PCN Paramedic/Paramedic Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

The following sets out the key role responsibilities for paramedics:

a. They will assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.

b. They will advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to other community or voluntary services.

c. They will be able to:

perform specialist health checks and reviews;

perform and interpret ECGs;

perform investigatory procedures as required, and;

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

perform investigatory procedures needed by patients and those requested by the GPs

d. They will support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain community services (e.g. monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients living in sheltered housing)

e. They will provide an alternative model to urgent and same day home visits for the network and undertake clinical audits

f. The will communicate at all levels across organisations ensuring that an effective, patient centred service is delivered

g. They will communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required

h. They will maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice

i. if the post holder is a non-medical prescriber then to be able to prescribe/issue medications as appropriate following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways

j. Enhance own performance through continuous professional development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service.

Team Working: -

Understand own role and scope in the organisation and identify how this may develop over time.

Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working.

Where involved in delegation of tasks, delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence of those taking on delegated duties.

Ensure clear understanding and utilisation of referral mechanisms within the practice.

Prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded in own practice.

General Duties and Responsibilities: -

Enhance own performance through continuously developing own knowledge, skills and behaviours to meet the current and future requirements of the job and respond to the learning needs of the organisation.

Act within acceptable parameters as an employee/ Manager for the organisation, having regard to the applicable Code of Conduct for your role and ensuring own practice is in accordance with organisational policies.

Maintain own CPD and contribute to own personal development by participating in annual appraisal with line manager, developing a PDP, and actively participating in agreed learning activities and evaluating effectiveness of learning in relation to role.

Regularly review own practices and makes changes in accordance with current and/or best practice, makes suggestions for improved practice and identifies where other activities affect own practice.

To achieve and demonstrate agreed standards of personal and professional development within agreed timescales.

To contribute positively to the effectiveness and efficiency of the service in which he/she works.

For paramedic practitioners:

a. has a masters degree level in the relevant area of expertise;

b. is working at a masters level aware or equivalent that encompasses thefour pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, educationand research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specificclinical competencies

Additional key responsibilities for paramedic practitioners only:

a. assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and asappropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribingmedications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national)and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessaryreferrals to other members of the primary care team;

b. manage undifferentiated undiagnosed condition and identify red flagsand underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action;

c. use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation,complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope ofpractice;

d. actively take a personalised care approach and population centred careapproach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person;and

e. complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professionalclinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care,for example first contact practitioners and the personalised care roles.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Experience working in Primary or community care settings
• Ability to manage and prioritise workload
• Ability to work autonomously
• Ability to work flexibly within core Practice hours
• Organisational skills, communication skills, time management skills
• Basic word and excel skills
• EMIS knowledge desirable but not essential
• Qualifications
• Paramedic Science Degree
• Full registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Higher Education Qualification (level 7)
• Experience working in Primary or community care settings
• a. is educated to degree/diploma level in Paramedicine or equivalent
• experience;
• b. is registered with the HCPC;
• c. has completed their two-year Consolidation of Learning period as a
• newly qualified paramedic;
• d. has a further three years experience as a band 6 (or equivalent)
• paramedic; and
• e. is working towards developing masters level or equivalent capability in paramedic areas of practice and, within six months of the
• commencement of reimbursement for that individual (or a longer time
• period as agreed with the commissioner), has completed and been
• signed off formally within the clinical pillar competencies of the
• paramedic FCP AP 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.

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

Rochester Road Surgery

Address

115 Rochester Road

Gravesend

Gravesend

Kent

DA12 2HU

Employer's website

https://www.rochesterroadandbeaumontdrivesurgeries.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)