Paramedic

Primary Care Careers; England; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in England is seeking an experienced paramedic to join their team on a full or part-time basis. This role offers an opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary healthcare team to provide urgent care to patients both in practice and at home. Responsibilities include triaging patients, providing assessments, and maintaining clinical records. Ideal candidates should have a proven track record in emergency care and be committed to high standards of patient-centered care.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a paramedic.
• Ability to triage and prioritize patient needs effectively.
• Experience in providing clinical assessments and emergency care.

Responsibilities

• Respond to referrals and provide assessment at first contact.
• Support the development of emergency patient services.
• Triage and prioritize patients in emergency situations.
• Maintain accurate clinical records efficiently.

Job description

Hillton Primary Care Network are looking to welcome an experienced paramedic into our group of three busy practices, on a full or part time basis depending on the successful applicant. This role will offer you the opportunity to build on your experience of working effectively within a multi‑disciplinary healthcare team, as you will work alongside fellow professionals within the practice in support of one another. If you are an experienced paramedic wanting a new change in your career, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Urgently respond to referrals and provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment at first point of contact by attending to patients, according to patients needs either in the practice or patient homes.
• Support and continue the development of an on the day emergency patient service in the practice.
• Accurately triage and prioritise patients, including in emergency situations and telephone triage, demonstrating the use of a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an event/illness, including past medical and drug history.
• Evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking, and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral.
• Review the effectiveness of the treatment provided, making changes where necessary to improve patient outcomes.
• Maintain accurate clinical records in an efficient manner.

  Serving approximately 33,000 patients, across Ampthill and Barton‑Le‑Clay, Hillton PCN strives to develop collaborative working across the three member practices, aiming to support and strengthen the delivery of primary care services in line with the NHS long‑term plan.

We aim to achieve high standards of patient‑centred care as identified for the specific needs of our population, whilst working to support a resilient and appropriately trained workforce. We operate SystmOne clinical system with a good history of QOF achievement and a CQC rating of "good" across all domains. We currently have a paramedic, three clinical pharmacists, a care coordinator, a social prescriber, two first contact physiotherapists and a primary care network manager. We are also recruiting for further roles to support the future of the network.