Job summary
BEMS+ is looking for a BANK Specialist Paramedic to join the Home Visiting Service to undertake 'on the day' requests from GP practices for home visits.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide advanced clinical care and support to a diverse and undefined caseload of patients requiring timely primary care with acute and complex pathology. The post holder will explore clinical diagnosis, treatments and where appropriate referral to allied primary and secondary care services and specialties. Furthermore, the post holder will maintain the highest standards of contemporaneous clinical records. The post holder will use their clinical expertise to develop and enrich the service. The post holder will foster a collaborative work ethic with emergency, acute, primary and secondary care colleagues. The post holder must possess advanced clinical competencies and capabilities and ensure that ethical, evidence-based practice is inherent in every aspect of their care. The philosophy of right care, right time, right place is fundamental to the successful delivery of our service.
About us
BANES Enhanced Medical Services (BEMS+) is a GP Federation, and local not-for-profit organisation, that works across the community to improve patient care by providing high quality community based clinical services and by linking together local General Practices to help develop and provide those services.
Successful applicant will have access
to NHS Pension.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
Working with BEMS and with locality based General Practice staff, the post-holder will, in summary:
- Work within the Home Visiting Service to undertake on the day requests from GP practices for home visits.
- Provide timely, high quality, person-centred clinical care to patients, addressing their needs within the current urgent primary care needs and their long-term self-management. This is achieved by collaborating with all health and social care agencies and including local community services and within primary care provision.
- Prevent inappropriate hospital admissions or attendances to the emergency department by providing/co-coordinating the provision of specialist care by other agencies for the patient in the most appropriate and agreed environment.
- Facilitate the timely attendance of clinically relevant patients to secondary care.
- Work collaboratively with hospital consultants and specialist registrars to ensure acutely ill patients receive the right care in the right place at the right time either in the community or prior to admission.
- Ensure the learning of new clinical skills and knowledge, including Non-Medical Prescribing, with the appropriate training and qualification within the curriculum competency framework.
- Write up full and discursive notes of patient encounters in the BEMS clinical system. Ensure full and effective communication with GP practices regarding patient assessment and outcomes using SystmOne TPP software.
Please read the full Job Description in the supporting documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
Working with BEMS and with locality based General Practice staff, the post-holder will, in summary:
- Work within the Home Visiting Service to undertake on the day requests from GP practices for home visits.
- Provide timely, high quality, person-centred clinical care to patients, addressing their needs within the current urgent primary care needs and their long-term self-management. This is achieved by collaborating with all health and social care agencies and including local community services and within primary care provision.
- Prevent inappropriate hospital admissions or attendances to the emergency department by providing/co-coordinating the provision of specialist care by other agencies for the patient in the most appropriate and agreed environment.
- Facilitate the timely attendance of clinically relevant patients to secondary care.
- Work collaboratively with hospital consultants and specialist registrars to ensure acutely ill patients receive the right care in the right place at the right time either in the community or prior to admission.
- Ensure the learning of new clinical skills and knowledge, including Non-Medical Prescribing, with the appropriate training and qualification within the curriculum competency framework.
- Write up full and discursive notes of patient encounters in the BEMS clinical system. Ensure full and effective communication with GP practices regarding patient assessment and outcomes using SystmOne TPP software.
Please read the full Job Description in the supporting documents.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Relevant professional qualification e.g. Specialist Paramedic Masters qualification or equivalent.
Desirable
- - Non-Medical Independent Prescriber qualification
Experience
Essential
- - Possess experience in palliative care (primary/urgent care).
- - Experience of, or a willingness to undertake advanced clinical practice enhancement; including interpretation of blood, culture results and radiological investigations.
- - Minimum of three years post-registration with demonstrable experience of using diagnostic skills.
- - Evidence of working within primary or urgent care clinical practice environments.
- - Evidence of working in a community setting.
- - Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice/speciality/recent contemporaneous CPD.
- - Experience in teaching & supporting junior staff/students.
- - Ability to support patients during acute episodes of illness and to self-manage long term conditions where feasible.
- - Excellent communication and leadership skills.
- - Implementation of audit/research recommendations.
- - Experience of clinical information systems.
Desirable
- - Use e-referral letters and pathways in primary care setting.
- - Demonstrates ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians.
Other
Essential
- Full driving license and access to vehicle
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Relevant professional qualification e.g. Specialist Paramedic Masters qualification or equivalent.
Desirable
- - Non-Medical Independent Prescriber qualification
Experience
Essential
- - Possess experience in palliative care (primary/urgent care).
- - Experience of, or a willingness to undertake advanced clinical practice enhancement; including interpretation of blood, culture results and radiological investigations.
- - Minimum of three years post-registration with demonstrable experience of using diagnostic skills.
- - Evidence of working within primary or urgent care clinical practice environments.
- - Evidence of working in a community setting.
- - Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice/speciality/recent contemporaneous CPD.
- - Experience in teaching & supporting junior staff/students.
- - Ability to support patients during acute episodes of illness and to self-manage long term conditions where feasible.
- - Excellent communication and leadership skills.
- - Implementation of audit/research recommendations.
- - Experience of clinical information systems.
Desirable
- - Use e-referral letters and pathways in primary care setting.
- - Demonstrates ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians.
Other
Essential
- Full driving license and access to vehicle
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).
Additional information
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).
