Senior Paramedic

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust; Crawley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS community service provider as a Senior Paramedic, delivering critical clinical interventions and supporting a multidisciplinary team. This part-time role focuses on admission avoidance and patient care, offering flexible working options and excellent training opportunities. Be part of a compassionate team dedicated to improving health outcomes in the community.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Excellent training and development opportunities

Cost-effective workplace nurseries

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical interventions and IV therapy.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
• Commitment to patient-centered care and admission avoidance.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical interventions to prevent hospital admissions.
• Support team coordination and service development.
• Triage and assess patients for safe home care.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Team coordination

Crisis response

Job description

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The UCR Service provides urgent support, seven days a week, to help prevent unnecessary hospital admissions. This is achieved by providing a two-hour crisis response delivered by a multi-skilled team of professionals. Support is provided at home or where they usually reside for people concerned about declining health or mobility, at risk of hospital admission. Our teams work closely with the local ambulance service to support category 3 & 4 patients, enabling rapid community response by skilled teams to help patients remain at home.

The UCR service also offers a virtual ward supported by digital technology and remote monitoring. Our multidisciplinary teams ensure hospital-level care at home, aiding recovery and freeing hospital beds. Services include home visits and digital remote monitoring.

Teams consist of GPs, Nurses, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, and Health & Therapy Assistants, working flexibly to provide a 7-day service, 365 days a year, from 8 am to 8 pm.

Main duties of the job

The UCR Service provides clinical interventions, including intravenous therapy, within a multidisciplinary team for admission avoidance pathways, aligned with national specifications. The service operates daily, triaging, assessing, and delivering care to enable patients to stay safely at home. The postholder will provide clinical expertise, support team coordination, and develop the service through reflective practice and audits. They will identify suitable patients for early discharge or admission prevention.

Are you passionate about admission avoidance? Committed to delivering fast, reliable service? Want to work with a caring, dedicated team?

We are the main NHS community service provider across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care, helping manage health, prevent hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Why work for us?

• Positive NHS Staff Survey results highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active networks for EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values

Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence guide our work.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, especially from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

For further details or informal visits, contact:

Name: Natalie Payne
Job title: Operational Team Lead
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]

Senior level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Part-time

Job function

• Health Care Provider

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care