PCN Paramedic

Job responsibilities

• Work as an autonomous, accountable Paramedic, as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) within the PCN.
• Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment and make necessary referrals to other members of the primary health care team. (Patients with problems needing referral to secondary care should be discussed with the registered GP if possible, before making such referral).
• Assess, diagnose, treat, refer or signpost patients who attend surgery with undifferentiated or undiagnosed conditions relating to minor illness or minor injury.
• Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence, and to acknowledge limitations.
• Use advanced clinical skills to provide education to patients, promoting self-care and empowering them to make informed choices about their treatment.
• Promote self-management where appropriate including signposting patients to social prescribing and other community and voluntary services.
• Be able to:

1. Perform specialist health checks and reviews
2. Perform and interpret ECGs; alongside other results as appropriate
3. Perform investigatory procedures, as required
4. Undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, etc.

• Support the delivery of anticipatory care and lead certain community services (e.g. monitoring blood pressures and diabetes risk of elderly patients living in sheltered housing).
• Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day GP home visit for the PCN and undertake clinical audits.
• 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.
• Communicate at all levels across PCNs and other organisations, ensuring effective, patient-centred service.
• 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.
• 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.
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions and development, either directly or under supervision.
• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the HCPC and College of Paramedics.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team’s performance.
• Participate in continuing professional development, education, and training to keep up to date with evidence based knowledge and competence in all aspects of the role, meeting clinical governance guidelines for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and a Personal Development Plan (PDP).
• Take responsibility for own development and revalidation, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model for others.
• Undertake statutory and mandatory training as required.
• Undertake a variety of research and analysis tasks associated with the improvement of clinical care, medical diagnosis, and treatment.
• Contribute to regular multi-disciplinary and or practice educational meetings.
• Contribute to the practice quality targets to consistently achieve high standards of safe, evidence-based, cost-effective patient care and service delivery.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
• Influence, motivate and involve individuals and teams to reach necessary performance target expectations.
• Work directly with members of the practice primary health care team and support integrated patient centred care through appropriate multi-disciplinary working, with wider PCN and integrated care networks.
• Actively work towards developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the PCN and participate in protocol development, as appropriate.
• Develop and facilitate a good working relationship with the primary care workforce across the PCN to support the delivery of excellent patient care
• Pro-actively promote the role within the practice and externally to key stakeholders and agencies
• Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, information governance, health and safety and quality and risk management

Experience

Essential

• Experienced paramedic with excellent clinical competence.
• Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations.
• Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
• Experience of assessing and triaging patients and providing definitive treatment as necessary
• Knowledge of IT systems with experience is using MS Office, emails and internet

Desirable

• Working in primary care.
• Multi-disciplinary team working.
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• Undertaking home visits.

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified to degree/diploma level in Paramedicine or equivalent experience.
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Completed two year Consolidation of Learning period as a newly qualified paramedic.
• Demonstrate excellent clinical competence (evidenced through CPD and interview).
• Safeguarding and other mandatory training.
• Basic life support training.

Desirable

• Specialist knowledge acquired from post-graduate diploma level / equivalent training/experience.
• Working towards developing Level 7 capability in paramedic areas of practice and, within six months of the commencement complete the clinical pillar competencies of the Advanced Clinical Practice Framework.
• Equal Opportunity training.
• Evidence of continual learning and development.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to appropriately build relationships to gain cooperation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, other professionals).
• Ability to gain acceptance, influence, motivate and engage others in an agreed course of action and overcoming significant barriers.
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise workload and co-ordinate staff including when under pressure and meeting deadlines,
• Adaptable, self-motivated, able to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team or on own initiative to deliver clinically and cost effective healthcare.
• Ability to exercise sound judgement when faced with conflicting pressures and recognises priorities when problem solving,
• Ability to obtain and analyse complex technical data and information.
• Ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
• Capable of producing timely and informative reports.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrable ability to clearly communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
• Ability to work as a member of a team, both through communication and sharing workload.
• Evidence of willingness to participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment to provide and integrated service for patients.
• Able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
• Understands the impact of own behaviour on others.
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities.
• Embraces equality and diversity at every opportunity and the NHS core principles; dignity and respect, compassion, be inclusive, responsive care, support and wellbeing.
• Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety.

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).