Job responsibilities
The post holder will be a highly skilled and compassionate Paramedic. You will provide advanced medical care and support to patients in their homes, ensuring high
quality, patient-centred care. This role is pivotal in supporting our GP practices in undertaking home visits and in reducing hospital admissions and improving patient outcomes by delivering timely and effective healthcare services in a home setting.
You will be able to work collaboratively with all members of the multi-professional
team to improve the quality and safety of care offered to the registered patients in
the locality of North West Surrey.
Job responsibilities
Patient Care
- In liaison with the practice GP deliver high quality, responsive healthcare
services to patients in their homes, including assessments, diagnostics,
treatment, and follow-up care.
- Work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals, including GPs,
nurses, and social care providers, to ensure comprehensive patient care.
- Interview patients, take medical histories, perform physical examinations, analyse, diagnose and explain medical problems during surgery consultations and
home visits.
- Recommend and explain appropriate diagnostic tests and treatment.
- Perform specialised diagnostic physical exams and treatment procedures.
- Instruct and educate patients in preventative health care.
- Order laboratory tests as required and agreed under supervising doctor(s).
- Fully document all aspects of patient care and complete all required paperwork
for legal and administrative purposes.
- Formulate diagnoses and treatment plans, in consultation with or referring to
Supervising doctor(s) as appropriate.
- Educate patients and their families on health conditions, treatment plans, and
preventive measures to promote self-management and long-term well being.
- Ensure medical equipment is maintained, clean, and in good working order.
Documentation and Administration
- Accurately document patient assessments, treatments, and care plans in accordance with professional standards and regulatory requirements.
Learning and Development
- Take responsibility for own professional development which shows continuing
training and professional development to meet clinical governance guidelines.
- Keep up to date with relevant medical research, technology and evidence based medical practice by attending education courses and professional meetings, reading journals etc.
- Regularly reflect on own practice (and keep a record of learning encounters) to
identify learning needs and encourage self-directed lifelong learning and continued professional development.
Confidentiality:
- Everyone working in or for the NHS has the responsibility to use information
and data in a secure and confidential way. Staff who have access to information about individuals (whether patients, staff or others) need to use it
effectively, whilst maintaining appropriate levels of confidentiality. You must
be aware of the data protection legislation in relation to data security
(confidentiality, integrity and availability) and ensure strict adherence to the
provisions therein at all times
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to
gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters.
They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect
their privacy and act appropriately.
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and
their carers, NICS staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have
access to information relating to NICS as a business organisation. All such
information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers
or the business of NICS may only be divulged to authorised persons in
accordance with the NICS policies and procedures relating to confidentiality
and the protection of personal and sensitive data
Health & safety:
- The post-holder will implement and lead on the full range of promotion and
management their own and others health, safety and security as defined in NICS
Health & Safety policy and NICS Infection Control policy and published procedures.
This will include (but will not be limited to):
- Ensuring job holders across our services adhere to their individual
responsibilities for infection control and health and safety, using a system of
observation, audit and check, hazard identification, questioning, reporting and
risk management.
- Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of health, safety, and infection control
statutory and best practice guidelines and ensuring implementation across the
business.
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to NICS
guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities
in a way that manages those risks across the business
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, initiate, and
manage the training of others.
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and
infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)
- Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of
children.
Equality and Diversity:
- The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and
colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting
them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and
current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and
colleagues
- Behaving in a manner that is welcoming to, of the individual, is non-judgemental, and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and right.
Personal/Professional development:
The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by NICS as part of this employment, with such training to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
Communication:
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contribution to the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:
- Apply NICS policies, standards and guidance.
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect their own work.
- Participate in audit where appropriate
