Paramedic - Experienced

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Duties

• Assess, diagnose, and manage patients presenting with a wide range of acute, minor illness, and chronic conditions.
• Undertake same-day face to face or telephone appointments.
• Provide home visits for housebound or frail patients, as appropriate.
• Request, interpret, and act on appropriate investigations (e.g., blood tests, ECGs, urinalysis).
• Prescribe (if qualified) or recommend treatments in line with scope of practice and local protocols.
• Support the management of long-term conditions (e.g., asthma, COPD, diabetes, hypertension).
• Work collaboratively with GPs, practice nurses, pharmacists, and other allied health professionals to ensure continuity of care.
• Recognise and manage urgent and emergency presentations, escalating or referring when appropriate.
• Promote health education, disease prevention, and self-care strategies.

Professional Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate, timely, and complete clinical records in line with practice policies.
• Adhere to clinical governance, safeguarding, and infection control protocols.
• Engage in continuous professional development (CPD) and reflective practice.
• Participate in practice meetings, audits, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to the training and mentoring of students, junior staff, or colleagues.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Essential
• Qualified Paramedic registered with the HCPC.
• Full Clean Driving License.
• Significant post-qualification experience, ideally within urgent care,
• primary care, or emergency medicine.
• Ability to work autonomously, with strong clinical decision-making
• skills.
• Work Independently.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and patient engagement
• skills.
• Sound understanding of clinical governance, safeguarding, and risk
• management.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

Desirable

• Desirable
• Independent prescribing qualification or working towards.
• Experience working in a GP surgery or Primary Care Network.
• Additional training in minor illness, long-term condition
• management, or advanced assessment.
• Familiarity with primary care IT systems (e.g., EMIS, SystmOne).
• BLS Instructing.

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

Suttons Medical Group

Address

Sutton Medical Group

Trafalgar Square

Long Sutton

Spalding

Lincolnshire

PE12 9HB

Employer's website

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