Job summary
Are you an experienced
Paramedic looking for a new direction in your career?
Are you passionate and
committed to delivering advanced level patient centred care? If so, we have an
exciting new role within our Primary Care Network (PCN).
There is an established First
Contact Practitioner Paramedic Home Visiting Service which we are looking to
expand and recruit for.
Our aim is that the team
supports and leads on the proactive care of those patients that are high risk
of admission, such as decompensating frailty, End of Life and/or long-term
conditions, by providing routine and urgent visits.
Your role will be varied and
wide-ranging, including same-day consultations and home visits, supported by an
experienced team of dedicated clinicians, telephone triage and consultations.
Main duties of the job
As a First Contact Practitioner Paramedic you will be seeing individuals with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems. Based on patient history, clinical assessment and a comprehensive physical and functional examination, utilising expert knowledge and clinical judgement, you will be able to identify the potential diagnosis. You will also be able to assess, plan and implement programmes of care, in liaison with colleagues, to support the individual.
About us
Chorley Central PCN comprises
of 6 GP surgeries and covers a population of over 54,000 patients and are
expanding our team to meet the needs of our population. Our Model of Care will
see you working alongside a multi-disciplinary team of experienced GPs, Nurse
Practitioners, Clinical Pharmacists.
The 6 practices include:
The Chorley Surgery
Library House Surgery
Regent House Surgery
Granville House Surgery
Coppull Medical Practice
Euxton Medical Centre
Job description
Job responsibilities
The PCN First Contact Practitioner Paramedic at Chorley Central PCN is a
registered paramedic with post graduate qualifications who acts within
their professional boundaries.
The post holder aspires to provide a
responsive, safe, effective and caring service to patients requires initial
history taking, clinical and functional assessment, diagnosis, treatment and
evaluation of care. They will demonstrate safe, clinic decision making and
expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients within their
own homes.
Along with using a medical model to assess and
diagnose for acute medical conditions, the clinician will use a holistic
approach to consider methods and interventions to prevent recurrence of
problems and complete referrals to appropriate members of the wider
multidisciplinary team.
The clinician
will participate in, and influence efforts, across health and social care to
shape multi-disciplinary pathways designed to support patient choice, improve
quality of life, promote self-management and assure early intervention through
proactive provision of care in or as close to the patients’ own home as
possible.
The post holder must own their own vehicle as home visits will also be an
expectation.
The post
holder will actively support integrated neighbourhood ways of working to
support standardisation for efficiency purposes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The PCN First Contact Practitioner Paramedic at Chorley Central PCN is a
registered paramedic with post graduate qualifications who acts within
their professional boundaries.
The post holder aspires to provide a
responsive, safe, effective and caring service to patients requires initial
history taking, clinical and functional assessment, diagnosis, treatment and
evaluation of care. They will demonstrate safe, clinic decision making and
expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients within their
own homes.
Along with using a medical model to assess and
diagnose for acute medical conditions, the clinician will use a holistic
approach to consider methods and interventions to prevent recurrence of
problems and complete referrals to appropriate members of the wider
multidisciplinary team.
The clinician
will participate in, and influence efforts, across health and social care to
shape multi-disciplinary pathways designed to support patient choice, improve
quality of life, promote self-management and assure early intervention through
proactive provision of care in or as close to the patients’ own home as
possible.
The post holder must own their own vehicle as home visits will also be an
expectation.
The post
holder will actively support integrated neighbourhood ways of working to
support standardisation for efficiency purposes.
Person Specification
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
Experience
Essential
- Completed a two-year consolidation of learning period as a newly qualified paramedic
- Completed further three years experience as a band 6 (or equivalent) 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
- Working at Level 6 capability in paramedic area of medicine
- 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
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered paramedic with HCPC
- Educated to a degree/diploma level in Paramedicine or equivalent
- Evidence of continual learning and professional development
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
Other Requirements
Essential
- Flexibility to work outside of core office hours
- 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
Person Specification
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
Experience
Essential
- Completed a two-year consolidation of learning period as a newly qualified paramedic
- Completed further three years experience as a band 6 (or equivalent) 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
- Working at Level 6 capability in paramedic area of medicine
- 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
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered paramedic with HCPC
- Educated to a degree/diploma level in Paramedicine or equivalent
- Evidence of continual learning and professional development
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
Other Requirements
Essential
- Flexibility to work outside of core office hours
- 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
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
