Paramedic

NHS; Chard; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Chard is seeking a Paramedic (FCP) to enhance patient outcomes and tackle health inequalities. The role involves comprehensive patient assessment, treatment, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should possess substantial post-registration experience, effective clinical decision-making skills, and a strong commitment to patient care. This position offers opportunities for ongoing personal and professional development and is integral to the delivery of primary care services.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable post-registration experience at a senior grade.
• Evidence of working collaboratively with other disciplines and agencies.
• Community experience as a clinician.
• Experience of working in a GP practice or healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

• Assess and triage patients, providing treatment or referrals as necessary.
• Prescribe medications and advise on treatments and side effects.
• Maintain accurate health records for consultations.
• Support compliance with prescribed treatments.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Communication

Decision-making

Mentoring/teaching

Patient management

Education

Post-registration clinical experience

Full UK driving license

Job description

Your work will demonstrateimprovement in patient outcomes, contributing to reduce

health inequalities acrossChard and improving the efficiency of general practice and delivering abest-in-class service.

Main duties of the job

As an Paramedic (FCP) you willbe acting within your professional boundaries, providing care for patients frominitial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment andevaluation of their care with the support of the other Practice staff members asrequired. You will demonstrate safe,clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the Primary CareNetwork (PCN), whilst working autonomously and taking full accountability forpatient encounters. You will work withinyour professional boundaries as part of the Multi-Disciplinary team (MDT) withinChard, supporting the delivery of the Primary Care Directed Enhanced Service tomeet the needs of patients. You could beworking alongside our home visiting and care home team or conducting urgentcare clinics.

About us

CLICK (Chard, Ilminster andLangport) Primary Care Network (PCN) is located in South Somerset with 5 GPpractices and a diverse population spread across town and rural locations. CLICK has a population size of around 50,000patients.

Currently led under theClinical Director leadership of Dr Christoph Kollmeier, the PCN is made up of:

Langport Surgery

The Meadows (Ilminster)

Churchview (Ilminster)

As a PCN we are forward thinking, innovate and driven todeliver the best patient care for our population. This includes healthpopulation management, and this role ties in with supporting that and trackingthe improvements we can make to patients lives.

Job responsibilities

Primary responsibilities

Assess and triage patients,including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment ormake necessary referrals to other team members

Advise patients on generalhealthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signpostingpatients to other community or voluntary services

Be able to:

• perform specialist health checks and reviews
• perform and interpret ECGs; alongside other results asappropriate
• perform investigatory procedures as required
• undertake the collection of pathological specimens includingintravenous blood samples, swabs, etc
• perform investigatory procedures needed by patients and thoserequested by GPs and the wider PCN

Provide an alternative modelto urgent and same day home visits for Chard and undertake clinical audits

Communicate at all levelsensuring effective, patient-centred service

Communicate proactively andeffectively with all colleagues across the team, attending and contributing tomeetings as required

Collaborate with doctors,nurses and other AHPs, accepting referrals and referring to them for specialistcare

Maintain accurate andcontemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuringaccurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patienthealth care and registration with the practice

Prescribe, issue and reviewmedications as appropriate following policy, patient group directives, NICE(national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways. This will bedone in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practiceprotocols, and within scope of practice

Work with patients in order tosupport compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments

Provide information and adviceon prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens,side-effects and interactions

Assess, diagnose, plan,implement and evaluate treatment, interventions and care for patients presentingwith an undifferentiated diagnosis, and patients with complex needs

Clinically examine and assesspatient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and planclinical care accordingly

Prioritise health problems andintervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergencysituations, including initiation of effective emergency care

Diagnose and manage both acuteand chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and non-drug-based treatmentmethods into a management plan

Support patients to adopthealth promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and applyprinciples of self-care

Clinical Governance

Identify risk issues thatimpact on peoples health or social care needs.

Take appropriate action to thesignificance of the risk and consistent with protection procedures, applyingprotection procedures, following lone worker procedure.

Demonstrate effective teamworking inclusive of all relevant professionals.

Report all accidents, incidents, and all ill health, failings in equipment and or environment toline managers.

Contribute towards audit anddata collection as required.

Once assessed as competentwill be accountable for their own practice within their area of responsibilitywhen identified and agreed with the line manager.

Work with your line manager toundertake continual personal and professional development, taking an activepart in reviewing and developing the roles and responsibilities.

Adhere to organisationalpolicies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working,information governance, and health and safety.

Work with the Clinical Lead toaccess regular clinical supervision, to enable you to deal effectively withthe difficult issues that people present.

Work as part of the team toseek feedback, continually improve the service and contribute to businessplanning.

Undertake any tasks consistentwith the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work isdelivered in a timely and effective manner.

Duties may vary from time totime, without changing the general character of the post or the level ofresponsibility.

Confidentiality

In the course of seekingtreatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitiveinformation in relation to their health and other matters. They do so inconfidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacyand act appropriately

In the performance of theduties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access toconfidential information relating to patients and their carer(s), practicestaff and other healthcare workers. Theymay also have access to information relating to the practice as a businessorganisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded asstrictly confidential

Information relating topatients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of thepractice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with thepractice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protectionof personal and sensitive data

Health & safety

The post-holder must comply at all times withthe Practices Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreedsafe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisationsIncident Reporting System.

Equality and diversity

The post-holder will support the equality,diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way thatrecognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way thatis 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 iswelcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects theircircumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

The post-holder will participate in anytraining programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, withsuch training to include:

Participationin an annual appraisal, including taking responsibility for maintaining arecord of own personal and/or professional development

Takingresponsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstratingskills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain qualitywithin the practice, and will:

Alertother team members to issues of quality and risk

Assessown performance and take accountability for own actions, either direct orunder supervision

Contributeto the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities andmaking suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance

Workeffectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

Effectivelymanage own time, workload and resources

This job description represents an outline of the responsibilities ofthe post and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties or tasks. It will change and develop in line withorganisational needs and may be amended following agreement with thepost-holder.

Person Specification

Experience

• Demonstrable post-registration experience at a senior grade
• Evidence of working collaboratively with other disciplines and agencies
• Demonstrable understanding of systems in health and social care that are wider than immediate role
• Knowledge and experience of long term conditions management
• Experience of mentoring/teaching
• Able to plan proactively, manage and evaluate own learning, negotiate learning opportunities and establish learning contracts
• A good understanding of the changing NHS environment
• Community experience as a clinician
• Evidence of working in a multidisciplinary team across professional and/or organisation boundaries
• Able to work flexibly and using own initiative
• Experience of working in a GP practice or healthcare environment
• Knowledge of current QoF and enhanced services
• Strong and inspirational leadership
• Ability to co-ordinate and prioritise workloads able to multi-task as well as be self-disciplined and highly motivated
• Team player
• High degree of personal credibility, emotional intelligence, patience and flexibility
• Ability to cope with unpredictable situations
• Confident in facilitating and challenging others
• Demonstrates a flexible approach in order to ensure patient care is delivered
• Full UK driving license