and increasingly training the wider AHP team such as nurses and PAs. Nexus works closely with the local PCN with 2 partners as Clinical Directors. As an at scale provider there are many opportunities to develop areas of interest and leadership within Nexus and the wider PCN