Prescribing Paramedic Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

a. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) within the organisation.

b. 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.

c. Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action.

d. Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.

e. Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person.

f. Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care.

g. Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to the PCNs social prescribing service and, where appropriate, other community or voluntary services.

h. Be able to:

Perform specialist health checks and reviews within their scope of practice and in line with local and national guidance

ECGs - interpret

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 in line with local and national guidance.

i. Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain services (e.g., monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients).

j. Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day GP home visit for the network

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Completed a two-year consolidation of learning period when a newly qualified paramedic.
• Completed further three years experience as a band 6 (or equivalent) paramedic and attained Level 7 capability in paramedic areas of practice.
• Completed and been formally signed off within the clinical pillar competencies of the Advanced Clinical Practice Framework.
• Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, PDGs, NICE and local clinical guidelines and care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.
• Able to manage undifferentiated undiagnosed condition and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action
• Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation and complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.
• Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person.
• Have completed the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care, for example first contact practitioners and the personalised care roles.

Desirable

• Previously worked in general practice or within a PCN setting.

Qualifications

Essential

• Is educated to Masters degree level in relevant area of expertise.
• Has the capabilities of advanced clinical practice set out in section one of the Multi-professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England.
• Is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Independent prescribing qualification.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

The Ridgeway Surgery

Address

175 The Ridgeway

Sedgley

Dudley

West Midlands

DY3 3UH

Employer's website

https://www.ridgewaysurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)