Prescribing Paramedic

Integrated Care System; Wigan; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a skilled Prescribing Paramedic in the Wigan North area. The role involves providing high-quality patient care in care homes, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring compliance with clinical practices and guidelines. Successful candidates will be passionate about clinical excellence and committed to professional development.

Qualifications

• Experience in primary care and advanced clinical practice.
• Ability to work within scope and refer when necessary.
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies and local public health issues.

Responsibilities

• Conduct regular ward rounds at care homes.
• Review and complete care plans for patients.
• Manage medication queries and compliance.

Skills

Clinical knowledge

Communication

Problem solving

Patient care

Team collaboration

Education

Masters degree

Qualified independent prescriber - V300

Teaching qualification

ALS and PALS

Job description

We are seeking a dedicated and skilled Prescribing Paramedic to join our Wigan North PCN team.

The successful candidate will play a vital role in our PCNteam, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the bestoutcomes for patients. This position requires an individual who is passionateabout clinical excellence and committed to continuous professional development.

The job will involve being part of a care home teamproviding support to the care homes allocated to the 4 practices within thePCN.

The role will be employed under the Additional rolesReimbursement Scheme (ARRS) meeting the requirements outlines in the NetworkContract Agreement DES.

Please note, this advert may be closed early dependant on the amount of applications received

Main duties of the job

• Provide a regular ward round to patients at care homes within the PCN
• Ensuring the care homes are following the correct procedures in raising daily queries to the appropriate teams to reduce the workload on the practices
• Complete and reviewing care plans for all patients within the care homes
• Responsible for all medication related queries and compliance for patients within the care homes
• Work alongside the pharmacy technician to review and complete medication reviews for patients within the care homes
• Attend meetings with the PCN to provide updates and discuss service
• Ensure continued compliance with indemnity cover
• Practice in compliance with respective code of professional conduct and within scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for decisions, actions and omissions
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy and limits of own competence, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information
• Demonstrate effective communication skills, supporting people in making decisions, planning care or seeking to make a positive change
• Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning
• Be a professional role model for the PCN

About us

We are a PCN of 4 practices in the Wigan North area (AspullSurgery, Beech Hill Medical Practice, Shevington Surgery and Standish MedicalPractice) and work closely together to deliver high-quality patient care.

Job responsibilities

Inaddition to the primary responsibilities, the Advanced Clinical Practitionermay be requested to:

a.Undertake overall management of a clinical team, providing guidance when necessary,acting as a mentor to students and newly qualified staff

b.Maintainan effective clinical staff rota ensuring all clinics are staffed appropriately

c.Participatein local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care

d.Supportand participate in shared learning within the PCN

e.Continuallyreview clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiativeswhere appropriate

f. Participatein the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structuredapproach i.e., root cause analysis (RCA)

g.Commensuratewith their role, support the development of clinical services within the PCN,liaising with external agencies as required

All staff have a duty to conform to the following:

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

A good attitude and positive action towards EqualityDiversity & Inclusion (ED&I) creates an environment where allindividuals can achieve their full potential. Creating such an environment isimportant for three reasons it improves operational effectiveness, it ismorally the right thing to do and it is required by law.

Patients and their families have the right to be treatedfairly and be routinely involved in decisions about their treatment and care.They can expect to be treated with dignity and respect and will not bediscriminated against on any grounds including age, disability, genderreassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race,religion, or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Patients have a responsibility to treat other patients andour staff with dignity and respect.

Staff have the right to be treated fairly in recruitment andcareer progression. Staff can expect to work in an environment where diversityis valued, and equality of opportunity is promoted. Staff will not bediscriminated against on any grounds including age, disability, genderreassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race,religion, or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Staff have a responsibility toensure that they treat our patients and their colleagues with dignity and respect.

Safety, Health, Environment and Fire (SHEF)

This PCN is committed to supporting and promotingopportunities for staff to maintain their health, wellbeing, and safety.

The post holder is to manage and assess risk within theirareas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protectstaff and patients, and monitor work areas and practices to ensure they aresafe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and securitylegislation, policies, procedures, and guidelines.

All personnel have a duty to take reasonable care of healthand safety at work for themselves, their team, and others and to cooperate withemployers to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements.

