Paramedic Practitioner - Primary Care Network (PCN)

Job responsibilities

This role will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of their care in a holistic manner. They will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within Harpenden Health PCN.

The PCN Paramedic will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary general practice teams to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures. There is an expectation that training across the practices is maintained to an expected level, with use of appropriate equipment and facilities as directed by the post holder who is an autonomous Allied Healthcare Professional and who will be part of PCN support to practices. They would be expected to attend to patients within a defined list of conditions, including triage, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment to deliver quality patient services in conjunction with the daily duty Doctor for urgent care or an allocated Doctor for chronic disease management.

Please see full job description and person specification for full details.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Paramedic.
• Evidence of continual learning and professional development.
• Minimum of two years working as an advanced Paramedic.
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practice.
• An appreciation of the nature of Primary Care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Awareness of telephone triage assessment.
• Management of common minor injuries/illnesses.
• Clinical examination skills.
• Knowledge of needs of patients with long-term conditions.
• Management of long term (chronic) conditions.

Desirable

• Clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• Understanding of the mentorship process.

Other Requirements

Essential

• Flexibility to work outside of core office hours.
• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including visiting people in their own home.

Experience

Essential

• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email, and face to face.
• Willingness to work flexibly to deliver safe and effective healthcare.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills, organisational skills with the ability to constructively challenge the view and practices of managers and clinicians.
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails, and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
• Clear, polite telephone manner.
• Ability to promote best practice regarding all pharmaceutical matters.
• Effective time management (planning and organising).
• Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience, and work well under pressure.
• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional, and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
• Ability to use own initiative, discretion, and sensitivity.
• Able to get along with people from all backgrounds and communities, respecting lifestyles, and diversity.
• Ability to use own initiative, discretion, and sensitivity.
• Flexible and cooperative.
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals.
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations.
• Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance and health and safety.

Desirable

• Good clinical system IT knowledge of EMIS.
• An appreciation of the new NHS landscape including the relationships between individual practices, PCNs and the commissioners.
• Experience of clinical governance including audit.
• Broad knowledge of general 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).