Paramedic Practitioner

Job responsibilities

• They will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) within the PCN.
• They will assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.
• They will advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to the PCN’s social prescribing service, and where appropriate, other community or voluntary services.

They will be able to:

• perform specialist health checks and reviews within their scope of practice and in line with local and national guidance
• perform and interpret ECGs perform investigatory procedures as required, and
• undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, and other samples within their scope of practice, and within line of local and national guidance.
• They will support the delivery of ‘anticipatory care plans’ and lead certain services (e.g. monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients).
• They will provide an alternative model to urgent and same day GP home visit for the network.
• They will communicate at all levels across organisations ensuring that an effective, person-centred service is delivered.
• They will communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required.
• They will maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient health care and registration with the practice.
• Communicate effectively with patients, and where appropriate family members and their carers, where applicable, complex and sensitive information regarding their physical health needs, results, findings, and treatment choices.

General

• Ensure that all activities are monitored and evaluated.
• Attend internal meetings as required.
• Work in accordance with PCN policies, including the equal opportunities policy and practice.
• Attend any training courses and supervision sessions as required.
• Work with due regard to the PCN Health and Safety Policy, ensuring that all practices and procedures are undertaken in accordance with issued guidelines.
• Undertake any other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time.
• To take part in the COVID vaccination programme as required.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered paramedic
• Evidence of continual learning and professional
• development

Skills

Essential

• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information
• effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email
• and face to face
• Willingness to work flexibly to deliver safe and effective
• healthcare
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills,
• organisational skills with the ability to constructively
• challenge the view and practices of managers and
• clinicians
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word
• processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple
• plans and reports
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Ability to promote best practice regarding all
• pharmaceutical matters
• Effective time management (planning and organising)
• Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience
• and work well under pressure

Desirable

• Good clinical system IT knowledge of EMIS

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and
• organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
• Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity
• Able to get along with people from all backgrounds and
• communities, respecting lifestyles and diversity
• Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity
• Flexible and cooperative
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when
• working with individuals
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and
• procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone
• working, information governance and health and safety

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of two years working as an advanced
• paramedic
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general
• practice. An appreciation of the nature of primary care
• prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and
• strategies for improving prescribing
• Awareness of telephone triage assessment
• Management of common minor injuries/illnesses
• Clinical examination skills
• Knowledge of needs of patients with long-term conditions
• Management of long term (chronic) conditions

Desirable

• Clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of
• evidence-based healthcare
• Understanding of the mentorship process
• An appreciation of the new NHS landscape including the
• relationships between individual practices, PCNs and the
• commissioners
• Experience of clinical governance including audit
• Broad knowledge of general practice

Additional

Essential

• Flexibility to work outside of core office hours including evenings up until 8pm and weekends
• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the
• locality on a regular basis, including visiting people in
• their own home

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).