All personnel are to comply with the:

Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

Fire Precautions (workplace) Regulations 1999

Other statutory legislation which may be brought to the postholders attention

Confidentiality

The PCN is committed to maintaining an outstandingconfidential service. Patients entrust and permit us to collect and retainsensitive information relating to their health and other matters pertaining totheir care. They do so in confidence and have a right to expect that all staffwill always respect their privacy and maintain confidentiality.

It is essential that, if the legal requirements are to bemet and the trust of our patients is to be retained, all staff must protectpatient information and provide a confidential service.

Quality and Continuous Improvement (CI)

To preserve and improve the quality of the PCNs output, allpersonnel are required to think not only of what they do, but how they achieveit. By continually re-examining our processes, we will be able to develop andimprove the overall effectiveness of the way we work.

The responsibility for this rests with everyone workingwithin the PCN, to look for opportunities to improve quality and share goodpractice, and to discuss, highlight and work with the team to createopportunities to improve patient care.

Our PCN continually strive to improve work processes thatdeliver healthcare with improved results across all areas of our serviceprovision. We promote a culture of continuous improvement where everyonecounts, and staff are permitted to make suggestions and contributions toimprove our service delivery and enhance patient care.

Staff should interpret national strategies and policies intolocal implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture ofgeneral practice.

All staff are to contribute to investigations and root causeanalyses whilst participating in serious incident investigations andmultidisciplinary case reviews.

Induction

We will provide a full induction programme and managementwill support you throughout the process.

Learning and development

The effective use of training and development is fundamentalto ensuring that all staff are equipped with the appropriate skills, knowledge,attitude, and competences to perform their role. All staff will be required topartake in and complete mandatory training as directed. It is an expectationfor this post holder to assess their own learning needs and undertake learningas appropriate

The post holder will undertake mentorship for team members,and disseminate learning and information gained to other team members, to sharegood practice and inform others about current and future developments (e.g.,courses and conferences).

Collaborative working

All staff are to recognise the significance of collaborativeworking, understand their own role and scope, and identify how this may developover time. Staff are to prioritise their own workload and ensure effectivetime-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team.

Teamwork is essential in multidisciplinary environments, andthe post holder is to work as an effective and responsible team member,supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working,while working effectively with others to clearly define values, direction andpolicies impacting upon care delivery

Effective communication is essential and all staff mustensure they communicate in a way which enables the sharing of information in anappropriate manner.

All staff should delegate clearly and appropriately,adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence.

Plans and outcomes by which to measure success should beagreed.

Managing information

All staff should use technology and appropriate software asan aid to management in the planning, implementation and monitoring of care,and presenting and communicating information.

Data should be reviewed and processed using accurateSNOMED/read codes to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval formonitoring and audit processes.

Staff will be given detailed information during theinduction process regarding policy and procedure.

The post holder must adhere to the information containedwithin the PCN/practice directives, ensuring protocols are always adhered to.

Security

The security of the PCN is the responsibility of allpersonnel. The post holder must ensure they always remain vigilant and reportany suspicious activity immediately to their line manager.

Under no circumstances are staff to share the codes for thedoor locks with anyone, and they are to ensure that restricted areas remaineffectively secured. Likewise, password controls are to be maintained andpasswords are not to be shared.

Professional conduct

All staff are required to dress appropriately for theirrole.

Person Specification

Clinical knowledge and skills

• Relevant Clinical knowledge and skills
• Understand the importance of evidence-based practice
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to GPs
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Understand the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
• Polite and confident, flexible and cooperative
• Motivated, forward thinker
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations as well as ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations
• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
• Awareness of issues within the wider health arena

Experience

• Experience of practice within the four pillars
• Job plan that demonstrates advanced clinical practice and has equity with peers working at this level
• Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
• Experience of working in a primary care environment

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters degree as detailed within the HEE document tilted Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England
• Qualified independent prescriber - V300
• Registered on their appropriate professional register
• Teaching qualification
• ALS and PALS

Other Requirements

• Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
• Occupational health clearance
• Meet the requirements and produce evidence for revalidation
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) commensurate with the role of an ACP
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across locality on a regular basis
• Flexibility to work outside core office hours

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.